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I made it along to the beer festival tonight. I wish I'd been able to go a little earlier and have a proper gossip with rochvelleth, but I was checking details for Amsterdam. But I saw Rochvelleth and Edith and had a great giggle; and recovered my rucksack; and said hi to a lot of other people I know; and ran into fiona_kitty; and discovered ed-from-poohsoc and Mark W. knew each other via the magic or real ale.

I'll probably go tomorrow too, although if I'm sensible enough to seek an early night I may go home or to the carlton for food instead.
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From timeplease and Charlie Stross,

"Finally, can some rich, beer-drinking Belgian entrepreneur please buy Liefmans Breweries, which were unfortunately declared bankrupt last Friday? It's a cash flow glitch, due to bugs in a new bottling line and scheduled duty payments; the brewery should be long-term viable as a business."

I can't vouch for the details, but I assume they're correct. Since the Carlton introduced their fruit beers they've become some of my favourites. What I don't know is the Liefmans Kreik and Framboisen are particularly good, or if there are other equally good fruit beers that are just as good, I just don't happen to have tried them. I think I have one bottle at home someone gave me, if it can't recover, I'll have to have a little wake.

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