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News & Updates
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| 09-Mar-10 | Event |
The Ship and Mitre, Dale Street, Liverpool is holding a Belgian beer festival from 24th-28th March. |
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| 18-Feb-10 | Closure |
Le Trappiste closes After a long running legal wrangle with its landlord, Altrincham's Le Trappiste has ceased trading. According to a message on Le Trappiste website, owner Martin Matthews hopes to re-open in a new venue. |
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| 09-Dec-09 | Closure |
City Lowlander closes Lowlander Grand Café called in the administrators at the end of October, with the result that the City site in Creechurch Lane has closed. The ever-popular original Lowlander in Drury Lane remains open as a new company. |
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| 17-Nov-09 | Reopening |
Magpie and Crown resumes business After just three weeks, following local support and having resolved at least some of the issues which resulted in its closure, Brentford's best pub is once again operational. |
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| 11-Nov-09 | Closure |
Magpie and Crown closes One of west London's finest pubs, The Magpie and Crown on Brentford High Street, closed its doors at the end of October as a result of a huge rent hike. It will be sorely missed by locals and GBG tourists who enjoyed the ever-changing roster of cask ales, foreign beers and homely atmosphere. |
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| 02-Sep-09 | Closure |
Microbar shuts Battersea's finest specialist beer bar is no longer. Sometime in the last few weeks it mutated into The Ink Rooms, an agreeable tattoo-themed lounge bar which still boasts a beer list worth traversing a few zones for. As of now the only Belgians are Orval, Delirium and a couple from St Bernardus. A few more and it will get its own listing. Worth keeping an eye on. [14 Lavender Hill, SW11] |
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| 30-Jun-09 | Event |
The Great British Beer Festival CAMRA's national showcase takes place from 4th-8th August at Earls Court and as always Belgium will be well represented in the ever-growing Bières Sans Frontières section. Full info can be found here. |
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| 30-Jun-09 | Event |
Ealing Beer Festival The 20th EBF takes place in Walpole Park, London W5 from Wed 8th to Sat 11th July. Admission £3 (CAMRA members £2). |
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| 30-Jun-09 | Site update | RSS feed added (main pages only). Not sure what this is? This site is a good place to start. | |
| 30-Jun-09 | News | The sixth edition of Good Beer Guide Belgium was published earlier this month. As well as the usual overhaul of the café and brewery listings, the latest edition of Tim Webb's essential work of reference includes more general travel info, maps of the larger towns, and an assortment of articles on the current state of the Belgian beer scene. The book can be ordered from here. | |