Edinburgh Beer Weekly 29/04 – 05/05
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 […]
I drink too much, apparently – do you?
I may be in the minority of British alcohol-users, in that I can reel off the recommended drinking levels for adults in the UK; no more than 21 units/wk for men, 14 units/wk for women. The recommendation also follows that there should be at least two ‘alcohol free’ days in each seven (apparently, consecutive mornings […]
The best IPA in Britain
This is, in truth, a post I’ve wanted to write for a long while. A list – my list – of the best IPA’s in Britain. The problem is, every time I sit down and riffle through the selection of names, there are more to consider. Another one arrives seemingly every week. The demand for […]
Edinburgh Beer Weekly 22/04 – 28/04
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 […]
How local does a local have to be?
A few days after you read this, I am set to move across this blustery, malt-scented city, from one side to the other. The distance isn’t that great, as the crow flies – Edinburgh being such a compact capital – so hopefully it shouldn’t take too long to trundle our possessions from old A to […]
Scaling back and upsizing – the Madcap way
These rather handsome-looking bombers might not, at first glance, tell a story – but they very much do. Madcap Brewery in Dumfries have come full-circle, and the re-branded cork and cage releases that have just hit the shelves are a testament to that. Founded back in 2009, John Maddison and his son initially fitted a […]


