Edinburgh Beer Weekly 25/08 – 31/08

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?

Continuing from last week

Monday 25th [to Sun 31st]
Cloisters’ Scottish Beer Festival, final week
Cloisters Bar, 26 Brougham St
Cloisters Twitter feed

Keep a beady eye tuned to the Cloisters Bar Twitter feed this week, as their Scottish Beer Festival comes to an end over the course of the next seven days. If you haven’t made it along so far, you’ve missed out on a lot of fantastic Scottish real ale and kegged beer, including the blink and you missed it Pilot Beer Parma Violence (also missed by myself). Still, there will be plenty of consolation available with the final week’s lineup; push on through to Sunday.

Monday 25th 8:00pm
A-Z of Beer at Appellation – B
Appellation Wines, 43 Dalry Road
Appellation Wines website tickets £10

Following on from the debut of their A-Z feature two weeks ago, in the second running, the Appellation Wines team turn to…B. Craig and the guys at the Dalry branch will be rifling through terminology and beer styles starting with the alphabet’s second letter. So expect, Belgium, Bock, Black IPA amongst others. What price a Boring Brown Bitter?

Friday 29th [to Sun 31st]
1st Buckstone Beer Festival
Buckstone Pub & Kitchen, 134 Braid Rd
Website Tickets £3/£4 (see below)

As the Cloisters’ festival runs into its final weekend, two miles to the south, another beer festival is set to begin. The Buckstone Pub and Kitchen, adjacent to the Braid Hills Hotel, will be opening the special taps at 6pm on the Friday, and pouring some great beers all weekend, until 8pm on the Sunday. Those will include notables such as Fallen Model Motive, Stewart Summer Beat, Sonnet 43 Bourbon Milk Stout, and one of the last casks of Natural Selection Brewing ‘Mutiny on the Beagle’ in existence. Your £3 advance ticket, or £4 on the door, includes your first half, and there will be a hog roast on Saturday.

Saturday 30th 7:00pm
Meet the Founders – Lagunitas
The Hanging Bat, 133 Lothian Rd
Further Information Tickets FREE

Whilst that hog is roasting away, back two miles in the other direction the Hanging Bat are having one of their non-ticketed, anything-goes Saturday night Meet the Brewer Events. In town for one night, Tony McGee and Ron Fraser, owners and founders of Lagunitas Brewing Company, will be holding court and talking to all and sundry about their brewing philosophy, their recent incredible expansion, and anything and everything else. As you’d expect, on the bar will be plenty of their beers, so head down to the Bat and dive in.

Sunday 31st
Bothy Beer Fest at Cloisters
Cloisters Bar, 26 Brougham St
Cloisters Twitter feed

As the Cloisters’ festival ends, they are rounding things off with a special, bespoke event (hence the separate listing). Sunday sees Barry and the team putting on a Bothy Beer Fest – a mountain climbing-themed event, raising money for Mountain Rescue charities. On the bar will be a couple of exclusives – a new beer from Highland Brewing Co called ‘Old Man of Hoy’, and ‘9b+’ – a one-off brewed by the Cloisters’ staff at Stewart Brewing’s Craft Beer Kitchen. If you can’t reference the climbing term it is named after, then watch this video – although not if you suffer from vertigo…

Sunday 31st
The Southern Bar homebrew competition closes
The Southern, 22 South Clerk St
Southern Twitter Feed

Just a quick note that Sunday is the final day the Southern Bar are accepting entries for their 2nd annual homebrew competition. If you have a couple of bottles of your best and proudest kitchen creation sitting about – get in touch with the Southern and enter them! The winning beer will be brewed commercially by Stewart Brewing, as last year’s winner – the acclaimed First World Problems – was. Who will come out on top this year?

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!