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yahtzeelad.bsky.social
One from the vaults. The fade of its original brightness reveals a beautiful malt backbone that carries the now milder tartness so well. Glad I have three more!
Otterbank Brewing mixed fermentation saison
December 13, 2025 at 9:50 PM
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manmademoon.bsky.social
Grading something very special-
December 10, 2025 at 10:27 AM
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stazjohnson.bsky.social
I got this in the post today. My cover artwork, some terrific new strips by the likes of Steve White & David Roach & some really fun classic British strips.
November 29, 2025 at 6:53 PM
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gwladrugby.bsky.social
#RoadToWRUin Day 12:

The WRU are skint. This is clearly from the Annual Report which they sent out on Friday night, 19 days later than they’re supposed to under their own governance rules.

Executive pay went up 40% in the last reporting period.

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Are you having fun yet?
Just before 7pm last night, a day and a half before Sunday morning’s WRU Annual General Meeting (AGM), the Union’s annual report was released to its constituent clubs. You may think that is unreaso…
gwladrugby.wordpress.com
November 30, 2025 at 8:49 AM
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patto1ro.bsky.social
More Carlsberg correspondence. Including a description of 20-year old London Porter.
barclayperkins.blogspot.com/2025/11/more...
More Carlsberg correspondence
Or, more accurately, Jacobsen correspondence. This time, from Jacobsen Senior to Jacobsen junior. Dated 22nd March 1869. After some time at ...
barclayperkins.blogspot.com
November 27, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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pilotbeer.co.uk
Did you miss it while it was gone there? No? Then just don't go back.
pilotbeer.co.uk Pilot @pilotbeer.co.uk · Nov 2
Quoting ourselves here, but it’s absolutely insane to us that anyone still uses Twitter. You don't have to. You can just stop. It was a *massive* part of our growth but you can just let it go. However important your business is to you, it's less important than this:
implausibleblog.bsky.social Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · Nov 2
Elon Musk, "These lovely small towns in England, Scotland and Ireland, they've been living their lives quietly. They're like hobbits"

"And so one day, 1,000 people show up in your village of 500 and start raping the kids"

"This has now happened, God knows how many times in Britain"
November 18, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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2000ad.bsky.social
Have the Judges finally gone too far? The 2000 AD Annual 2026 is out TOMORROW!

Grab your copy now - before it's CANCELLED!! https://bit.ly/4prqPNw
November 11, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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boakandbailey.bsky.social
BLOG POST: “It’s still a breathtaking to stand on that beach. To hear water lapping over stone, intensified by the passing of passenger boats, and the cries of seabirds. And to sense that beneath your feet, no doubt, are the stems of a million clay pipes.”

boakandbailey.com/2025/10/the-...
The Prospect of Whitby and pubs as genus loci | Boak & Bailey
Beyond their functional purpose pubs also play an important role in preserving the spirit of the places where they’re found – as their genus loci.
boakandbailey.com
October 29, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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ciderreview.bsky.social
Westons' statement that "perry is dead" dismisses centuries-old craftsmanship and cultural significance. Barry (@barmas.bsky.social) argues that education, not erasure, is essential.

With reference to
@beesononbooze.bsky.social’s recent article.
Editorial: Perry Is Not Dead.
Westons’ statement that “perry is dead” dismisses centuries-old craftsmanship and cultural significance. Barry argues that education, not erasure, is essential.
cider-review.com
October 24, 2025 at 9:24 AM
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steven-l-clark.bsky.social
vinepair.com/articles/wor...
Beneath the Bines: The Multicultural Roots of the Pacific Northwest Hop Harvest
”My dad gave me advice 60 years ago: The day that you think you’re any better than the lowest man on the job is the day you start going backwards.” Bill Coleman represents the fifth of seven generatio...
vinepair.com
October 21, 2025 at 9:20 PM
yahtzeelad.bsky.social
This year’s apples feeling the pressure!
October 19, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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larsga.bsky.social
Last week a paper came out, showing that chimpanzees daily consume significant amounts of alcohol. A thread where I walk through why the paper matters, then the paper itself.
Screenshot of: "S c i e n c e A d v A n c e S | R e S e A R c h A R t i c l e1 of 10B I O L O G I C A L A N T H R O P O L O G YEthanol ingestion via frugivory in wild chimpanzeesAleksey Maro 1,2*, Aaron A. Sandel 3, Bi Z. A. Blaiore4,5, Roman M. Wittig5,6,John C. Mitani7, Robert Dudley1,8Human attraction to alcohol may derive from an evolutionary association between ethanol and fruits consumed byanimals in nature. Fermentative yeasts are widespread in the terrestrial biosphere, and simple carbohydrates un-derpinning ethanol production are commonplace within fruits. We determined ethanol concentrations withinfruits representing a substantial portion of the diet of our closest living relatives, the chimpanzees. Ripe fruit pulpfrom 20 angiosperm species in Côte d’Ivoire and Uganda contained an average value of 0.31 (± 0.21 SD) and 0.32%(± 0.20) ethanol (weight/weight), respectively, as scaled by annual chimpanzee feeding time per species at eachsite. Chimpanzees typically eat ~4.5 kilograms of fruit per day, corresponding to an estimated ethanol ingestion of14 grams (±9), or the equivalent of 1.4 (±0.9) standard drinks by international standards. These findings are con-sistent with the hypothesis that ethanol is widespread within tropical fruits and that modern predisposition to al-cohol consumption derives from ancestral exposure to this psychoactive substance among frugivorous primates."
September 24, 2025 at 12:05 PM
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ditzkoff.bsky.social
Robert Redford playing a gentle incarnation of death, coming for a frightened old woman in The Twilight Zone episode "Nothing in the Dark" (1962). An extraordinary performance then, terribly bittersweet today
September 16, 2025 at 1:28 PM
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craic.beer
There’ll be a Craic Beer Community outing to O Brother on the 11th of October! We’ll be doing a brewery tour and having a few pints in their swanky new taproom!

All are welcome, from level 5 beer nerds to total newbies!

#DrinkIrish #DrinkLocal #CraicBeer #WicklowBeer #irishbeer
September 10, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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nivenj1.bsky.social
a prophet is without honour....
jzbun.bsky.social jzbun.bsky.social @jzbun.bsky.social · Sep 4
@nivenj1.bsky.social Read the Fuck it List when first released and loved it, funny revenge fiction. However, I've just re-read it and WTF! You predict the MAGA shit-show that is now the USA... The rise of ICE, detention centres, mass deportation, Roe v Wade etc. etc. Genius. Nostra-fucking-darmus.
September 5, 2025 at 8:17 AM
yahtzeelad.bsky.social
I know it might seem weird but this is so good that I actually feel like weeping for the current state of the brewing industry and the challenges the true pioneers have to overcome. Unbelievable beer from some unbelievably talented brewers @landandlabour.bsky.social @widestreetbrewery.bsky.social
August 29, 2025 at 9:21 PM
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stazjohnson.bsky.social
Inks, w.i.p
August 15, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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president.ie
Statement by President Michael D. Higgins on recent attacks on members of the Indian Community in Ireland president.ie/en/media-lib...
Statement by President Michael D. Higgins on recent attacks on members of the Indian Community in Ireland | President of Ireland
Welcome to the website of the President of Ireland.
president.ie
August 12, 2025 at 1:08 PM
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2000ad.bsky.social
Just watching the news... oh wait, no, I'm reading a comic book from [checks notes] 2006 shop.2000ad.com/catalogue/XB...
Narration: "This outrage was the final straw. With the president's blessing, Fargo outlined his 'new deal' to Congress." Fargo: "The law has failed us! Trials take years to reach the courts and when they do is there a jury in this land that dares to convict? Our proud nation is being destroyed by the very principles we once held so dear! If our juries are too frightened to act, if our courts are powerless we must find another way! It is time to take the judges out of the courts and put them onto the streets! We must choose good men and women trained to administer retribution fairly and without delay. We must arm them with the power to dispense instant justice!" Senator #1: "Abandon due process? Never!" Senator #2: "It's unconstitutional!" Senator #3: "We won't approve it, fargo!" Senator #4: "It's a step too far!" Narrator: "It was to take more than two years before the last protections enshrined in the constitution could be scrapped, to be replaced by a stringent new judicial code. Meanwhile Fargo pursued his task tirelessly, setting up centres across the nation to rapidly train the new breed of Judges. In time, academies would be established, where entrants, selected at the age of five, would spend many gruelling years learning to exercise their sweeping powers." Judge: "Sure is interesting, seeing all this old archive footage. Dredd: "It's interesting all right."
August 12, 2025 at 10:50 AM
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larsga.bsky.social
Very much a recurring subject for me, this: small nations struggling to continue to exist.

I guess because I feel so keenly what a tragedy it would be to lose them. Not only for them, but also for us.
July 3, 2025 at 7:18 PM
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davidjesudason.bsky.social
Read (and RT) about how the Patels beat racists and then supplied SE London with their Indian food

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June 11, 2025 at 8:47 AM
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happytoast.co.uk
"You draw pictures of other IPs" shouts the ai defender.
Yes, I do, but I don't simply process a version based on stolen data.
I dress MY characters up in outfits. I make MY versions of scenes. They come from pencil lines, biro and watercolour, not a calculated combination of stolen work.
May 24, 2025 at 9:08 PM
yahtzeelad.bsky.social
Is it stout weather or saison weather? Both have gone down well this evening!
A pint of homebrewed strong sweet stout pictured against a clear blue sky A glass of homebrewed strong saison next to its empty bottle, both of which are reflecting the setting sun.
May 18, 2025 at 7:44 PM
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davidjesudason.bsky.social
Here's an article I wrote on hops and sustainable practices for Wicked Leeks. (Is it, is it wicked? Well, I'll let you decide)

wickedleeks.riverford.co.uk/features/pin...
Pint pioneers: is this the future of sustainable beer?
The traditional use of hops in beer-making is necessarily wasteful – but a few new breweries are hoping to change that.
wickedleeks.riverford.co.uk
April 30, 2025 at 9:20 AM
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pilotbeer.co.uk
Good news, NASA have discovered your boyfriend’s homebrew lager.
An article about the discovery of DMS in space.
April 17, 2025 at 7:45 PM