Nicholsons Christmas Beer – Sleigh Driver
Christmas. One inevitable facet of the year-end festivities is that they bring people together. Families. Elbow-jousting shoppers. Baileys-fuelled office party-goers. Whether you like it or not, groups get together at Christmas, and (more likely as not) turn to drink. Quite obviously, the best place to be when this human urge to congregate occurs is in […]
Would you like another drink?
Everyone who writes, blogs, podcasts or just plain enjoys drinking beer knows that many of our pubs are struggling at the moment. You talk to publicans, and ask them how things are going, and there’s that momentary pause, the puffing of the cheeks, before the answer. Some just flat out say ‘it’s been quiet in […]
The beer geek pub quiz at the Holyrood 9A
Ahh, the pub quiz. One of the warm traditions of British life. The elbows-together attitude of people hunched around too-small tables, brows furrowed with concentration. The other groups that really don’t care, happy only to come up with as smutty a team name as possible. Everyone else, trying to just get a few right, bothered […]
If you can’t beat them…?
@BeoirOrg 3 of my beerlines cut. Suspicion is 1 of the big commercial breweries Will I roll over and take this??? pic.twitter.com/xA447ZRhAG — Brú Brewery (@BruBrewery) November 3, 2013 Of all the tweets that I saw over the weekend, this one in particular stood out. Posted on Sunday afternoon by an Irish microbrewery based in […]
New Edinburgh bar – Jeremiah’s Taproom
Edinburgh’s Elm Row has always seemed, to me, to be a curiously inconsistent street, what with regular shops such as Johnson’s the Cleaners and William Hill squeezed in amongst institutions like Valvona & Crolla, and the on-trend Euro-charm of Joseph Pearce’s. Slightly out of the way and hidden from view, thanks to the run of […]
Adam
The first sign of Adam’s arrival is the pause, as the door opens. Then, slowly, a wheelchair prods its way carefully through the opening. Eventually, the empty chair is pushed into the pub by its owner – a stooped, white haired man, dressed always in a blazer, jumper and shirt. Adam creeps across the threshold […]
