New Scottish Brewery – Elixir Brewing Co
I had an idea about how it should taste, and this is pretty close As we’ve discussed many times before – and with increasing regularity these days – the major downside of jumping into the contract-brewing game is that you really aren’t sure how that keenly-awaited first batch will turn out. With a home-brewing background […]
New beers from Fallen Brewing Co
Three months ago, we interviewed Paul Fallen – the man behind Fallen Brewing Company – as his new start-up operation was about to receive their first contracted run of beer. Produced at the Traditional Scottish Ales facility in Throsk, the debut release was a 5% peat-smoked porter (Blackhouse) – an unusual launch style in a […]
New Scottish brewery – Brewmeister
British brewing is certainly becoming a crowded marketplace these days – as we saw last week, there are now over 1,000 commercial producers shoehorned onto these thirsty islands. In order to stand out, you need to do one of several things (or, ideally, more than one). You can shout very loudly (mentioning no names). You […]
New Scottish brewery – Innocente Brewing Co
Talented home-brewers now have several routes to seeing their beers being served in pubs and appearing on the shelves of our bottle shops. The most terrifying is surely to bite the bullet and compile an enormous mound of cash for a shiny brew kit. Another option, as we saw last week, is to enter competitions […]
IBD Scottish homebrew winners revealed
There was a time, once, when home-brewing was all about providing easy access to cheap beer. Back when I was growing up, we used to head round to a friend’s house specifically because his father had a cellar full of grimy, sweating bottles of varying levels of lethality. It was making alcohol for alcohol’s sake […]
Scotland’s most overrated beers?
Last week, we brought you the five most underrated beers in Scotland – a post which generated a fair bit of debate, and resulted in several different breweries being mentioned (Kelburn, Fyne Ales and Williams Brothers all featuring highly). After posting, my mind turned to the other side of that equation – opinions should be […]
