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Beer Olympics – Day 11
Country: Britain Beer: Hook Norton Haymaker So the Olympic Games are less than a week away from finishing up and I’ve only just realised I’ve yet to include a beer from Britain. That’s pretty slack,...
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Beer Olympics – Day 12
Country: Japan Beer: Sapporo One of the rules I set way back at the start of the Beer Olympics was that beers brewed under licence in another country still counted as coming from their country of...
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Beer Olympics – Day 13
Country: The Netherlands Beer: Grolsch The first time I ever had a Grolsch was way back in 1990 while I was in my third year at uni. Like most Arts students, I spent a fair bit (okay, most) of my time...
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Beer Olympics – Day 15
Country: Sri Lanka Beer: Sinha Stout Geography has never, ever been my strong suit. Whenever I see those newspaper stories that snigger about Americans’ inability to find some Middle East countries on...
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Beer Olympics – Day Eight
Country: Norway Beer: Smoke Without Fire by HaandBryggeriet I’ll always remember the first time I tried a HaandBryggeriet beer – because it was a stupid decision. That’s not a criticism … Continue...
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Beer Olympics – Day Nine
Country: Belgium Beer: Hoegaarden My wife is out tonight at dinner with friends, which is really the only time I’d be able to drink this beer in peace. She’s a mad Hoegaarden fan – she was drinking it...
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Beer Olympics – Day 10
Country: Indonesia Beer: Bintang It’s seldom a good sign if a product or business is best known as a T-shirt. Remember those Hard Rock Cafe T-shirts that were so cool in the early 1990s? I do, because...
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Beer Olympics – Day 14
Country: Scotland Beer: Brew Dog Punk IPA When it comes to weirdness in the brewing world, Scotland’s Brew Dog is one of the weirdest. Whether it’s making the world’s highest alcohol beer and then...
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Beer Olympics – Day 16
Country: Argentina Beer: Quilmes Lager The first time I tried this beer was as a result of being sucked in by Dan Murphy’s. The chain had a brochure that listed great beers of the world (which, in the...
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Beer Olympics – Day 18
Country: New Zealand Beer: Moa Methode To be honest, I’m so glad the Olympics are over. Glad because it now means I can be done with the Beer Olympics. It was way harder than I expected. For starters...
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