New Edinburgh bar – Jeremiah’s Taproom
Edinburgh’s Elm Row has always seemed, to me, to be a curiously inconsistent street, what with regular shops such as Johnson’s the Cleaners and William Hill squeezed in amongst institutions like Valvona & Crolla, and the on-trend Euro-charm of Joseph Pearce’s. Slightly out of the way and hidden from view, thanks to the run of […]
New CAMRA Edinburgh/SE Scotland real ale guide released
Three hundred and seventy-five public houses. Sounds like an awful lot – and it certainly is, of course. That’s how many there are that serve real ale in Edinburgh, the Lothians and Borders area, apparently. Running a pub can still be a huge struggle, despite the recent easing of alcohol duty and opening hours – […]
Superstars of Brewing
*Jaunty Music* Hello! Good evening ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, and welcome to Superstars of Brewing! Rodney Dangermouse here with you once again, with – as ever – Mikey ‘Spargearm’ McSaison alongside me. Tonight, we’ve got another fascinating heat to look forward to, as brewers from different parts of the UK gather together to […]
Edinburgh Beer Weekly 29/07 – 04/08
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 […]
BrewDog pick a fight they can’t lose. Again
It’s been fairly quiet of late, up in Ellon. As in BrewDog have been quietly fitting out their enormous space-age brewery, quietly bringing outsourced operations back in house, and quietly releasing some impressive beers (Jackhammer, Hello my Name is Beastie). However – and stop me if you’ve heard this before – the other day they […]
Cool as a Cucumber – beers from the fridge
With no apparent end in sight to ‘HeatWave2013: The Summer of Vengeance’* these sultry, sticky times call for increasingly desperate measures. One of the straws that major lager companies cling to is that their fizz has the power to refresh, something we can all appreciate in weather like this. But, whether you partake of their […]
