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Rebel Belle
Taking over the taps! Last Saturday, I was lucky enough to go for a day trip to Bristol for the Tiny Rebel tap takeover at the Bag O’ Nails. Having tried only one of their beers previously, the...
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And the winner is…
Armed with tasting notes, I get stuck in! It was just my luck that the third annual British Columbia Beer Awards & The CAMRA Harvest Cask Festival happened to fall on Saturday October 18th my first...
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Caught in a Twit-Storm!
I can’t believe how quickly time has gone since I was in beautiful Vancouver but at least I can relive it by sharing it with you in my blog. One of the things I find most bizarre about Canada is that...
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What was your Alibi tonight?
Spoilt for choice! As you can probably tell by now, Vancouver is pretty spoilt for choice when it comes to beer and also cool places to drink. The Alibi Room was one of the bars I would say belongs on...
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What would your last beer be?
So I had actually thought that with all this cold weather I would find more time to get blogging. No chance! Christmas is hurtling towards us like it’s been shot from a catapult and this one may even...
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Jingle-Belles, Jingle-Belles….
As usual, the flights up North for Christmas really should have come with a health warning or possibly an in-flight detox on the return journey. There’s so much choice of real ales and craft beers in...
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Stouts for a snowy weekend
Salty stout! Last weekend I ended up venturing on yet another trip to Bristol for a bit of a rest from the dreariness of Southampton and a change of scenery. This time, the all important beer selected...
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Copenhagen Beer Celebration 2013
Last week I fulfilled a dream of many beer geeks and jetted across to Copenhagen, Denmark for the second edition of the Copenhagen Beer Celebration hosted by the esteemed ‘gypsy’ brewer himself,...
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Street drinking with style
The famous chalkboard As you may have noticed if you read my post about my most recent beery adventure, I did have more than a few amazing beers at the Copenhagen Beer Celebration but during my time in...
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Anyone got a spare rib?
The mysterious Brooklyn Dive Bar If you’ve been reading my blog since last year, you may be aware of the annual celebration of all things Barbecue that is Grillstock, Bristol – I go on about it enough....
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Swing when you’re winning (I hope!)
Continuing with my Game Day series, I’ll be raising a glass to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers who will be this weeks’ rivals and, like last weeks’ losers the Atlanta Falcons, they’re also divisional rivals...
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Bierebelle doesn’t have her head in the game
No Game day beer last week.Or the week before. I apologize. There are many reasons for this. 1) I was far too busy mocking the other half about his beloved Miami Dolphins’ defeat at the hands of my New...
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Biere Here (at last!)
Having been born and raised in York, the UK’s very finest city for beery pubs and general great nights out, my current home town of Southampton has always been a hugely miserable let-down. If you...
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Stella tasting at beer geek paradise
Hello readers! After a massively long absence I’m back! I don’t quite know why but fitting in time to blog has been a massive challenge in recent months. Now that it’s almost summer, I guess this is...
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Ride for your beer!
It’s a Saturday morning. It’s dark and the torrential rain is beating at my window. I see the clock hands creeping around to 6am and try to ignore it but the alarm goes and I know it’s time for action....
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Bierebelle on a bike
Hello and welcome to my new-look blog! You’ll notice I am no longer simply ‘Bierebelle’ but ‘Bierebelle…on a bike.’ Following in the tire prints of the lovely chappies at Hop On The Bike, I have...
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A hoppy home is a happy home
As a long-term renter, I sometimes think about what I would do if I owned my own place. Then I realize that all this gallivanting around, going to awesome places and doing awesome things means I’m too...
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The Revolution Is Now
As a leisure cyclist for 6 years and commuter for roughly three of those, I’m a relative newcomer to cycling as a Never thought watching one woman ride round a track for an hour would be this engaging!...
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Adventure Time
Enjoying a mid-ride snack :) As a self-confessed Strava addict, this weekend’s long bike ride was very much inspired by the current Adventure Challenge. Just in case you’re not familiar, Strava is a...
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No such thing as bad weather?
Rule #9// If you are out riding in bad weather, it means you are a badass. Period. Fair-weather riding is a luxury reserved for Sunday afternoons and wide boulevards. Those who ride in foul weather –...
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