Edinburgh Beer Weekly 30/04 – 06/05
Welcome to the latest Edinburgh Beer Weekly! Every Sunday we’ll be posting a preview of all the beery happenings in the city for the next seven days – so you won’t miss a thing. You can sign up to our subscription service, ensuring you’ll get a notification every Sunday when the Edinburgh Beer Weekly is published. Just enter your email address in the panel on our front page. Also, follow us on Twitter (@thebeercast) to keep right up to date throughout the week. There are so many great beery things going on at the moment – stay tuned to the BeerCast, and enjoy each and every one of them!
So – what’s happening in the Edinburgh beer scene over the next seven days?
Wednesday 2nd 7:30pm
Radical Road Launch Red Squirrel, 21 Lothian Road
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Stewart Brewing have been pushing the boat out a bit lately, and things continue in that regard on Wednesday, as they launch a triple hopped keg IPA – Radical Road (6.4%). Head brewer Iain wanted to do something a bit different, and after chatting to him at last week’s Zymic launch he seems very happy with the result. Stewart have never produced a beer hopped at three different stages – so head down to Lothian Road for a sample. As a one off (although it will also be bottled), it’s sure to go pretty quickly.
Thursday 3rd
Bow Bar Non-Event The Bow Bar, 80 West Bow
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Taking pains to describe it as ‘not an event – just a night with great beer’, the Bow Bar’s latest event is a night of great beer! A mini Magic Rock takeover (bringing back fond memories of that night at the Stockbridge Tap*) – you can have the change to compare High Wire on cask and keg, alongside their new golden ale Carnival. Also on the menu, Tempest Rye PA, Highland The Duke IPA, Cromarty Red Rocker, Acorn Gorlovka Stout, and Tryst Citra Hop Trial. Will there be a better beer lineup in Edinburgh on that night? I doubt it.
Saturday 5th, Sunday 6th 12pm-1am
Blue Goose Beer Festival The Blue Goose, 27 Lanark Road
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Last year, Lanark Road’s Dell Inn was given a refit and re-badged as the Blue Goose. Over the May bank holiday weekend a mini beer festival will be on, alongside live music and BBQ food. Featuring beer from Inveralmond, Stewart Brewing and Sinclair Orkney (including cask Skull Splitter), hopefully the weather will hold and the riverside beer garden will be in full operation. The Blue Goose also have their own house beer, produced for them by Tetley’s.
The Edinburgh Beer Weekly will be published every Sunday here on the BeerCast. If you have an event in or around the city that you’d like to feature – please get in touch at the usual email address. Cheers!
*I actually have precious little memory of that night
