Edinburgh Beer Weekly 13/08 – 19/08
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 13th 8:00pm
Brewing Process Pt2
Appellation Wines, 43 Dalry Road
Appellation Wines website, tickets £7
Appellation Wines continue their series of tutored tastings on Monday, as the attention turns to the affect of the brewing kettle. Ash and Lewis will be on hand to offer insight as to how this part of the process results in so many different flavours. Expect discussion on different hops and the ways brewers use varying adjunct ingredients to produce their beers. Plus, of course, several tasters.
Monday 13th [to Wednesday 15th]
Guildford Arms Jazz Festival
Guildford Arms, 1 West Register St
Website
Edinburgh is undoubtedly the festival city – and For the next few days, the Guildford Arms joins in the fun with their annual jazz festival (which has been going on since the 3rd of August). Live music will be taking place daily, together with plenty of beer from sponsors the Orkney Brewery. Ten of their ales will be on tap, so head down and decide which pairs best with jazz.
Monday 13th [to Sunday 26th]
The Thinking Drinkers Guide to Alcohol
The Assembly Rooms, George St
Ticket details £10 (£9 concession)
Reigning British Guild of Beer Writers Beer Writer of the Year Ben McFarland and Tom Sandham are still presenting their 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. The Skinny certainly liked it, describing the show as ‘a fringe gem’ in their review.
Monday 13th [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.
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!
