Snakebite is back
Take a moment and think back to your student years. Pierce the alcohol-tinged clouds of shame and recall some of those memories. Pot Noodles. Jerry Springer. Ill-advised facial hair (for me, at least). Snakebite. Regret. Well – fast forward to modern times, and at least one of those things is making a comeback. Yes, Goatee […]
New Scottish Brewery – Forth Bridge
Launching your own brewery can be a mightily expensive business, and to scrape together the cash there are a few different paths that prospective beermakers can opt for. One option that looks to be increasingly more prevalent is crowd-funding; members of the public chip in varying amounts, and if the target is reached, the project […]
Abstrakt thought – a vertical tasting
Three years ago this April, BrewDog released the first beer in their ‘concept’ Abstrakt range – AB:01. A 10.2% vanilla bean-infused Belgian-style quadrupel, we rather liked it at the time, naming it one of our best new beers of 2010. The first half of that particular year was an interesting one for the (then) Fraserburgh […]
Highland Brewing Co to begin kegging
Rob Hill has seen pretty much every development in brewing, in a career stretching from his days as a twenty-something assistant at Moorhouse’s in Burnley, to managing his own plant on Orkney. As head brewer at the Highland Brewing Company, he’s steered one of the UK’s remotest island breweries to national acclaim – culminating in […]
Harviestoun keep the plates spinning
Breweries – the good ones, that is – are seemingly never satisfied with how things are. Whether updating the core range, making room for new hops, or re-badging an existing line – nothing is sacred. Often, of course, these things are dictated by other powers – such as issues with supply, distribution or hop performance. […]
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. […]
