Edinburgh Beer Weekly 25/11 – 01/12
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 25th 8:00pm
Best of British at Appellation CB
Appellation Wines, 43 Dalry Road
Appellation Wines website tickets £10
Monday’s Appellation tasting features the very best of British beers. There’s so much great stuff going on in the UK brewing scene at the moment; hopefully as regular readers will know. Head along to Comely Bank and get tasting some of the pace-setters from our fantastic brewers.
Wednesday 27th [7:30pm]
Meet the Brewer: Alechemy/Elixir
Holyrood 9A, Holyrood Rd
Speaking of pace-setters, a couple of nights later, there’s a chance to meet up with two of the most experimental brewers in Scotland – Alechemy and Elixir. Since opening up a couple of years ago, James Davies has taken them from strength to strength, and has recently expanded again. Elixir is the brainchild of Ben Bullen and Barry Robertson, and the beers they come up with are truly unique. Expect to see this year’s Minception on the bar, as well as the legendary chilli version, Mincendiary Device.
Thursday 28th
Stewart Brewing Flight Night
The Southern, 22 South Clerk St
Southern Bar Twitter feed
On Thursday, The Southern Bar are hosting a ‘Flight Night’ in conjunction with Loanhead’s finest, Stewart Brewing. From £3.50, you’ll be able to purchase three thirds of Stewarts’ beers – including such notables as Ka Pai IPA, Radical Road, First World Problems and Coconut Porter. Raffles tickets and prizes will be up for grabs, head along to the Southern to catch up on the latest beers from Stewart Brewing, in easy-to-sample sizes.
Thursday 28th [to Dec 1st]
Dark Beer Challenge
The Bow Bar, 80 West Bow
Bow Bar Twitter feed
After the success of the Bow’s IPA Challenge back in June, the seasonal change has necessitated in a dark version. Yes, from Thursday onwards, multiple dark beers will be served anonymously at the Bow, for punters to rank purely according to taste. Once all the beers have gone on, a winner will be announced. Which will come out on top? Over to you…
Friday 29th [to Sunday 1st]
St Andrew’s weekend at the Southern
The Southern, 22 South Clerk St
Southern Bar Twitter feed
The Southern are going all-in this week, as following the Stewart Flight Night, the taps will be turned around to a selection of Scottish microbreweries, in time for that most patriotic of nights – St Andrew’s Night. Forget St Pat’s, and head along to the Southern and keep it Scottish. As part of this, they have secured access to a one-off keg of Innis & Gunn’s Scottish Pale Ale, which will be tapped on the Saturday.
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!
