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Hop Harvest 2010
4/5. A refreshing and well-rounded hop beer from De Ranke. Unexpectedly mild to the taste.
- Originally published: 22 Jan 2011 in Beer
Wostyntje
3/5. Cloudy, earthy beer with deep coriander flavour and a touch of mustard, though not as strong tasting as expected.
- Originally published: 1 Jan 2010 in Beer
Tikal
Passing nearby in 1525, Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés never spotted the silent buildings of the great city state Tikal, already hidden for centuries by thick jungle.
- Originally published: 29 Dec 2011 in Guatemala
Sint Bernardus Christmas Ale
4/5. Stronger and less smooth than the 12 Abt but with many of the same flavours – definitely a winter warmer.
- Originally published: 1 Jan 2011 in Beer
Luxembourg
A too-quiet Sunday in the expensive city of banking.
- Originally published: 21 Sep 2009 in Europe
Who you gonna call?
Hello you, I'm Mike Padgett. I'm not a Princeton curator, Knoxville mayoral candidate, Kentuckian pastor or Arizona journalist, I just share the same name. In fact, I am a consultant working in user experience and information design.
I also enjoy travel, concerts, films and walking.
I'm originally from Yorkshire, England but nowadays I live in Belgium. My current favourite Belgian beer is Black Albert.
Shameless self-promotion
Over a year in the making, Dopeology.org is my latest personal project: a topology of doping in thirty years of European pro road cycling.
I collected information from thousands of sources, then I modelled and published it via a lightweight user interface.