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So the jolly nice people at Wikio have this month kindly offered me a sneak preview of the new beer & wine blog rankings for March.

1Pencil & Spoon +12Pete Brown's Blog +13Beer Reviews +34Master Brewer at Adnams +135Bibendum Wine6Zythophile7Drinking Outside The Box8Reluctant Scooper9Sour Grapes10The Wine Conversation11Spittoon12Tandleman's Beer Blog -413Are You Tasting the Pith? -414Called to the bar15Raising the Bar +3116Rabid About Beer -617EpicBeerKel's BeeRevolution18The Good Stuff +419The Pub Curmudgeon -1220Real Brewing at the Sharp EndRanking made by Wikio


Plenty of movers & shakers this month but the first thing I noticed was BrewDog's absence from the rankings, I have no idea whether this is deliberate omission or not. They were usually hovering around the top spot & I had heard rumblings from other bloggers that they felt BrewDog's blog is an advertorial & doesn't belong in the rankings, so maybe Wikio have addressed this but I'm not sure.

I am delighted with how my blog rose 31 places to 15th in the rankings but I believe this may be a temporary effect of the huge interest my post regarding Kevin created.

Congratulations to Mark from Pencil & Spoon for taking top spot this month I particularly enjoyed his BrewDog post recently.

Also a mention for Andy from Beer Reviews which climbed to the lofty position of 3rd! Well done Andy!

And a mention for Leigh at The Good Stuff, for sticking around the top 20 for his informative & enjoyable musings on a wide range of beers wherever he may find them, Leigh's blog is Leeds longest running beer blog & it's nice to see his dedication paying off.

So there you have it, BrewDog gone from the rankings, do you agree or disagree?


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