How the other half live…
We like to think of ourselves at the BeerCast as being beyond casual stereotyping – but when you deal with ‘real ale’ it can be very hard to avoid. Beer enthusiasts tend to be of a certain demographic, which is why beer festivals can be enlightening when the occasional non-beardy person wanders in. Admittedly, most […]
BeerCast #19 – Golden Summer
BeerCast #19 – Golden Summer. Despite the incessant rain, summer is here in Scotland, so we celebrate by sampling four Golden Ales. Devised in the 1980’s to tempt lager drinkers to more interesting things, they are classically refreshing and easy to drink. Slapping on the shorts and shades are Richard, Shovels and Grooben. Shovels would like to apologise for finding the Suffolk town of Bungay so amusing…
1. Wagtail King Tut (4.0%)
2. Badger Golden Glory (4.5%)
3. St Peter’s Golden Ale (4.7%)
4. Hop Back Summer Lightning (5.0%)
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Lagerboy Speaks – Monteith’s New Zealand Lager
‘All beer is good. Some beer is better…’ is a great philosophy for a brewer – and maybe for a beer website too, come to that (although I would hesitate to describe something like Bud Light as good). But that particular saying comes from motto-happy Monteith’s, who also describe themselves as ‘The home of craft […]
Gutter Slab – for the Hopheads
Last month when we visited the Scottish Beer Festival at the Assembly Rooms in our home city we found a great deal of things we liked, both new and old. One of the newer discoveries was a pale bitter called Peden’s Cove from the Windie Goat Brewery in Failford, Ayrshire. Tucked away in the far […]
Everyone’s a critic
We were in Doctors pub on Forrest Road last week for BeerCaster John’s birthday – and I think he did drink beer at some point on his journey around the world of booze.* Someone spotted this opportunistic bit of graffiti on a poster advertising pitchers of Fosters lager. Hard to argue, really. Needless to say […]
BeerCast #18 – Sakura Beers
BeerCast #18 – Sakura Beers. Our second Japanese BeerCast follows the same pattern as the first, after one of our panellists returns from the Far East with a clinking suitcase. It was Grooben who was lucky enough to visit Japan this time, so sharing the spoils of his trip are Richard, Shovels and Andy. Also today we discuss trains, seal-inspired doomsday cults, and we break out our little men…
1. Sapporo Premium Lager (4.7%)
2. Landbeer Kaori No Yutakana (5.0%)
3. Kyoto Machiya Kölnisch (5.0%)
4. Ishikawa Tama no Meguri (5.5%)
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