Drygate Brewery opens
There is a small elephant in the room, though – the investment the project received from the C&C Group; a company that has long held the lion’s share of drinking chips in Glasgow. But from what I gather, the suits from up the road (and it really is just up the road; the Drygate brewery […]
Craftman
Night-time. A rain-slicked alley, somewhere in the backstreets of London. A group of young hipsters scurry from one forty-tap bar to another. Their smartphones glow with latent heat, fingertips still raw from the check-ins, instagramming and tweeting. A conversation erupts, over a moment of controversy in the last bar. “Yeah, I told the guy: Orval […]
Edinburgh Beer Weekly 19/05 – 25/05
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 […]
Chasing the burn: Hauf and Hauf tasting, part one
As a proud drinking nation, Scotland has many a liquid tradition, and one of the most enduring of these is undoubtedly the half and half – or, to give it the proper title, the hauf an’ a hauf. A beer and a whisky, drunk in tandem. A half and a nip. A wee chaser. Now, […]
