Edinburgh Beer Weekly 15/04 – 21/04
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 15th [to 28th April]
New Brew beer festival
Guildford Arms, West Register St
Full beer List
Continuing from last week, DM Stewart’s major city-wide beer festival carries on, dedicated to new beers. There should still be plenty of the 200 different ales still on offer, from over 50 breweries – all of whom began operations in or since 1996. Check out the official beer list above, and get ready for spending a lot of time in the Guildford Arms, Abbotsford, Cumberland, and Canon’s Gait…
Monday 15th 8:00pm
Meet the Brewer at Appellation CB
Appellation Wines Comely Bank, Comely Bank Rd
Appellation Wines website tickets £10
This week’s Monday at Appellation takes on a bit of an MTB feel, as rather than a theme presented by proprietor Ash, Matt Spencer from Stewart Brewing will be heading to Comely Bank for the event instead. He’ll be bringing bottles of the following for your enjoyment – Edinburgh Gold, Holyrood, Black IPA, Radical Road, Cauld Reekie and Stewart’s latest birthday beer, the strong Belgian-inspired 8. Not a bad way to spend a Monday at all.
Tuesday 16th [7:00pm]
The Southern’s 1st Birthday party
The Southern, 22 South Clerk St
Southern website
Is it really a year since the Southern opened? Time has certainly flown past over those last twelve months, as the Edinburgh bar scene has continued to develop at a frenetic pace. To celebrate their first anniversary, the Southern are hosting a party featuring beer and cocktail samples, free nibbles, and a prize draw. Also included will be a whole host of exciting treats from the taps – after all, when they opened, attendees enjoyed (amongst others) Kernel Export Stout, Summer Wine Maelstrom, Hardknott Vitesse Noir and Brooklyn Sorachi Ace on draught.*
*Not me though, I was on holiday in Berlin drinking lots and lots of loverly lager.
Thursday 18th [6:00pm]
Meet the Brewer – Tryst
The Bailie, 2-4 St Stephen St
Thirty Days of IPA website
The pick of the 30 days of IPA events this week – and there are plenty (see website above) is at Stockbridge’s Bailie Bar. John McGarva from Tryst will be heading along for a chat on Thursday, and will presumably be bringing some casks along with him. If you’re not familiar with John’s recent work, the Tryst hop trial beers have quietly become one of the best release series in Scotland. This man knows how to brew – so head down to the Bailie catch up with his progress.
Saturday 20th
Record Store Day at the Bow Bar
The Bow Bar, 80 West Bow
Record Store Day website / Revolutions Brewing Co
This coming Saturday is Record Store Day – the seventh annual celebration of local, independent music shops. As the national chains struggle into receivership, there’s never been a better time to buy your physical, real-life music locally. But, what does this have to do with us at the BeerCast? Well, not only can you pair music with beer, but for this Record Store Day the Bow Bar have got an exclusive remix from Revolutions Brewing Company – a unique 6.9% IPA from the UK’s only music-themed brewery. Head down to the Bow and sing its praises (sorry).
Saturday 20th [8:00pm]
Record Store Day at Summerhall
1 Summerhall
Record Store Day website / Beer versus Records Tickets £8 (see below)
Also on Saturday, look out in bottle shops for Barney’s one-off experiment in conjunction with Song, by Toad records. 250 vinyl records will be released containing half an album of music from local bands; simultaneously 250 six-packs of Barney’s beer will be made available, each with download codes for the remaining songs. Beer vs Records. Which will sell 250 copies first? Find out at the launch party later that night at Summerhall, where all the bands will be performing. Tickets are reduced to £6 if you’ve spent money in an independent record store that day, or £4 if you turn up with the vinyl part of the project tucked under your arm.
The Edinburgh Beer Weekly comes out every Sunday here on the BeerCast, and this is a very special edition, as it marks exactly a year since the first one was published (which, of course, featured the opening of the Southern). Many thanks to everyone who has sent in suggestions for things to be included since, or notified me of beery nights that I’ve missed. As a testament to the Edinburgh beer scene, in the twelve months that I’ve been posting these Beer Weeklies, only a single week has passed without an event to include. One missing week out of the last fifty-two. Let’s hope that over the next year, we can go one better. Cheers!
