Edinburgh Beer Weekly 13/01 – 19/01

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?

Tuesday 14th 7:30pm
Meet the Brewer – Wild Beer Co
The Hanging Bat, 133 Lothian Rd
Further Information Tickets SOLD OUT (see below)

The first Hanging Bat meet the brewer of 2014 promises to be a real treat for those who love barrel-aged beers in general, and Wild Beer Co in particular. Somerset’s finest are making the long trek up to Edinburgh, and are bringing a huge amount of treats with them. For the first time in HB MTB history, every single beer on offer will have been aged in wood, and the Wild Beer guys will be giving a talk on the pros and cons of using barrels to add flavour and depth to brewing. The tickets have all gone, but the beers will be there for one and all.

Wednesday 15th
Session Beer Showcase
26 Cloisters Bar, Brougham St
Cloisters Bar on Twitter

In a neat flipside to the barrel-aged hugeness of the night before, on Wednesday head to Cloisters Bar for a dedicated evening of session beers. For one night, nothing over 4%abv, giving you the chance to appreciate (should you need it) low strength needn’t equate to low flavour. As an extra twist, the beers will be served anonymised, akin to the Bow Bar’s blind tasting festival, to give you a chance to just go with the tastebuds.

Wednesday 15th 7:00pm
Beer and food matching evening
Blackfriars, 57-61 Blackfriars St
Further Information Tickets 0131 558 8684

The Wild Beer Co team are staying on after their Hanging Bat event, and on the Wednesday are popping up at Blackfriars for a pairing event. Head along to one of Edinburgh’s newest beer-friendly restaurants for a night of fantastic matches involving dishes such as Roe deer loin, salt baked roots, onion and greens (full menu in link above).

Thursday 16th 8:00pm
Launch of Stewart Brewing Cascadian East
Jeremiah’s Taproom, Elm Row
Jeremiah’s Taproom Twitter feed

The following evening, Loanhead’s Stewart Brewing are launching the latest in their range of hopped-up beers; Cascadian East. This stablemate to Radical Road, Black IPA and Ka Pai is going to be the house beer at Jeremiah’s Taproom on Elm Row, so that’s the place to head if you want to try it. At 5.4% and triple C-hopped, there should be no shortage of takers. The event starts at 8pm.

Thursday 16th 7:30pm
Meet the Distiller – Chase
The Hanging Bat, 133 Lothian Rd
Further Information Tickets £25 (available here)

It’s all go at the Hanging Bat this week, with the second event to take place there coming on Thursday, and it’s the latest in their Meet the Distiller evenings. Beer does feature though, as alongside the spirits, bespoke beers are produced in homage to the distillers, using their botanicals. This time, the team from Chase will be in conversation, and they will be bringing their range of gins, vodkas and other goodies along as well. Tickets are still available, book using the link above.

Thursday 16th
Keep it Local weekend at the Holyrood
Holyrood 9A, Holyrood Rd
Holyrood 9A Twitter feed

Finally, over the coming weekend the Holyrood 9A will be throwing their rotational taps over purely to some local, well-made Scottish beers. In a mini-festival, expect to find notables from breweries such as Alechemy, Cromarty, Elixir, Fyne Ales, Highland, Stewart Brewing and Tempest. And that, I think you’ll agree, is as good a lineup of breweries as you could hope to find anywhere…

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