Edinburgh Beer Weekly 10/06 – 16/06
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 10th [to Saturday 22nd]
Cloisters Summer Beer Festival
Cloisters Bar, 26 Brougham St
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This coming week begins in spectacular fashion, with no less than three events on Monday. In Tollcross, Cloisters Bar begin their annual summer beer festival, launching around 70 cask ales into the glasses of their loyal patrons (alongside ten kegged beers and half a dozen ciders). You may already have read the preview posted here on the BeerCast last week. If not, in summary, the beers are going to be fantastic. There’s no better reason on Monday to chalk up the first of many visits to Cloisters over the next two weeks…
Monday 10th 6:30pm
Meet the Brewer – Oakham Ales [takeover continues to Sunday 16th]
Thomson’s Bar, 182-184 Morrison St
Further Information
…unless of course, you manage to wander half a mile or so towards Haymarket to Thomson’s Bar, where the brewers from Peterborough’s Oakham Ales will be on hand. They may have come a long way to be in Edinburgh, but aside from politeness the main reason to head along are their beers – Oakham are one of the most under-rated breweries in England. For example, Oakham Citra is one of the finest beers you could ever come across – and you’ll be able to partake of that and nine of its stablemates – JHB, Inferno, Eugene’s Lair, Scarlet Macaw, Bishop’s Farewell, Sock Monkey, Black Hole Porter, Tranquility, and the 7.5% Oakham Attila. The brewers will be there 6:30-8:30pm, but the beers will be on for the rest of the week.
Monday 10th 8:00pm
Scandinavian Beers at Appellation CB
Appellation Wines Comely Bank, Comely Bank Rd
Appellation Wines website tickets £10
Finally for Monday – there’s a tasting at Appellation (Comely Bank) involving beers of all hues from one particular area – Scandinavia. From Nøgne Ø to Mikkeller, brewers from that part of the world are more inventive than almost any other. Take a trip to their homelands, via Comely Bank, and find out the very best beers Scandinavia has to offer. Then take the next day off work and recover from Edinburgh’s Monday Madness.
Wednesday 12th 7:30pm
Meet the Brewer – Toccolmatto
The Hanging Bat, 133 Lothian Rd
Further Information Tickets £20
This month’s Hanging Bat Meet the Brewer session is a bit earlier than usual, and takes place this week instead of at the end of June. You’ll want to get it in the diary though, as that particular brewer is Bruno Carilli from Toccolmatto – one of the new wave of Italian breweries making a name for themselves in the rest of Europe. This is because brewers there are re-inventing how Italians look at beer, the emergence of imaginative, small-batch producers being something of a reaction to a country dominated by lager and wine. Bruno will have six of his beers on offer, so head down to the Hanging Bat and find out exactly what Toccolmatto have to offer.
Thursday 13th [7:00pm]
Bean to the Bar – beer and chocolate at the Southern
The Southern, 22 South Clerk St
Southern website Tickets £20
On Thursday, the Southern are hosting another in their recent series of events, this one relating to the pairing of beer and chocolate. Forget about half a Guinness and a bar of Dairy Milk, the evening has been formulated in conjunction with Bruntsfield’s Chocolate Tree – and will feature beers matched to chocolate, as well as beer-flavoured chocolates. The £20 gets you five pairings, additional nibbles, and a goodie bag, and with the beers involved including Magic Rock Human Cannonball and Brooklyn Black Chocolate Stout, it’s going to be one heck of an evening.
Friday 14th [7:30pm]
Beer and Food matching event (rescheduled from the 17th of May)
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.
Friday 14th, Saturday 15th [6:00pm-11:00pm]
Currie Beer and Curry Festival
Gibson Craig Hall, Lanark Rd West
CBDRT website, tickets £15 [SOLD OUT]
Also this weekend, the Currie Balerno & District Round Table are hosting their annual beer festival at the Gibson Craig Hall on Lanark Road. The Currie Beer and Curry Festival features 20 cask ales on offer, with the food supplied by Adam Tandoori in Balerno. Although the tickets are sold out, there are places on the reserve list available for returns – email beer@cbdrt.com for availability. The £15 entry fee includes ten beer/curry tokens, and this year, third-pint measures are available.
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