Cail’s lore
This blog post was initially going to be very different – a pictorial of the Harviestoun Brewery, taken during a recent Guild of Beer Writers’ tour of their facility in Alva. Instead, in a complete switch of the usual ‘picture is worth a thousand words’ mantra, it’s going to be simply a series of quotes. […]
The Caledonian Brewery – in pictures
It’s easy to look at the British brewing scene through craft-tinted spectacles, claiming that now is the best time there’s ever been. As we romp towards eighty breweries in Scotland, with new arrivals every week, keyboard superheroes* like myself get to make bold proclamations that we are living in the moment; that it doesn’t get […]
Edinburgh Beer Weekly 04/02 – 10/02
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 […]
Black Isle go Cold Turkey
Back in late 2010, the Government announced they were to raise alcohol duty on all beers over 7.5%abv, ostensibly to tackle ‘problem drinking’. At the same time, they revealed a plan to cut duty on beers brewed at 2.8% or under – to promote lower strength alternatives. I wondered at the time if any of […]
Sainsbury’s Great British Beer Hunt to return in 2013
At the start of the week, it was announced that the Sainsbury’s Great British Beer Hunt was to begin again, back for another year. I attended the regional heat for last year’s competition, and found it to be an interesting way to judge beer, certainly very different to the normal beer festival-based competitions. The reason […]
BeerCast brewday with…DemonBrew
Following our first two brewdays – with Alechemy and Ayr Brewing Companies, for our third we got to stay a little closer to Edinburgh. In fact, our destination was within sight of our home (apart from Calum, who resides in the luxuriant ‘burbs of Falkirk). A few miles around the curving coast of the outer […]
