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Artisan beers – beer reviews and X Factor
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November 24th, 2009American, Beer Reviews, Comment, IPA, Multigrain Beers, Stout & PorterIt all started with an off the cuff comment on Twitter (as so much does these days!). I mentioned on my personal twitter account that I had ’some cracking beers in’ but wasn’t really in the mood for sitting with pencil and notebook. Not that I don’t enjoy sitting with an artisan beer disecting all of the tastes and fancy words I can conjure up, but I simply wanted to forget all that and just get lost in the beer.
Because I was contemplating some fantastic beers that I’d been waiting to open for some time. These were beers I’d heard about, read about and almost dreamed about opening.

Paradox Isle of Arran pours very, very dark
A few other beer bloggers wearily heading back from beer festivals and Scoop singing the praises of BrewDog’s RipTide I headed for the beer cupboard but all I really wanted were my staple favourites to drink, beers I can always fall back on as discussed in my post on emergency beers – a Goose Island Honkers, a Brooklyn Lager and a Peroni Gran Reserva were exactly what I needed. But with encouragement from other beer tweeps and Reluctant I crumbled! Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: atlanic ipa, bashah, BrewDog, IPA, little creatures, paradox, rip tide, stone, tasting, twitter, x factor

