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So, the World Cup has started, we'll have most of the games on in the back room if you want to watch them with some decent beer. We've made the England games ticket only so we can manage numbers and the first two group games are now sold out. There are still a few tickets left for the game against Wales you can grab them here. The main room will be football free so if you don't want to watch the football don't worry, you can escape.First up, Whale Sharks! Verdant's second most desirable DIPA. These will be going out...

It's a big week... We have a big event this weekend, we're hosting a battle of the regions tap takeover in association with O'Briens Beer Cafe (Holmfirth). They've selected Sureshot to represent The North and we've chosen Nothing Bound to represent The Midlands. There will be four beers from each brewery pouring simultaneously at both venues and a live online poll for you to vote for your favourite brewery. Nothing Bound have provided us with a couple of exclusive kegs that won't be available anywhere else so you don't want to miss it! Right, it's tough to decide what we...

It's quiz night this week, as usual there's a cash prize and bar tab up for grabs. You can book your spot here. Right let's get this out of the way: The first Christmas beers are here (they actually arrived a couple of weeks ago but we couldn't bear to release them in October, it just felt wrong) Brew York's annual Christmas beers! Three of 'em. Two stouts and a sour all with a festive twist. A couple of breweries celbrating birthdays this week; Spanish brewery Basqueland are celebrating their 7th birthday by collaborating with some of Europe's best breweries....

Where to start?! There's some BIG beers this week you can tell Christmas is coming. Stouts...? Newbarns' much hyped collaboration with Swedish desert-beer gods Omnipollo is here. We're very excited to see how Newbarns' trademark no-nonsense style has blended with Omnipollo's all-nonsense style. Newbarns were obviously in charge of naming... Complicated Dark Beer might be the world's first adjunct free pastry stout and comes in at 9.5%. There's also some Desert in a Can from Amundsen, Brew York's Imperial Tonkoko, and a rare Verdant stout for you to get excited about. Collaboration watch: We already told you about the Newbarn's...

Here's what we have for you this week... New Brew York: State Of Mind barrel aged beers! We have two versions of The Ghost Dimension, a beer brewed with Fierce to celebrate their 5th birthday last year, a 13% Mexican Mole stout containing four types of chillies. Some of it spent twelve months in Speyside whisky barrels and the rest spent 15 months in Tequila barrels. As usual these beers are very special and fairly limited so be fast if you want to try them.This week's collaboration watch is a quick one: The big one this week is the much-hyped...