Edinburgh Beer Weekly 23/06 – 29/06
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 23rd 8:00pm
Lagers at Appellation CB
Appellation Wines, Comely Bank Road
Appellation Wines website tickets £10
Monday’s tasting at Appellation Wines Comely Bank revolves around the most successful beer style of all. In all its guises, the lager has come to dominate the world. Find out how, and why, and taste some classic – and very different – examples, such as German Helles, Czech Pilsners, and hopped-up American Craft Lagers.
Wednesday 25th 7:00pm
Meet the Brewer – Kinneil Brew Hoose
Winston’s Lounge, 20 Kirk Loan, Corstorphine
Winston’s website
Tryst and Stewart Brewing have featured, now this Wednesday Winston’s Lounge are hosting a tap takeover from a brewery seen less often in the capital – West Lothian’s Kinneil Brew Hoose. Head along and find out what they have been up to recently, how things are going at the Corbie Inn, and chat with the Kinneil team.
Thursday 26th [7:30pm]
Shilling Group Brew-off at Thomson’s
Thomson’s Bar, 182-184 Morrison St
Further Information
On Thursday, there’s a battle of the (pub) brewers taking place at Thomson’s on Morrison Street. Four of Edinburgh’s Shilling Group establishments have taken a turn to produce a beer on Stewart Brewing’s Craft Beer Kitchen, and you can head down and help pick a winner. There’ll be a blind-tasting of all four beers before the voting. Who will win? The Cross and Corner, Golden Rule, the Fountain – or will homefield advantage work for Thomson’s?
Thursday 26th [to Sunday 29th]
Alechemy Brewing Company Showcase
The Guildford Arms, 1 West Register St
Alechemy Brewing Company Twitter.
Also on Thursday (but continuing all weekend) – the Guildford Arms will be featuring beers from one of our local producers – Livingston’s Alechemy Brewing Company. On the bar – Starlaw, Ritual Pale, Mosaic Burst, and their new Ahtanum, Chinook and Columbus IPA, Up & Atom. All the beers will be on at £2.50 a pint, while they last. Don’t be surprised if they don’t last long!
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!
