Still catching up with last year's beers. Then maybe I can start drinking some more.
[Though it would help if it didn't take me several weeks to get one of these written]

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By the end of February (yes, it was almost two weeks ago; I've been on holiday) I'd had just over a hundred beers this year. So this is a quick round-up of the best ones.

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...so I'm not an expert, but if you're running a con...

1. You might like to decide if programme participants are doing you a favour or the other way around. If the former, maybe actually asking them to do panels is good idea; soemting along the lines of "we'd like you to do X", as opposed to "your name is listed as being on a programme item".

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( Rub4Win... )

( Finished.. Now just the rest of the year's to write up... )

OK, probably not. But on to this photo of a sign outside Highbury & Islington station which I pass on a regular basis.


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( Still writing stuff up from August... )

George Gordon, test poet for NASA (National Absinthe Suppers Association), a man barely awake ( Read more... )

OK, I've mentioned the possibility of a beer of this name from BrewDog a couple of times, most recently about a month ago when I drunkenly questioned their head honcho at the share launch in London. He was being cagey (or wary of drunk people) but my best bet was that it existed and it was going to be an "ice beer" (frozen to get the alcohol ( Read more... )

( How bloody long ago was this holiday?... )