Live & Dangerous: Live Beer Tasting at The European Beer Bloggers Conference #EBBC12

Below is a collection of my tweets and photos from the live tasting and beer blogging event at the European Beer Blogger’s Conference yesterday afternoon.  Let them serve as an example of why:

• tweets are of the moment, best tossed into the ether never to be seen again;
• I’m a woeful beer taster; and
• after 10 beers in an hour, I’m an even worse beer taster than I am normally.

#EBBC12 Phew, glad we've satisfied ourselves that bloggers can accept free beer prior to the free tasting session & Pilsner Urquell dinner.

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Nick (@Nickiquote) May 19, 2012

#EBBC12 Presumably the rep from Slaters will be in costume.

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Nick (@Nickiquote) May 19, 2012

#EBBC12 Live beer blogging. 10 beers in 50 minutes, or the conference hotel is rigged to blow. #Speedtasting

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Nick (@Nickiquote) May 19, 2012

#EBBC12 @TheLeedsBrewery Hellfire: Not a lot of aroma, pleasantly light dry lemon/lime bitterness. Almost Spriteish. @tandleman likes it.

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Nick (@Nickiquote) May 19, 2012

#EBBC12 @otleybrewingco Oxymoron BIPA. Big fresh mango aroma. Galena, Sorachi, Citra. Nice dry grapefruit bitterness, not too much "rubber".

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Nick (@Nickiquote) May 19, 2012

#EBBC12 @brainsbrewery Dark. Choc liquorice blackberry aroma. Slightly Cokey, quite restrained but just had a very hoppy beer so who knows?

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Nick (@Nickiquote) May 19, 2012

#EBBC12 @marblebrewers Earl Grey IPA. Tea added in FV. Nice light fresh mandarin aroma. Good full mouthfeel & citrus. Tea present but light.

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Nick (@Nickiquote) May 19, 2012

#EBBC12 @RoosterBrewing Baby Faced Assassin cask conditioned! All Citra, all lovely. Very Roosters, very Tom & Ol. Ace. lockerz.com/s/210205983

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Nick (@Nickiquote) May 19, 2012

#EBBC12 @GreatHeckBrew Stormin Norman cask US IPA. Big boozy bruiser of a hoppy cask beer but a pleasant pale malt. lockerz.com/s/210207354

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Nick (@Nickiquote) May 19, 2012

#EBBC12 @slatersales Light refreshing, some lemon and apple, not unlike the Hellfire, but FFS: that label. lockerz.com/s/210209034

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Nick (@Nickiquote) May 19, 2012

#EBBC12 @CamdenBrewery Hells. Lovely label. Slight banana aroma. Clean flavour. Slight banana finish. lockerz.com/s/210210343

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Nick (@Nickiquote) May 19, 2012

#EBBC12 @Adnams Ghost Ship. Smells like beer. Tastes like beer. Beery aftertaste. (Very pleasant light session type) lockerz.com/s/210211386

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Nick (@Nickiquote) May 19, 2012

#EBBC12 @innisandgunnuk Scottish Pale Ale (aged in oak casks). Rummy nose. Sweet taste. Maybe if I had some cheddar. lockerz.com/s/210213315

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Nick (@Nickiquote) May 19, 2012

#EBBC12 @HopZine quoted on an @Adnams flyer. What will this do for @BGRTRob's Wikio ranking? lockerz.com/s/210217067

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Nick (@Nickiquote) May 19, 2012

Thanks to all the brewers for the beer.  The conference was great fun and there will be further posts to come, even though they’ll be perfect examples of the type of incestuous intrablogger back-slapping that proper writers like Adrian Tierney-Jones warned us against at the conference itself.  Although Adrian didn’t use the term “back slapping”…