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Melissa Cole

@melissacolebeer.bsky.social
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Beer hack/International beer judge of mystery/Bad cricketer/Worse fisher Order my books here tinyurl.com/z9jd2ru or tinyurl.com/da95798b Loathe Scampi Fries but any other hate has no home on this timeline. linktr.ee/MelissaColeBeer

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John West @jwestjourno.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Great read from @melissacolebeer.bsky.social.
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ᛗɪᴄнᴁʟƔ ᛯᚰ @rugbydraken.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
Swedes are boycotting American beers. The state monopoly off licence Systembolaget reports a drop in sales of American beer of 13% and they've cut 100+ beers from their offering. Lowest sales since the George W Bush / Iraq war era. www.beernews.se/articles/ame...
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Amerikansk bojkott – lägsta ölförsäljningen på 20 år - Beernews
Under 2025 backade den amerikanska ölförsäljningen på Systembolaget med ytterligare 13 procent, samtidigt som sortimentet minskade med över 100 öl. Särskilt tydlig är trenden sista halvåret – som norm...
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Melissa Cole @melissacolebeer.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
Oh early reports were wrong, on the sites, they’ve acquired quite a few of them, apologies. Stunned they were included at that price TBH, big ouch!
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Melissa Cole @melissacolebeer.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
Looks like it’s Tilray then
headline saying brewdog sold to cannabis giant Tilray
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Melissa Cole @melissacolebeer.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
The Charlton community is trying to save its pub www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/whiteswana...
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Let's Buy Our Swan - The White Swan, Charlton
Let's remake Charlton's history and buy the derelict White Swan. Restore the pub, to create a live music venue and community arts hub.
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Melissa Cole @melissacolebeer.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
What an innings from the Moscaaj brothers!
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Melissa Cole @melissacolebeer.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
Well, Italy absolutely smashing it at the #T20WorldCup wasn’t on my bingo card!
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a cricket player wearing a helmet and gloves with the letters sb on the bat
Alt: a cricket player in whites & wearing a helmet and gloves hits what looks like a straight six back over the bowler’s head
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Melissa Cole @melissacolebeer.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
Dear Whoever at Apple Who Was Responsible For Moving the Control Key on the New Keyboards, I hope every one of your shoes is filled with Lego forever, you absolute bellend. Yours in deep frustration, The Generation That Grew Up Using Keyboard Shortcuts
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a close up of a person 's face with red eyes and black hair
Alt: a close up of a cartoon person 's face with red eyes, thick eyeliner and black hair, the eyes are flickering in rage
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Melissa Cole @melissacolebeer.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
Dear American pals, I’ve just seen your new food pyramid, I reckon you should start stockpiling laxatives now because there’s going to be enough demand to create a black market soon! A backside hustle, if you will…
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Melissa Cole @melissacolebeer.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
Hey Hive Mind! Has anyone used a site to sell their old iMac? Apple won’t give me diddly but there’s a fairly consistent £300 or so but no real way of verifying them as kosher.
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Melissa Cole @melissacolebeer.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
Absolutely lovely to have just been chatting Christmas dinner ‘hacks’ with Lorraine Kelly standing in for Jeremy Vine on BBC radio 2 today, you can listen again at 12.45! www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
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Radio 2 - Listen Live - BBC Sounds
Listen live to Radio 2 on BBC Sounds
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Kimberley @craftbeerpinup.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
Today’s prize is a biggie thanks to my friends @lostcausebrewingco.bsky.social 💛 Get your raffle tickets by 7pm to be in with a chance of winning this and every other prize until Christmas Day. www.justgiving.com/page/kimberl...
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Melissa Cole @melissacolebeer.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
If you win, message me and I’ll send you a signed book plate with a message to you or whoever you want!
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Melissa Cole @melissacolebeer.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
The concept of Test cricket is anathema to this 99% of this England team, I despair.
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Melissa Cole @melissacolebeer.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
If you are off to Seville, book one of Shawn's tastings, she is the best! x
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Dan Neidle @danneidle.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
Reform UK is proposing a "Britannia card" that would let wealthy foreigners pay a £250k fee to move to the UK, and live here exempt from all tax on their foreign assets What they don't say: it would cost the UK £34bn Report here, and thread below: buff.ly/gpe2Dpf
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Craft Beer Newcastle @craftbeerncl.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
2 out of 3 of the top beers listed in this article are from North East breweries. Capital of Craft? You bet we are! 💪 www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/dc07c06... #ShareTheBeerLove: @melissacolebeer.bsky.social for @telegraphnews.bsky.social
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The best and worst mid-strength beers
We rate mid-strength lagers, pale ales, stouts and milds for flavour
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Melissa Cole @melissacolebeer.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
It’s not that I don’t want to come home, I do, I miss my husband, but I really don’t want to leave this fruit (and no, I will not be putting any in my bag, it’s so ripe it would turn my whole luggage into some horrifying ferment before I even hit the Elizabeth Line!)
Screamingly fresh watermelon, papaya, pineapple and green melon on a red & white gingham table cloth, with a blue cup of tea, a chair and tropical plants blurred in the background
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Neptune Brewery @neptunebrewery.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Join Julie and @melissacolebeer.bsky.social at Salt and Tar in Bootle for a Beer School Tasting Experience, where we’ll talk you through the journey from grain to glass! 🔱 Sunday 25th May 2025 🔱 Price includes 6 x ½ pints of beer Tickets are available now via our website: bit.ly/NeptuneBeerSchool
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Melissa Cole @melissacolebeer.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
@waterstonesargyle.bsky.social a friend sent me this yesterday, thank you very much for your kind words!
Ultimate Book of Craft Beer with a hand-written note saying: Go-to for beer lovers and foodies alike.
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Dr Amy Kavanagh @blondehistorian.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
People of Manchester. I'm visiting soon for a work trip and I have an accessibility mission for you! Are there any wheelchair accessible restaurants in the Curry Mile that would welcome a guide dog? (Yes I know it's the law, but unfortunately I very often get refused by restaurants).
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Jessica Mason @drinksmaven.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
Now Keystone has acquired North’s brands, the sector is saddened. Could it be that brand identity is meaningless without beer integrity? Here, I look to the duo who began the North brand in earnest to show why the industry cares so much. www.thedrinksbusiness.com/2025/02/wher...
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Where's your true North?
Now that private equity firm Keystone has acquired North Brewing Co’s brands, the sector is reeling. Could it be that brand identity is meaningless without beer integrity? Jessica Mason looks to the d...
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Melissa Cole @melissacolebeer.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
Some good news for a pleasant change! www.itv.com/news/border/...
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Melissa Cole @melissacolebeer.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Another one gone sadly.
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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
“At a minimum, 300 babies that wouldn’t have had HIV, now do.” Send him to the fucking Hague
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Melissa Cole @melissacolebeer.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
Some good news. Groundbreaking’ potential cure for sickle cell in England approved for NHS use www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
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‘Groundbreaking’ potential cure for sickle cell in England approved for NHS use
Clinical trials find one-time gene therapy exa-cel offers ‘functional cure’ in 96.6% of patients
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Melissa Cole @melissacolebeer.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
This is my new anthem.
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Melissa Cole @melissacolebeer.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Just listening to the latest excellent Marina Hyde and @richardosman1.bsky.social The Rest Is Entertainment for some reason… open.spotify.com/episode/2Ls2...
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The BrewDog Famechaser
The Rest Is Entertainment · Episode
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Melissa Cole @melissacolebeer.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Exclusive by me in The Drinks Business, several sources inform me that Magic Rock & Fourpure have been bought out of administration by Keystone... more to come.
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Melissa Cole @melissacolebeer.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
When your dad is trying to advise you on some DIY but types a somewhat insufficient search phrase into Amazon… the key word missing here was ‘hinges’ 😂 #dads #diy
The image shows women in shapewear and my dad messaging ‘this an Amazon result of typing rising butts’. 

I respond with ‘BAH HA HA HA HA HA HA! This is one the best things ever, I am crying with laughter. DO NOT TYPE THAT INTO GOOGLE!!!!!’ 

The joke is that he was trying to advise me on the best gate hinges to get, which are called rising butt hinges..:
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Melissa Cole @melissacolebeer.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
I don’t watch a lot of football these days but Mike Dean on @skyspaces.bsky.social today is the literal embodiment of having someone commit self-arson in the trouser region.
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Melissa Cole @melissacolebeer.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
I finally have my other place archive request in progress, it’s taken months but I’ll finally be able to delete my account, which is sad but very necessary.
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Phil Mellows @philmellows.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
This looks good. Beer, Brews and Bold Women: beer tasting with @melissacolebeer.bsky.social and @alidunworth.bsky.social www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/beer-brews... via @britbeerwriters.bsky.social
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Beer, Brews and Bold Women: beer tasting with Melissa Cole & Ali Dunworth
An extraordinary evening of food and beer that shatters stereotypes and celebrates the rich, untold history of women in brewing
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Trung Le Nguyen @trungles.com · 15/01/2025
If you snitch-tag, I will block you so fast lol
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Melissa Cole @melissacolebeer.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
Magic Rock & Fourpure have allegedly called in the administrators, sad times. Lion has a lot to answer for after it epically mismanaged those two brands, it was always a hail mary to bring them back.
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Melissa Cole @melissacolebeer.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
Day Seven! Rough night’s sleep due to horrible sinus pain but genuinely feel a corner has been turned today, mental acuity is about 75% (low bar anyway, but, you know, I’ll take it!). Cough is still hideous, smell and taste intermittent to none for last two days, still a damp rag physically.
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maura johnston @maura.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
just a reminder that the beer wwe has crawled into bed with was launched to capitalize on the transphobic bud light boycott tucson.com/news/nation-...
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Hulk Hogan’s Real American Beer hits stores in shot at Bud Light: ‘America’s been waiting for this’
Real American Beer is a way, Hulk Hogan said, to bring “America back together one beer at a time.”
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Melissa Cole @melissacolebeer.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
So, I have no doubt that had I not had my vaccine I would have been in hospital these past few days, and it was touch and go at times whether I was going to call an ambulance. If you’re sick, try to stay home. If you can get jabbed, please do! Influenza will fuck you up… hard.
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Melissa Cole @melissacolebeer.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
Good morning to everyone else who started the day with a toddler cry because the cough they gave was so painful they immediately burst into tears… fuck this bug it’s awful!
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Melissa Cole @melissacolebeer.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
Hooooo boy, this lurgy is a doozy huh? I think I know what coughing razor blades would be like now. At least I still have my sense smell and taste still… although a consistent temperature would be nice. Real life footage of me RN.
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spongebob squarepants is sitting in a chair in front of a window with his arms outstretched .
Alt: spongebob squarepants looking like melted cheese, raises his arms with ‘I feel fine!!!’ above his head.
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Melissa Cole @melissacolebeer.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
Buy your children earphones, the racket from three of your little darlings, all with separate cacophonous tablets, is not appreciated on the train.
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Melissa Cole @melissacolebeer.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
It's mad Friday for the trade so, remember, friends keep friends hydrated and don't let them be dicks to staff... pass it on!
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elmo from sesame street is surrounded by flames and the word chaos is above him
ALT: elmo from sesame street is surrounded by flames and the word chaos is above him
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Rob Davies @byrobdavies.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
A tale to warm the cockles at Christmas. www.theguardian.com/business/202...
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For richer or poorer? BrewDog co-founder may delay marriage to max-out tax relief
James Watt’s investment in I’m a Celebrity winner Georgia Toffolo’s raw dog food venture needs three years as ‘unconnected person’ under HMRC rules
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Ed King @edkinguk.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
www.telegraph.co.uk/food-and-dri... Got to hang out and drink #Anspach&Hobday #LondonBlack Stout with the wonderful @melissacolebeer.bsky.social Great list of stouts.
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The best British stouts according to Telegraph readers
Discover 10 alternatives to Guinness from our enthusiastic online audience
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Rye River Brewing Co. @ryeriverbrewingco.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
Hey, Melissa! We have Eventide Nitro Stout, 4.5% ABV, and our best contact is info@ryeriverbrewingco.com. For those interested, it can be found at The Long Hall, Darkey Kelly’s, and Abbots Ale House in Cork! ☺️🍻
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Nat Middleton @nmcooks.bsky.social · 15/12/2024
I have a niche request for any restaurants lovers who happen to remember the Smollensky’s restaurants in London… could you please share with me your happy memories of visiting there… my dad who founded and owned them is turning 80 very soon and i’d love to share some stories.
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Melissa Cole @melissacolebeer.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
🎶T’is the season to shag trolleys, fa la la la la la, la la la la🎶
Headline from the Scotsman says ‘man tried to have sex with Scotrail drinks trolley’ the headline is from Jan 2014 but it’s still funny every year!
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Kate Oppenheim @lovepubs.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
Great to hear pubs getting lots of positive PR on Radio 2 this afternoon. The story was about GenZ loving trad boozers - mentions of cosy spaces and cheap beer (compared to upmarket bars). Shout out to @melissacolebeer.bsky.social for her brilliant contribution. @bbcradio2.bsky.social
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