Stewart Brewing Embra – Champion Bottled Beer of Britain
There’s obviously plenty going on in London at the moment – and with the success of Sir Chris Hoy and company, Scots have had a fair bit to celebrate. Following an announcement at Olympia this afternoon, the beery world can join in the tartan back-slapping – Stewart Brewing’s Embra has today been awarded Champion Bottled […]
Are beer festivals changing?
Is there another way? This week, the nation’s largest beer-related jamboree will take place in London. The Great British Beer Festival (GBBF) is CAMRA’s annual boozy behemoth, with eight hundred real ales and imported foreign beers on offer. For 2012, the festival reverts to London Olympia – ironically due to the Olympics having sequestered Earl’s […]
Edinburgh Independents Beer Festival – in pictures!
So, the Edinburgh Independents’ Beer Festival wound up yesterday in star hangover-studded party at Holyrood 9A. The day before, I attempted to get round all eight pubs participating in the festival, taking photos on the way. Something of the homage to the excellent Walking and Crawling blog – which you really should follow, if you […]
The perils of the midweek beer festival…
Feeling a bit shaky this morning. Another fateful weekday drinking trip, led astray by the incredible range of beer on offer in Edinburgh. The evening started off, as always, with cultured discussion, before gradually sliding downhill to the inevitable homeward stagger across the Meadows. It’s all the fault of the Independent Beer Festival – organised […]
Edinburgh Independents Beer Festival Preview
The Summer of 2012 may not be remembered too fondly here in Edinburgh. Record levels of rain have soaked into the city and the people, causing flooding and an atmosphere of dour glumness. The tram debacle continues with no end in sight, as entire sections of roads are uprooted at a time, seemingly without reason. […]
BrewDog’s Alternative Festival
BrewDog, ever the contrarians, have for the last couple of years hosted their own Edinburgh-based beer festival, timed to overlap with CAMRA’s Scottish Real Ale Festival. Last year, it served as a handy change of pace from the real ale jamboree occurring (literally) round the corner. I’m still not really sure if their Edinburgh based […]
