Edinburgh Beer Weekly 05/11 – 11/11
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?
Beer Festivals continuing from last week
Monday 5th [to Sunday 18th Nov]
Nicholson’s Autumn Beer Festival The Haymarket Bar, 11-14a West Maitland St
Official website / Festival beer list [pdf]
Monday 5th [to Sunday 11th Nov]
JD Wetherspoons Beer Festival Various Locations
Further Information / Festival Beer List [pdf]
There’s still time to catch up with the festivals that are ongoing across Edinburgh. The Nicholson’s Autumn Beer Festival carries on, with sixty beers having been on offer throughout. Head down to the Kenilworth, Mitre, Conan Doyle, Greyfriars Bobby’s, Deacon Brodies or the Haymarket Bar (or a combination of them), to get with the festival spirit. Meanwhile, at the many ‘spoons locations around the city, the JD Wetherspoon Autumn Festival continues apace.
Wednesday 7th
Brewsters at Holyrood 9A Holyrood 9A, Holyrood Road
Further details
Also continuing this week is the Holyrood 9A’s six-day festival dedicated to the women involved in the modern beer industry. Leading up to Wednesday, the bar will be featuring beers produced by ten breweries who have women in charge – the likes of Mallinsons, Tyne Bank, St Eriks, Waen and Loch Lomond. On the night itself, many of the brewsters themselves will be in attendance for a special event hosted by award-winning beer writer Melissa Cole. As well as meet the brewster tastings, that night will see the tapping of the only Scottish cask of Project Venus Seren – a beetroot, chilli and cardamom porter made collaboratively by six of the women brewers involved. Get there early!
Wednesday 7th
Meet the brewer – Stewart Brewing Blacksmith’s Forge, 5 Newmills Rd, Dalkeith
Website (Wetherspoons)
On the same night, Dalkeith’s branch of Wetherspoons – the Blacksmith’s Forge – is hosting a meet the brewer event in association with Stewart Brewing. Head down to catch up with what Loanhead’s finest are up to, sample some of their beer, and find out how work is progressing on their new brewery.
Wednesday 7th
Night of Good Beer The Bow Bar, 80 West Bow
Further details
Wednesday is going to be the beer night in Edinburgh, as alongside the other two events, the Bow Bar is hosting another of their semi-regular ‘Good Beer Nights’. No fuss, no frills, just the following beers – Magic Rock High Wire, Kernel Export Stout and Kernel Table Beer on keg. Cask list – Tempest’s Into the Light, White Light and Pumpkin alongside Thornbridge Sequoia, Tyne Bank Cherry Stout, Alechemy Cairnpapple XH, Highland Stout, and Titanic Chocolate and Vanilla Stout. Holy moly.
Friday 9th 7:00pm
Fyne Ales Ruvaal Launch The Cumberland Bar, 1-3 Cumberland St
Website / Twitter feed
After taking Thursday off (or drinking at home – your call), start the weekend in the right way by heading down to the New Town and the Cumberland Bar. On Friday night they will see the release of the first ever cask of Fyne Ales’s hugely impressive IPA series – this latest being the spellcheck-challenging Ruvaal, a 5.5% blonde IPA. Other great beers will be on offer too, so get there early to bag one of the snugs and then sample the latest IPA from Fyne Ales.
Sunday 11th
Remembrance Day festival Stagg’s Bar (The Volunteer Arms), 81 North High St, Musselburgh
Website / Twitter feed
On Sunday the 11th, Scotland’s best dual-named pub is holding a day-long beer festival. Stagg’s (aka the Volunteer Arms) in Musselburgh will be dispensing all kinds of top notch ales from the moment the doors are open. Follow their Twitter feed for a beer list – I will update the EBW when the beers are announced. Whatever they are, they’ll be good!
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!
