Utopian dream
Just over a year ago a certain Scottish brewer released the final iteration of what had become an inevitable, and somewhat tiresome, brewing arms race. The desire to produce stronger and stronger beer served to garner a lot of publicity for BrewDog (and erstwhile rivals Schorschbräu), and was all pretty predictable. Like a beery equivalent […]
Grrr…
BrewDog certainly like to blow their own trumpet – my goodness do they ever – but if you can filter out the punk-nonsense they have a number of interesting ideas. Having one eye keenly focused over the Atlantic at all times (understandable given the styles of beer they create), they have latched on to a […]
Get Luckie…
Over the last few years Scotland has developed a thriving microbrewing scene, as more and more brave souls take the plunge into something greater than homebrew. Back in 2008 Stuart McLuckie first offered up his wares to the public, from a small plant in deepest Fife. Luckie Ales may be relatively new on the scene […]
Citrus isn’t the only fruit…
Today is #IPADay – a hash-tag friendly Twitter campaign to pull people into drinking decent beer, and away from macrolager, Pimms, battery acid, water etc etc. Educating the masses is one of the great goals of the American craft beer industry, fighting through a tide of Bud Light. Similarly, over here the real ale brewers […]
End of an era
This rather sorry-looking building represents the end of an era for Edinburgh. The old McEwans Fountain brewery is almost gone, down to the splintered remains (plus the strangely resilient chimney). It used to look like this – the huge brewery and bottling plant resembling a small power station. One of Edinburgh’s elder statesmen founded the […]
Battle of the Brewers
As a phrase, ‘Battle of the Brewers’ conjures images of notable beer producers charging around the course of Total Wipeout, while beer bloggers aim jets of Pale Ale at them, and poke them with mashing forks. Whilst that would liven up any Saturday night schedule, in reality any conflict between brewers usually takes place in […]
