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Dreaming of You — Colbier Brew Co. in Bootle, Merseyside
Rebecca Crowe
Dreaming of You — Colbier Brew Co. in Bootle, Merseyside
Rebecca Crowe

I’m frantically searching the internet, flipping between Instagram profiles of local pubs and beer review app Untappd. Why? Well. The release of Colbier Brew Co.’s first white stout, Falsetto, has just been announced, and it’s quickly running out in the local pubs around Liverpool.

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Dreaming of You — Colbier Brew Co. in Bootle, Merseyside
Rebecca Crowe
Dreaming of You — Colbier Brew Co. in Bootle, Merseyside
Rebecca Crowe
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David Bailey's Just Beer Things #30 — The Best Beer
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William Georgi
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Dreaming of You — Colbier Brew Co. in Bootle, Merseyside
Dreaming of You — Colbier Brew Co. in Bootle, Merseyside
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Never Break the Chain — Chiltern Brewery and Bodger’s Barley Wine
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The Pellicle Podcast Ep86 — In Simpatico with Manchester’s Blackjack Brew Co.
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The Pellicle Podcast Ep85 — How Thornbridge Saved The Burton Union
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The Other Side of the Sky — Steam Machine Brewing Company, Newton Aycliffe, County Durham
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The Pellicle Podcast Ep81 — Modern Scottish Beer
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The Pellicle Podcast Ep80 — Nick Scarffe and Elizabeth Townsend of Kerroo Brewing
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The Pellicle Podcast Ep79 — Time Hopping with Siren Craft Brew
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A Scanner Dreckly — The Life and Legacy of St. Austell Proper Job IPA
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The Pellicle Podcast Ep77 — Will Evans of Manchester Union Brewery
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The Pellicle Podcast Ep76 — Dan Wye of Fyne Ales Origins
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The Pellicle Podcast Ep75 — Mark Welsby of The Runaway Brewery, Stockport
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The Metropolis Model — German Kraft Brewery in Elephant & Castle, London
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The Pellicle Podcast Ep73 — Theakston Brewery in Masham, North Yorkshire
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Amongst the Sharks and the Treasure — Jump Ship Brewing in Midlothian, Scotland
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A Torch In The Infinite — Burton Bridge Brewery in Burton upon Trent, Staffordshire
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Positive Tension — Roosters Brewery in Harrogate, North Yorkshire
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The Pellicle Podcast Ep63 — Tim Dewey of Timothy Taylor’s Brewery
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Visions Of The Things To Be — How Mash Gang is Breaking the Alcohol Free Mould
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Appetite for Disruption — The Rise (and Rise) of Anspach and Hobday’s London Black
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Giant Steps — Lacada Cooperative Brewery in Portrush, Northern Ireland
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