Beer Birthday: Jeff Bell

by Jay Brooks on February 28, 2011 · 2 comments

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Today is the 32nd birthday of Jeff Bell, whose alter ego was, until last year, Stonch, one of England’s best bloggers. He recently retired from blogging to concentrate on his new job as landlord of a London pub, The Gunmakers, in Clerkenwell, a village in the heart of London. I stopped by to meet Jeff on my way back from a trip tp Burton-on-Trent a few years ago. Last year, I saw Jeff several times during GBBF week. Join me in wishing Jeff a very happy birthday.

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Jeff Bell, a.k.a. Stonch, at The Gunmakers Pub in central London.

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With a Gunmaker’s bartender at the British Beer Writers Guild event before the start of the Great British Beer Festival in 2009.

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In front of Gunmaker’s in the summer of 2009.

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Alan February 28, 2010 at 6:48 am

Great photos. Facebook tells me that other venerable blogger, Knut of Norway, also shares this birthday.

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