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    Started out as a beer writer, now writing about Brussels too. I founded Brussels Beer City in 2017, going on to write at The Irish Times, Good Beer Hunting and elsewhere, (self-)publishing two books and picking up some awards along the way.

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    Historian at the University of Nottingham

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