Competition – win tickets to Great Grog’s Bottled Beer Fair
Great Grog’s annual Edinburgh beer fair is taking place once again – on Saturday the 14th of September, at Cafe Camino (just behind John Lewis, at the Omni Centre entrace). From 1-6pm, at least a dozen Scottish micro-breweries will be pouring free samples of their beers, and talking ticket-holders through their philosophies and brewing processes. […]
Heineken – selling beer to old people since 2013
Big beer. Whisper it – or shout it from the rooftops if you like – but they are in trouble. People are buying less macro-lager these days, as year on year the same generic blandness fails to impress. Drinkers move on, get bored, or buy what’s cheapest. There’s no identity with the many, competing, brands. […]
Edinburgh Beer Weekly 02/09 – 08/09
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 […]
Ruination IPA redux; reasons to re-boot?
A couple of weeks ago, this article appeared on the American beer news website BeerPulse, regarding a release issued from California’s Stone Brewing Company. Stone intend to increase the abv on Ruination IPA from 7.7% to 8.2%, a decision explained by their co-founder, Greg Koch:- We brewed some batches at the slightly higher ABV and […]
What will Williams Brothers’ £1m bottling expansion mean?
Over the weekend, news broke in the Herald that Williams Brothers brewery are expanding, and increasing the scope of their Alloa bottling plant to the tune of £1 million. This seven-figure investment sum increases their capacity by 60%, and will see Williams Bros produce over 8 million bottles a year, or 41,600HL (all figures from […]
Quaffing Gravy
A riddle, wrapped in an enigma, inside a screen-printed bottle. A beer launched by an art director and partner, aimed to be an ‘easy-drinking pale ale’, yet thrust into the market with a grunt of the hips and a sweat-laced high-five. A website with more t-shirts on sale than beers, linked to quirky tumblr accounts […]
