Our London beer guide is off to a flying start!
"Beers of the world, unite!"
The UNOB slogan
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Please note: While we expand our UK coverage, the definitions of terms like "London" and "Manchester" will be rather fluid! When we eventually have Delegates in more locations, we'll be more geographically accurate with where we list beers.
BEER REVIEW
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Nathaniel Tapley reserves judgement on Brakspear Triple until the fifth or six bottle. Wise man!
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Alastair Hooley breaks his good beer duck with Jeffrey Hudson Bitter, or JHB to its friends
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Ashley Cotter-Cairns gets to grips with Wells Bombardier Premium bitter and finds it, well, somewhat too sweet...
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Nathaniel explains why he probably won't be buying Fuller's ESB again anytime soon
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Nathaniel Tapley makes a dinner date with The Beer To Dine For. Yes, it's really called that...
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HALLOWEEN SPECIAL! Nathaniel 'Night-mare' Tapley normally tells bees to buzz off, but BeeWyched Honeyed ale has turned him sweet on the idea
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12 BEERS OF CHRISTMAS! Ashley Cotter-Cairns reviews Lump of Coal Dark Holiday stout and has his Christmas cheer well and truly increased
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12 BEERS OF CHRISTMAS! Ashley Cotter-Cairns doesn't deserve his bottle of Bad Elf ale, he really doesn't
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12 BEERS OF CHRISTMAS! Nathaniel Tapley suggests avoiding Young's Christmas Pudding ale, unless you have a penchant for robot cloves
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12 BEERS OF CHRISTMAS! Ashley Cotter-Cairns would like to give Warm Welcome Nut Brown ale another chance to impress him sometime
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12 BEERS OF CHRISTMAS! You won't say "Bah Humbug!" to Bah Humbug ale, says Kate Dalgleish
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Ashley Cotter-Cairns says Charles Wells IPA is as disappointing as shop-bought garlic bread
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Nathaniel Tapley finds drinking a dark lager very odd indeed, even if it is Sainsbury's Taste the Difference Franconian-style Dark lager from the Meantime microbrewery
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Ashley Cotter-Cairns says Wadworth 6X has good history and potential to be a great session beer
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READER REVIEW! John Davis of Louisiana, USA says Bass Ale is one of the UK's great exports
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Young's Champion is anything but dry, says Ashley Cotter-Cairns, but don't let that stop you from making it the foundation of a boozy summer picnic
Innis & Gunn Original is certainly original, says Nathaniel Tapley, but it's also pretty damn tasty
BREWERY, BAR AND BREWPUB REVIEWS
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Ashley Cotter-Cairns promises Lord of the Rings fans a genuine Shires experience at The Saracen's Head, Kings Langley
ARTICLES AND RANTS
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Douglas Gloag joins Ashley Cotter-Cairns in reporting on the London Drinker 2007 Beer Festival in Camden Centre, London
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Alastair Hooley sees green at the Ealing Beer Festival 2007
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Alastair comes over all poetic at the Battersea Beer Festival 2008, his new local event
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Alastair Hooley visited the London Drinker 2008 Beer Festival and lived to tell the tale!
ABOUT THE LONDON DELEGATES
Meet our London beer guides!
Nathaniel Tapley makes his living from comedy, but is deadly serious about enjoying real beer...
... and Alastair Hooley is so fanatical, he hosts a forum abour real ale.
If proof were needed of the UNOB's growing influence globally, then step forward not one, but TWO Beer Delegates from old London Town!
We've attracted brewmasters, journalists, chefs and even the unemployed before, but never a comedian: at least not until Nathaniel Tapley joined our ranks.
He writes and performs with a travelling group and has been busy treading the most unforgiving of boards recently, but has faithfully promised to be providing you with more of the biting wit and wisdom you'll already have enjoyed in his Brakspear Triple review.
Meanwhile, during a recent trip to the London Drinker beer festival, your Secretary-General accosted several groups of unsuspecting drinkers in the hope of bringing in more Delegates to the fold.
Although it's taken at another event, this picture of Alastair Hooley is a pretty accurate replica of the look he gave Ash while standing at the bar!
But instead of dousing him in warm beer and spittle and shrugging off our advances, Alastair bravely put himself on the line and is now our second London Beer Delegate to be appointed!
It must have been fated for us to meet, as Alastair is a big fan of 'proper' beer and also runs the Real Ale Forum.
It's a genuine pleasure to finally appoint Delegates based in my home country. Read on for their application speeches!
Your proposal speech, Nathaniel
Fellow beer drinkers, since the dawn of time
mankind has gathered
together, in companionship,
to devote serious time to
getting smashed. And, through
getting smashed, to the betterment of relationships and the fullness of
life.
Beer has started no
wars. People who are lying on the floor dribbling start no
wars. Drink
beer. End war.
Your application proposal, Alastair
After giving up gnat's urine masquerading as beer about ten years ago, I've been passionate about real ale – passionate about the breweries that make the stuff and passionate about the pubs that sell it. Oh, and passionate about drinking it, too.
I live in London and try to get to every London-based beer festival and a few outside London. I regularly go on pub visits and know a lot of the best real ale pubs in the city.
I believe I'm more than qualified for the esteemed post of Beer Delegate.
Jolly nice to have you both in our organisation!
Wannabee a UNOB Delegate?
Think you have what it takes to write about great beer? Don't be shy! Come to our Beer Delegates page and apply!
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