I’ll Get Them In
OK so we’re working our way around the world (fuelled by beer) and we start the quest in bonny Scotland. We’ll be supping ales, lagers (supposedly) and wheat beers from Edinburgh to Glasgow through Alva, Kinlochleven, Munlochy and beyond.
The beers the panel will be trying are listed below so see if you can find them in your local and remember to let us know what you think. We’ll be posting our opinions in the near future.
- Three Sisters (Atlas Brewery – Kinlochleven)
- St. Andrews Ale (Belhaven Brewery – Dunbar)
- Golden Promise (Caledonian Brewery – Edinburgh)
- William Wallace (Traditional Scottish Ales – Stirling)
- Old Engine Oil (Harviestoun Brewery – Alva)
- Arran Blonde or AB (Arran Brewery – Brodick)
- Tennents Lager (Tennents Caledonian Brewery – Glasgow)
- Organic Wheat Beer (Black Isle Brewery – Munlochy)
- Traquair House Ale (Traquair House Brewery – Innerleithen)
Note that if you can’t get hold of Tennents Lager it’s important not to panic, just suck the juice from a dead duck (through it’s beak) to achieve a similar taste and comment on that instead!
Brewery companies please note that free beer always welcome, but not sure I can convince the whole panel to vote favourably (so just send it all to me).
Have fun everyone.
“Alcohol fuels my power cells. And as a mighty robot, I…………Beep!”
4 Comments
Rick
April 17, 2007I suppose you will be advising us as well which great tasting beers are available for distribution to different countries. Or perhaps you could start your own distribution country so we can all make informed decisions (though after a few beer not necessarily intelligent decisions) on products that you have tested.
Grooben
April 18, 2007No chance of me finding these beers here in BC – i’ll do a reviews of Tennants Lager now though – it tastes like old dish water but its a good choice if you have to drink 10 pints. Hic.
Richard
April 18, 2007Hmmm…I can’t seem to recall a night when you drank 10 pints grooben. Or do you mean 10 over the course of a week? 😉
Mr B
April 18, 2007Chaps, check out the links on the blog to each of the breweries. I know that some of them export to North America and the like. Also http://www.bunitedint.com/ (might be USA only) stock a bunch of Scottish ales.