Edinburgh Beer Weekly 06/08 – 12/08
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?
Monday 6th [to Sunday 26th]
The Thinking Drinkers Guide to Alcohol
The Assembly Rooms, George St
Ticket details £10 (£9 concession)
The Edinburgh Festival is here again – whilst many of the locals will be hiding in the quieter pubs, there’s always something going on for the beer lover. Alongside the general hubub of being involved in the festival atmosphere – there’s now a show you can attend. Beer Writer of the Year Ben McFarland and Tom Sandham will be presenting the Drinkers Guide to Alcohol – a humorous look at booze throughout the ages, with six free drinks for each audience member over the course of the hour. Now that’s a session.
Monday 6th [to Monday 27th]
One o’clock Gunn
Innis & Gunn popup bar, 32 PotterRow
Facebook event page
Every day between 1-2pm throughout the festival, the Innis & Gunn popup bar at Potterrow will be holding a free tasting session. As the real one o’clock gun sounds from the castle, the bottle tops will be firing for beers such as I&G Whisky Cask and Independence Day 2012. At the same time, there’ll be bonus samplings of Melville’s new Strawberry or Raspberry fruit lager. Full details of which Innis & Gunn beer will be open on what day on their Facebook page above.
Monday 6th [daily]
The Royal Dick
1 Summerhall
Facebook page
Pretty much every Edinburgh festival venue has a bar attached, enabling punters to grab a lovely pint of macro-lager in a plastic glass. Some, however, have better bars than others. The recently opened Summerhall is one of the most talked about, with a brand new bar in the old small animal hospital of the Dick Vet School. One of the reasons why is that it has it’s own, on-site micro-brewery. Barney’s beer relocated from Falkirk and are now set up, brewing Summerhall Pale Ale for thirsty festival goers.
Friday 10th [to Sunday 12th]
Drinkmonger Beer Festival
11 Bruntsfield Place
Further Details FREE
Starting this Friday, the Drinkmonger branch by the Bruntsfield Links are holding a mini beer festival. Around half a dozen brewery reps (and in some cases, the brewers themselves) will be on hand, pouring samples of their beers and answering questions. For a full list, check the link above, but highlights include five beers from Fyne Ales (2:30-4:30pm Friday), and the launch of Tempest Brewing’s new bottled American Pale Ale (3:00pm-5:00pm Saturday).
Friday 10th [to Sunday 12th]
Foodies Festival
Inverleith Park
Official website 3-day ticket £18, 1-day £10 (conc £15;£8)
Also running from Friday throughout the weekend is the Foodies Festival in Inverleith Park. Following the unfortunate flood-related cancellation of TASTE last month, Foodies looks like being the last chance to get some quality outdoor nibbles this summer. If ‘relaxing in a deckchair on the Jamie Magazine city beach’ sounds like your kind of thing, head on down. For beer lovers, at 11:30am each day award-winning writer Melissa Cole will be hosting a tutored tasting – well worth signing up for.
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!
