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I have a theory that Guinness-brewed Sapporo is better than Peroni-brewed Asahi and Weihenstephan-brewed Kirin. Time to test that blind.

Twitter’s bleak advertising landscape is nothing but endless (unblockable) garbage from Temu, crypto scams, Chinese government propaganda or stuff like this…

Stopover at the border between Bavaria and Baden-Württemberg.

December 1945 was a good time for beer lovers to be in Manila. The war was over and the city was awash with Australian lager after U.S. Navy divers salvaged 1,000 cases from a sunken ship. Sailors could buy a case of 48 bottles for $1. #NationalBeerLoversDay

Great advert from The Record of the Irish Exhibition of Arts and Manufactures in 1882 for the Caffrey's brewery. Once again showing that Ireland brewed IPAs, Bitter and Mild ales in the past - albeit in relatively small quantities compared to porters ...

Remembering one of the best exchanges on this site

Off to Fuller's Brewery Chiswick for one of the big beer events of the year: the launch of Fuller's Vintage Ale 2024. Keen to taste & discover which malts & hops have been used this year.

Delicious deeds done cheap. A clutch of auction bargains scooped up ’cos nobody wanted them. Looking forward to trying all…

The tea is out there.

Some kind of liathróid ard na hÉireann.

The experience of arriving at Manchester Airport from Singapore is the nearest we can get to experiencing actual time travel from the future to the past, or to approximate viscerally the feeling of what it was like to return to East Germany from the West

Why did you leave your last job? The Phantom Menace? #Spaced

During the 1940s & 50s, flights flying between North America & Europe, because of aircraft's short fuel range in this era, had to use Gander airport for refueling. Here is a map depicting those air routes provided to us by directionoftravel.com

Am having a very disappointing run of new (to me, anyway) whiskeys. Makes me regret trying new things.