Edinburgh Beer Weekly 13/05 – 19/05

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?

Monday 13th 8:00pm
Reds, Ambers and Bitters at Appellation CB
Appellation Wines Comely Bank, Comely Bank Rd
Appellation Wines website tickets £10

This week’s Appellation tasting takes place down in Comely Bank, and features beers that many see as the workhorses of brewing. Bitters and Ambers are fairly universal – but that doesn’t mean they have to be boring, by any means. Well-made, balanced versions of these styles can be fabulous – and red ales bring a earthy, peppery bitterness to the party, particularly the highly hopped versions from over the Atlantic. Try six of the best at Appellation Comely Bank.

Wednesday 15th [7:30pm]
Meet the Brewer – Dark Star
The Hanging Bat, 133 Lothian Rd
Further Information FREE

Lothian Road’s Hanging Bat are spoiling the punters this month, as ahead of the scheduled visit of Toby from RedWillow, this week they are squeezing in a second Meet the Brewer event for this month. Dark Star have been going for nineteen years, producing fantastic cask beers such as the incomparable Hophead. Now, however, they have been persuaded to keg some of their wares and bring them north (along with some cask offerings). As the RedWillow event is ticketed, Dark Stars’ will be free, so head on down and take advantage of one-offs such as kegged Carafa Jade, or 1910 porter. Definitely one for the diary.

Thursday 16th [7:00pm]
Get Your Brew On, at the Southern
The Southern, 22 South Clerk St
Southern website

Kitchen and garage-based superheros will be in their element this week, as the Southern Bar launches a competition specifically aimed at homebrewers. The prize is very simple – win and your beer will be sold by the Southern. Interested? Head down this Thursday and get all of the details of what you have to do. As you’d expect, some great beers will also be on offer on the night, to give you inspiration (not that any homebrewer I’ve ever met needs it). Entry forms with terms and conditions will be available on the night, so hone those recipes and get brewing!

Thursday 16th [7:30pm]
Meet the Brewer – Stewart Brewing
The Laird and Dog, High St, Lasswade
Laird and Dog website

This week’s Meet the Brewer event takes place the other side of the bypass at the Laird and Dog in Lasswade. Stewart Brewing will be along at 7:30 to showcase a couple of their more recent bottled offerings – Radical Road and Black IPA.

Thursday 16th [to Sunday 19th]
Allendale Brewery Showcase
The Guildford Arms, 1 West Register St
Allendale Brewery website / Twitter feed

Starting this Thursday (and continuing all weekend) – the Guildford Arms will be featuring beers from Northumberland’s award-winning Allendale brewery. On the bar – Wagtail, Pennine Pale, Swift and Wolf. Allendale’s motto is ‘go with the flow’, which is sage advice indeed. However, as the beers will all be on at £2.50 a pint, the flow may go pretty quickly…

Friday 17th [7:30pm]
Beer and Food matching event
Three Birds, 3-5 Viewforth
Three Birds website / Twitter feed £40

To begin the weekend in style, on Friday Viewforth’s Three Birds restaurant are hosting a multi-course food and beer matching evening, in conjunction with Drinkmonger. Six different plates will be each matched with a beer throughout the night, with ‘pub quiz-style’ entertainment (so, a pub quiz?) in between. Phone 0131 2293252 for tickets, or send an email to contact@threebirds.co.uk – it should be a fantastic night for both foodies and beeries.

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!