Flower Power
Hipsters and craft beer – they go together like…artisan peanut butter and jelly made from a fruit you’ve never heard of. That modern conjoining of the pejorative group du jour and the ultimate in beery buzzwords. All you have to do is Google Image search the first four words of this paragraph and you’ll be […]
Moving Day
They say it’s the most stressful thing that you can do. Moving a houseful of beer. Yes, whilst others are gamefully pulling on Jeremy Corbyn diorama hats at GBBF or side-stepping flyer-giving teenagers on the Royal Mile, the agenda in our particular part of the world has been packing up everything we own to move […]
Kelburn Jaguar; second best beer in Britain
The winners of the annual Champion Beer of Britain (CBoB) were announced yesterday afternoon at the Great British Beer Festival at London’s Olympia – and there was something to cheer for Scottish beer drinkers, as Renfrewshire’s Kelburn Brewery were awarded Champion Golden Ale before going on to win the overall CBoB Silver medal for their […]
“People say we add rice because it’s cheap. This isn’t true”
The words of Mark Yocum, Director of Quality for North America at Anheuser-Busch InBev, at the recent Beer Bloggers and Writers Conference in Asheville, North Carolina. The full quote: “The quality of the rice we use is high, therefore rice is not inexpensive at all. You know that with a light lager, there is not […]
Two more Scottish breweries to open bars
Everything happens in threes, as they say – and a mere handful of days since Innis & Gunn took the plunge and opened their first bar, on Lothian Road in Edinburgh, two other prominent Scottish breweries have announced plans to do something similar; almost literally around the corner from each other. Beer drinkers of Inverness […]
