Edinburgh Beer Weekly 29/07 – 04/08

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 29th
The Bow Bar Summer Beer Festival [to Sunday 4th August]
The Bow Bar, 80 West Bow
Beer List PtI, Beer List PtII

The weather may have broken a little from the uncompromising heat of the other week, but the Bow Bar’s Summer Beer Festival is still running along as per usual for this time of year. Irrespective of the weather outside, in the cool, quiet interior of the Bow, beer is king. Check out the two Tweets listed above for the full beer list, and follow the Bow to find out what’s on the taps when. As ever, expect to find the best and most-up-to-date mix of thoughtful British cask ale and kegged beer.

Monday 29th 8:00pm
Meet the Brewer – Robert Knops
Appellation Wines, 43 Dalry Road
Appellation Wines website tickets £10

Also on Monday, Dalry’s Appellation Wines is the place to be, as the Archerfield Ace himself, Robert ‘call me Bob’ Knops is in town. Head along for a great Meet the Brewer session, try some of Bob’s great beers, and find out how he’s faring in his multi-million pound brewery in exotic East Lothian. Bob’s never short of a story or two, so it should be a great night.

Sour Fest at BrewDog Edinburgh
BrewDog Edinburgh, Cowgate

On Wednesday, head to BrewDog for a night of sour beers from the Uk and overseas. Lynn from BrewDog sent this over…”We’re having a bit of a sour beer hollapalooza on Wednesday the 31st.The beers kick off at 6pm, are all lowish  ABV so great for a school night!

On keg well have:
Brodies fruits of the forest
Brodies barrel aged London sour blueberry
Brodies Brett IPA
Brodies/Brewdog Berliner Weisse
Cantillon rose de gambrinus

We also got a massive stock of Cantillon bottles in recently!

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!