Black Isle/Tim Anderson Red Hot Chilli Bock
Long name, long story. For those of you outwith the range of the culinary-tentacled beast that is BBC’s MasterChef, it’s essentially the X-Factor of cooking. There are several series, staged concurrently so they never overlap – one for celebrities, one for young chefs, and one for Joe Public. The most recent series was the latter […]
Get Luckie…
Over the last few years Scotland has developed a thriving microbrewing scene, as more and more brave souls take the plunge into something greater than homebrew. Back in 2008 Stuart McLuckie first offered up his wares to the public, from a small plant in deepest Fife. Luckie Ales may be relatively new on the scene […]
End of an era
This rather sorry-looking building represents the end of an era for Edinburgh. The old McEwans Fountain brewery is almost gone, down to the splintered remains (plus the strangely resilient chimney). It used to look like this – the huge brewery and bottling plant resembling a small power station. One of Edinburgh’s elder statesmen founded the […]
Battle of the Brewers
As a phrase, ‘Battle of the Brewers’ conjures images of notable beer producers charging around the course of Total Wipeout, while beer bloggers aim jets of Pale Ale at them, and poke them with mashing forks. Whilst that would liven up any Saturday night schedule, in reality any conflict between brewers usually takes place in […]
Natural Selection Brewing launch Finch
Earlier this week we previewed the launch of Natural Selection Brewing’s debut beer – Finch, a 6.5% ‘robust red ale’. Four students of Heriot Watt’s Brewing and Distilling postgrad course have come together to design, produce and market their own beer – from scratch – using the pilot plant at the Uni, and then the […]
From classroom to brewhouse…
(left to right) Damon Scott, Steven Kersley, Kevin Emms and Colin Lymer It may not be the most obvious career path for a beer blogger*, but in my distant and murky past lies a Masters Degree in Marine Biology. For my final year project, I was tasked with evaluating pollution recovery in the Humber Estuary. […]
