Scottish Real Ale Festival 2009 – Day 2
Grooben checking the beer list Another day, another day at the beer festival. We returned to the Assembly Rooms for a second helping of the best of Scotland’s real ale, eager to see what else we could discover. The beers were pretty much the same as the day before, so we fired straight into the […]
Scottish Real Ale Festival 2009 – Day 1
Edinburgh is a city well known for festivals, and fortunately for us on the BeerCast they aren’t just restricted to the arts. The 2009 Scottish Real Ale Festival has rolled around again, held at the Assembly rooms on George Street. As promised in our recent preview we turned up with high expectations, given the impressive […]
AAA at the Wellington
The vagaries of work take me down from Edinburgh to Birmingham a few times each year, and although the travel and crappy hotel are never welcome – the Wellington certainly is. Previously I’ve written two ‘…in praise of’ articles on this fantastic pub (here and here), located on Bennet’s Hill just a short wander from […]
BeerCast #34 – The StoutOff
BeerCast #34 – The StoutOff. Our second style show (following an old podcast about Scottish IPA’s) sees us turn to darker matters. We sample two British and then two American stouts, and compare the very different takes on the style. On the panel this time are Richard, Shovels, Grooben and the Hopmeister Tom – who seems to have finally met his match with the Imperial Stouts…
1. Hop Back Entire Stout (4.5%)
2. Cameron’s Monkey Stout (4.4%)
3. Great Divide Yeti Imperial Stout (9.5%)
4. Left Hand Imperial Stout (10.4%)
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Scottish Beer Festival 2009 Lineup
We’re two weeks away from the 2009 Scottish Real Ale Festival at the Assembly Rooms in Edinburgh, and as ever the entry list of beers has been released early to get the tastebuds going. Being our hometown festival we always like to turn up to see what’s on offer – our reviews of the 2008 […]
Lagerboy Speaks – BrewDog 77 Lager
A couple of months ago, Lagerboy reviewed BrewDog’s Cult Lager, which went down rather well. A beer typical of the Fraserburgh duo, it was a pilsener with knobs on. However, the use of past tense is deliberate, as Cult Lager – together with another of their fizzier offerings Hop Rocker – were discontinued in favour […]
