BrewDog’s Alternative Festival
BrewDog, ever the contrarians, have for the last couple of years hosted their own Edinburgh-based beer festival, timed to overlap with CAMRA’s Scottish Real Ale Festival. Last year, it served as a handy change of pace from the real ale jamboree occurring (literally) round the corner. I’m still not really sure if their Edinburgh based […]
Edinburgh Beer Weekly 02/07 – 08/07
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 […]
Scottish Real Ale Festival 2012 – the beers
The Scottish Real Ale Festival is well and truly open for business – once the doors were unlocked the first hundred people had entered the venue with only thirty-five minutes having elapsed. We covered the details of how the Corn Exchange is working out for the SRAF in yesterday’s post – so today, it’s on […]
Scottish Real Ale Festival 2012 – trade session
The finalists in the bottled beer comp – can you pick a winner? The 2012 Scottish Real Ale Festival opens to the public today, in a new home at the Corn Exchange in Slateford. As with previous years, the day prior to the doors opening saw the trade session for brewers and sponsors (and bloggers), […]
New Scottish brewery – Eden at St Andrews
As we said last week (and the week before) Scotland is very much the place to be for new brewery openings. The market is flourishing as we move towards the second half of 2012 – proof that there are many thirsty people out there, keen to buy local beer. The latest arrival on the scene […]
Pairing beer with…music?
Today marks a special day in the life of the BeerCast, and for one of our panellists in particular. Having starred in several of our London-based podcasts, Jess has finally hit the bigtime with the release of her debut album. She has a fantastic amount of talent, and hopefully global domination awaits for her brand […]
