Halfway to Orkney
The other Friday we ventured out into a muggy Edinburgh night to celebrate the famous festival. Not the Fringe, or the International, but the Halfway House’s Beer Festival. Each week in August the smallest and friendliest pub in Edinburgh™ showcases a different Scottish brewer and blankets the hand pumps with their offerings. For the final […]
Scottish Beer Festival 2008
In our recent preview of the 2008 Scottish Real Ale Festival I wrote that we were all looking forward to trying some new things, as it’s really the main reason for going along. Last year’s festival (the review of which is here) was something of an eye-opener to the BeerCast – we’d only just started […]
Scottish Beer Festival 2008 Lineup
Summer’s here, and the boozy festival season is upon us once again. We like a beer festival or two here at the BeerCast – recently CraigAS partook of some fascinating tipples at the 2008 Montreal Mondial de la biere, including a revelatory experience with a black IPA. You can also read his report on the […]
Sacre Bleu: Part Deux!
Montreal Beer Festival: 28 May – 1 June 2008 No this isn’t part two of a two-part report for which I have forgotten to submit the first installment. I headlined last year’s report “Sacre Bleu!” and just couldn’t resist employing the Hot Shots reference. Far from being Part Deux, this is in fact my third […]
Wetherspoon’s Real Ale Festival
The world’s biggest beer festival is running at the moment, up and down the UK (until the 14th of April). How they quantify that, I don’t know, but the good folks at JD Wetherspoon are having a celebration of real ale that even the BeerCast felt compelled to attend. I say ‘even the BeerCast’ because […]
