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Welcome to our blog!


If you're here you hopefully share our love and passion for ale things beer. If not then perhaps we could convert you with something a little different.

Who are we?

We're Matt and Jorgie, a pair of beer lovers from the UK. Both of us found our love for beers working in bars and partaking in the odd beer or twelve. 

What started out as an enjoyment of beer and bars has developed into a shared hobby. Now we scour the shelves of supermarkets and bottle shops to find things new and different. A quest in taste and style which will take us across the country and further.

The caps

As the beer industry has developed recently with its craft beer craze. We've both developed an appreciation for the branding and art which has carried some companies from local brewery to craft beer heavy weights. Collecting different bottle caps has become somewhat of an obsession for us. One day we hope to create a great mosaic using the caps as unique tiles.

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