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    Matt Chinnery
    • May 22, 2015
    • 4 min

    Bordeaux Beer Shop, Bordeaux

    Since my love for good beer has increased to obsession level there have been a few people I have met that ooze of so much enthusiasm, passion, ambition, knowledge and likability that makes me realise that it’s more than what’s in a bottle. They make my enthusiasm wake up, they make me want to write more blog posts and try to turn people from their boring pint of mass produced beer to something more interesting, they make me love great beers more, people like Logan at Beaverto

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    Matt Chinnery
    • May 21, 2015
    • 8 min

    A Beer in Bordeaux

    In a country dominated by wine is there room for beer to shine? Bordeaux is famous for their wines but what does the city have for the beer lover? I had a chance to explore Bordeaux for a little while working there over a weekend. I wanted to find out what kind of beer scene there is in the mist of a French community big on wine. Bordeaux is quite a nice city and there are many sights to be seen around the city centre, in all honesty I didn’t enjoy Paris (possibly due to terr

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    Matt Chinnery
    • Aug 4, 2013
    • 2 min

    Gallia Paris Biere Blanche Absinthe beer review…

    The French are not really well known for their love of beer but preferring their love for wine instead, something I discovered on a trip to Paris last year. Gallia used to be found in Paris between 1890 and 1969, barely surviving the WWII the brewery gradually made less and less money till it was closed and knocked down in 1968 and a year later the beers had all vanished. 2010 and there is a rebirth… William and Jacques two French men who dreamed of brewing their own Parisian

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    ABOUT THE HALF PINT GENTLEMAN

    I am a (returning) beer blogger, (just about still) a member of the British Guild of Beer Writers, ex-committee member at the Leyton Orient Supporters Club, CAMRA member (through gritted teeth) and (Furloughed) Sales and Marketing Manager at East London Brewing Co.

     

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