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Alistair Reece @velkyal.bsky.social · 18h

Overheard in the airport... Young guy: "Why do you go to Vegas every year?" Old fella: "To gamble, of course"

Alistair Reece @velkyal.bsky.social · 18h

Today: fly from Salt Lake City back to Virginia. Next Saturday: fly back west to Denver. Not going to #GABF, but looking forward to getting to Cohesion, Bierstadt, etc, etc...

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Alistair Reece @velkyal.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Dear American brewers - or brewers from everywhere actually - fuck off with laser etched nucleation points in your glassware.

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Alistair Reece @velkyal.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Just learnt that Utah has a draft ABV limit of 5%...and that is freaking awesome! If a brewer can't make flavorful, delicious beer that is under 5% ABV, then I question their chops.

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Alistair Reece @velkyal.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I am in Utah this week for the first time. I think I am having religious PTSD from the Pentecotal church conference in the same building as the geoscience conference I am at - memories of a former life. Thank goodness for beer.

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Alistair Reece @velkyal.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Currently on tap at my house, a 4.7% London Porter... #homebrew

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Alistair Reece @velkyal.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Heard an interesting take on AI yesterday at a conference...AI is the technological equivalent of a cover band.

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Alistair Reece @velkyal.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

$15.50 (that's £11.57/€13.49) for a 20oz pour of a 5% kellerbier that is decent but not earth-shattering? Craft beer is becoming a fucking rip off.

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Alistair Reece @velkyal.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Next week I will be in DC for a series of meetings...looking at the ChurchKey beer menu has me excited for some good Central European lagers!

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Alistair Reece @velkyal.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

It feels like pointing out that a krug is not a stein is the beer communicator equivalent of the arrival of pumpkin spice latte - just an indicator of the arrival of autumn/Fall. Clearly, no one outside the bubble is listening, not even the breweries themselves.

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Alistair Reece @velkyal.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Saw a quote about poverty as a result of poor financial decisions and then conflated it with "the cycle of debt", which is interesting because viewing debt as poverty, or vice versa, makes Afghanistan, Turkmenistan, and Haiti "richer" than the entirety of the G7 in terms of debt as a %age of GDP.

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Alistair Reece @velkyal.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Oh, for a menu like this in Virginia

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Alistair Reece @velkyal.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

It is truly horrific watching a Guinness being poured into a shaker glass.

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Alistair Reece @velkyal.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Starting to think we need a hierarchy of beer competitions.

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Alistair Reece @velkyal.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Personal heresy, if you've never had altbier in Düsseldorf, kölsch in Köln, plzeňskè pivo in Plzeň, best bitter in England, dry Irish stout in Ireland, etc, etc, then you shouldn't be judging those categories in competitions.

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Alistair Reece @velkyal.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

New post on #Fuggled, in which Mrs V and I take a detour to Gastonia, outside Charlotte, to visit Keepsake Brewery. www.fuggled.net/2026/08/for-... #NCbeer #NorthCarolina

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For The Keepsake of It

a blog about beer, pubs and homebrewing. Based in Charlottesville but with a view of the world.

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Alistair Reece @velkyal.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Looking forward to trying out these hop varieties in my #homebrew.

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Alistair Reece @velkyal.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

This week, at the beach, I read @adrianmckinty.bsky.social's "The Cold Cold Ground", it was superb! Having grown up in the west of Scotland there were instantly recogiseable characters and themes. Though we never had the overt violence of The Troubles, it was always bubbling under the surface. 1/5

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Alistair Reece @velkyal.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Absolutely thrilled that Spain won the World Cup, mainly because it meant Argentina, and Messi, lost. Messi could have been the greatest player in history had he won the league in 3 of the 4 big leagues in Europe, instead he ran off to France then the MLS. Ronaldo is the GOAT, says an #LFC fan.

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Alistair Reece @velkyal.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

That might actually have been the best game of the entire World Cup.

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Alistair Reece @velkyal.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Whilst acknowledging that the whole BMI thing is not really scientific is any meaningful sense, it is still good to know that one result of my weight loss so far (56.2lbs/25.5kg) has taken me out of a bad category into a less bad category.

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Alistair Reece @velkyal.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Drinking northern and southern bitters in the pubs around Piccadilly Circus. A new post on #Fuggled. www.fuggled.net/2026/06/sout...

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South and North

a blog about beer, pubs and homebrewing. Based in Charlottesville but with a view of the world.

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Alistair Reece @velkyal.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Argh....fuck of with your syrupy shit and calling it a Vienna lager.

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Alistair Reece @velkyal.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

I wish micropubs were possible in Virginia, both legally and culturally. I'd open one in a heartbeat if so.

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Alistair Reece @velkyal.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

Been toying with the notion of parochialism in beer lately and how it differs from a notion of local. Really not sure where my brain is going with this, but I keep turning the idea over in my head. I kind of think booze is ultimately internationalist, and everything "local" is a facet of the global

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Alistair Reece @velkyal.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

I currently have a witbier and pale mild on tap, I have an ordinary bitter in primary, and I want to brew again this weekend - but have no idea what to brew, other than it be top fermented (I don't have time to commit to a decoction mash this weekend). What to brew???

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Alistair Reece @velkyal.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Continuing my misadventures in the pubs of London with some daliances with Timothy Taylor beers... www.fuggled.net/2026/06/timm...

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Timmy in Thames Town

a blog about beer, pubs and homebrewing. Based in Charlottesville but with a view of the world.

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Alistair Reece @velkyal.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Serious question, do people generally not do dinner parties anymore?

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Alistair Reece @velkyal.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

New post on #Fuggled, where I visit The Westminster Arms and enjoy pints of Shepherd Neame's fantastic ales. www.fuggled.net/2026/06/the-...

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The Westminster Arms

a blog about beer, pubs and homebrewing. Based in Charlottesville but with a view of the world.

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Alistair Reece @velkyal.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

A variation of my best bitter recipe for my brewday tomorrow... #homebrew

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Alistair Reece @velkyal.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

A third post this week?? Well, when you get news that Murphy & Rude is NOT going out of business, it is worth celebrating. www.fuggled.net/2026/06/good...

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Good News!

a blog about beer, pubs and homebrewing. Based in Charlottesville but with a view of the world.

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Alistair Reece @velkyal.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Hmmmm...planning to brew a best bitter this weekend, but being in London recently has me wondering if I should <gasp> do a version with crystal malt </gasp>.

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Alistair Reece @velkyal.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

In good news, Murphy and Rude Malting will continue, in partnership with Carolina Malt House of Cleveland, NC.

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Alistair Reece @velkyal.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Would love a pint of Shepherd Neame Master Brew right about now. Need to work out a clone recipe.

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Alistair Reece @velkyal.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

New post on #Fuggled, the first installment of beer whilst in the UK, starting off with part 1 of Windsor: www.fuggled.net/2026/06/of-g...

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Of Guards and Fathers

a blog about beer, pubs and homebrewing. Based in Charlottesville but with a view of the world.

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Alistair Reece @velkyal.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Forgot that I had an account in the other place for American Mild Month - guess I need to pull the archive and deactivate it. Might restart it over here and start plotting for American Mild Month 2027. #MildMonthUS #gotmild #mildale

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Alistair Reece @velkyal.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

A little update. I have now lost 48.2lbs/21.9kg. The kilt is actually wearable again, just. I have 16.8lbs/7.6kg to go until I reach my goal of shedding 20% of my starting weight.

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Alistair Reece @velkyal.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

Maybe it's because I am Scottish, but I will miss Robbo far more than Mo - not to take anything away from our Egyptian king. #lfc

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