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A trip round Lambic Land

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So I was over in Belgium this weekend to pick up lambic for my lambic fest this Sunday. We stayed over in Lille and were up about 6:30 and headed over to Boon.
We pull up into the driveway of the brewery which is also Frank’s(Frank Boon the owner of Boon) home. He takes us through [...]

Meet the brewer – Moonlight and Bear Republic @ The Rake

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Saterday the 10th October we’ll have 5 moonlight and bear republic beers on tap. The brewer Brian will be about all day to chat to. Some of these beers are pritty rare, like just 10 rates on ratebeer.
Also we should have Nanny state on cask!
 
chin chin
 
Tom
 
PS: Im away to Turkey on holiday for a week [...]

The love of lagers

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Iv been wanting to talk about this for a while.  For the last year iv been mad about lagers. I walk into a bar and look to see what lagers they have before cask ales, in hope that i’ll find a hidden gem. Fair do’s this very rarely happens, especially in britian where 99.999% of [...]

Lambic Fest @ The Rake 1-5th November

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16 unblended lambics and fruit lambics on draught and gravity straight from the cask! From Cantillon, Girardain, Boon, Lindemans and hanssens, plus some bottles.
Not to be missed!!!!
Tom

Cellaring Cask Ale

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Cellaring cask ale is something iv been doing for many years now and its possibly one of the most rewarding parts of my career in the pub trade. There’s no specific art to cellaring cask ale, its just something you get a feel for and begin to understand it over the course of time. However [...]

Brewdog Tokyo*

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When I heard this was coming out I was mad excited, as the previous Tokyo was fantastic being one of my favourite  imperial stouts to date. James (the brewdog director) had posted on his blog updates as this was fermenting and guided us through how it was getting on, up until when it got to [...]

My First Post

Hello
My name is Tom Cadden, i live and work in London, England; where i am deputy manager in The Rake.  As my first post on my blog i thought id better give the low down on what you can expect here.
My plan is to blog about the general british brewing scene, though i’ll probably primarily [...]