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 […]
Bow Bar Winter Festival preview
Edinburgh – the festival city – proves once again that it’s not just August when people come together to enjoy great entertainment. The first festival of the year begins on Thursday this week – mid-January – as far removed from balmy summer weather as possible. The current blast of Arctic misery is perfect pub weather, […]
Bow Bar 2012 Oktoberfest – Preview
Edinburgh’s legendary Bow Bar may be about as far-removed from a Munich bier garden as you can get, but from tomorrow something very exciting will connect the two. Yes, that time of year has rolled around again – it’s Oktoberfest (or OktBowFest as we should call it, in today’s beer festival parlance). For eight days, […]
IndyManBeerCon 2012
A couple of months ago, I posted about the issue of whether beer festivals are changing. The ‘traditional’ church-hall style festival still has a place – the continued popularity of CAMRA events such as the SRAF and GBBF attest to this. There does, however, seem to be room for smaller, more (dare I say) intimate […]
The 2012 Stockholm Beer and Whisky Festival
Let me get this out of the way right at the start – the Stockholm Beer and Whisky Festival is simply awesome. There are several reasons why, the first of which being the most obvious – the sheer amount of unfamiliar beer on offer. Wandering around the lower hall – one wasn’t large enough for […]
Stockbridge Tap beer festival preview
Edinburgh certainly lives up to its reputation as the festival city – only last weekend the annual fireworks display signalled the end of the various month-long fringe and EIF events. Whilst for many, August means excitement, late nights and countless shows, for the beerhound, it really means four weeks of busier pubs, clogged streets and […]
