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A full month without a single entry. Sorry.

The thing is, I’m a kind of distanced from this current incarnation of manpitsu. I’ve been planning and testing a new version of my web pages for some time, and would like to get it done and running, instead of using this old system (even if I’m planning to move all the old entries there, too). But there’s still a lot to do before the new one is actually usable.

It’s green and summerlike outside by now. For a week or so it’s been raining. If it gets warm soon, everything will be growing like crazy.

I made a three-day trip to Stockholm this month to attend the VON conference. Nothing too interesting there this time. But I visited some bars in Stockholm, looking for special beers. A place called Belgobaren is a must for any beer lover visiting Stockholm – they have an admirable selection of Belgian beers. I tasted Liefmans Frambozenbier and Westmalle trappist beer there. On the other side of the town there are two bars close to each other serving real ale. One is called Akkurat and the other Oliver Twist. The first real ale I tasted was some basic pale ale; the other one Harviestoun Black to Front. The brewery is quitting and this was the last beer they made: