Links Page
Last Updated : 09/04/09 |
elow are the links that I've found useful in the fields of
scooping, planning European moves or ones I just like; enjoy.
Beer-related links.
General Links
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Description |
Beer & Rail | Diesel bashing and beer scooping... |
Beerme | Not always accurate or up-to-date but still a useful tool |
Paul Harrops' site | Paul Harrop's superb site which gives details of breweries in Gernany, Austria and more besides. |
Rick Pickup's Quaffale | Rick Pickup's excellent UK brewery website which will tell you all you want to know about any UK brewery - guaranteed! Now re-open for business... |
Ratebeer | American site which enables you to scoop your beers on a web-based system. Good for searching for that elusive beer you had in Croatia... The massive database of beers and breweries can be very useful. |
Ron Pattinson's | Ron's superb European beer drinking site which is an essential first call. If you want beer gen about a city, chances are it'll be here. |
Ohhh my Head... | A beer scooping "posse" from Sweden's site, hats off to them as they've tried a load of top beers from all over the world...Outside of the UK, Per Samuelsson must be the top man! |
Suffolk Scooper's site | Rob Gooding's scooping site. |
Czech Republic links
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Description |
Pivovarskı Klub | See what's currently on tap! |
Czech beer gen | Top site with all the Czech brewery gen with an English section too! |
Czech brewery map | Click on the brewery to get the gen! |
Zlı Časy | New scooping pub in Praha, click on the logo then "AKCE" to get the list. What is on the list isn't always what's on... |
Klub netopır | New scooping pub in Brno with some superb guest beers! "Připravujeme" means on next. |
German links
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Description |
Fässla, Bamberg | THE place to stay in Bamberg, bookable online. |
Hausbrauerei | Good site for German brewpubs |
Good beer guide to Germany | Frequently updated and full of useful info |
Italian links
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Description |
Microbirrifico | Superb Italian micro brewery site, lots of gen (in Italian) but click on the regions of the map to the left for lists of the brewpubs and micros. |
Football Pub, Rome | One of the world's finest scooping pubs! |
Maxbeer | A bit lacking and out of date but worth a look |
Mondobirra | Yet another decent beer site |
Argentinian links
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Description |
Argentinian Breweries | Think there's "nothing to eat in the Argentine but corned beef and cheap red wine?" think again... |
French links
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Description |
French beer map | Useful beer and brewery site. |
Bier Breizh | Beer gen from the Celtic bit |
Good beer gen | French beer gen is notoriously unreliable and dodgy, but this seems about the best I can find |
Belgian links
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Description |
Cantillon | The ultimate (for some) Lambic brewery. |
Belgian beer pub map | Does what it says, etc... |
USA links
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Description |
Gotham Imbiber | Alex Hall's superb site for New York |
Beermenus | See what's on in many NYC pubs; excellent stuff! |
Other countries links
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Description |
Austrian "brewery fuehrer" | Plenty of beer gen, although not sure about the title... |
Finland | In English, too |
Ireland | This "craft brewer" site is well worth a peek |
The Beer Nut | One of the only blogs I read, written with wit and a good amount of scooping mentality by an Irishman from Dublin. |
Poland | Very good Polish site with all brewers and brewpubs listed. Polish only, but it's not that difficult!!! |
Slovakia | Well put together and comprehensive site which enables you to see what's on in all the pubs albeit not "live". Excellent stuff. |
Switzerland | Bov's site, all you need to know |
Blog links
Given my hatred of most bloggers as they haven't a fucking clue what they're talking about, there's a reasonably decent list here to have a look at.
Link |
Description |
Reluctant Scooper | Well written and I even get a namecheck!! |
The Beer Nut | Irish scooper's blog, I like this a lot! |
Tandleman | A certain CAMRA bigwig from Middleton way's blog, and it's one of the few to be informed and written with any kind of authority. |
Tyson's blog | Very amusing blog from Bury, written with wit, imagination and a load of irony. Excellent. |
Travel-related links.
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Description |
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ACARS | Missed the number of that plane? No worries, you can find out what worked what on here - amazingly useful!!! | TOPS for planes!!! |
Aircraft Mileage Calculator | Now this is really sad... plane mileage! | |
Airline Codes | Lists of airport and plane type codes. | Want to know what a "BNT" is, or where "EZE" is? Look no further. |
Air Berlin | The best of the budget airlines if a little non-budget these days. | |
Airparks | One of the best airport parking services. | |
Amadeus | Travel agent's tool which is very useful. | Budget airlines too. |
Beer & Rail | Mixing up bashing and beers... | |
BMI Baby | BMI's budget option, a bit dearer than most of the others with fewer routes these days. | |
British European | Regional UK and some European cities. | |
Currency Conversion | A universal currency converter for just about any currency you can think of! | Up-to-the-minute rates on all manner of bizarre currencies. |
DB trip query page | Works throughout Europe, don't look anywhere else for this gen! | |
easyJet | The big orange. | |
Germanwings | Part of Lufthansa but very cheap. | |
Metros | Subway and metro gen. | |
Pink Elephant parking | Stansted long-stay. | |
Ryanair | In our experience, undeserved of their bad reputation. | "Riotscare" as they are affectionately known. |
Sky Europe | Hungary, Slovakia and suchlike. | |
Sky scanner | If you want to know who flies where, fire up this website and it'll tell you. | Good for planning trips to less usual places. |
Thomsonfly | From various small UK airports to Europe in partnership with Hapag-Lloyd express. | |
To and From | You need to know how to get from the airport to the town? No worries - it's all here, including public transport! Superbly useful. | Has been correct every time so far! |
Urban Railways | All you ever wanted to know about Funiculars and Cog railways throughout Europe! | |
Wizzair | A new force from Eastern Europe, flying to some very interesting destinations. | |
Other random links.
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Description |
Nargis kebab site | My other website - dedicated to the glory of the Nargis Kebab - the Scotch egg of the curry world. |
www.theevilempire.co.uk | Oh yes, my other site about diesel bashing! |