Bottled BeerCast Awards – Speciality Beers
One of our shortlistees, Heather Ales Kelpie We’re four categories in to our daily alternative SIBA Awards here on the BeerCast – where we take a look at some other great bottled Scottish beers that could have made the finals. Our section today is that enormous beery catchall – Speciality Beers – any drink that […]
Bottled BeerCast Awards – Gold Beers
One of our shortlistees, Arran Blonde King Midas and Spandau Ballet always believed in it – and our third daily series of alternative SIBA shortlistings concentrates on Gold Beers. Golden ales, golden pale ales – light, hoppy thirst quenchers that were born for cask but do just as well in the bottle. The actual SIBA […]
Bottled BeerCast Awards – 5% and over
One of our shortlistees – BrewDog 5am Saint The next in our series of nominations for the BeerCast’s alternative SIBA awards ramps up the alcohol as we move into the second category – Bitters 5% and over. In the actual SIBA competition, that prize went to Stewart Brewing’s Hollyrood (5.0%) – which of course went […]
Bottled BeerCast Awards – up to 4.9%
One of our shortlistees – Knops California Common On Friday Stewart Brewing’s Hollyrood was awarded the Gold for best Scottish bottled beer at the SIBA awards in Edinburgh. If you read our post, you’ll know that we were in attendance on the judging panel – and had a pretty good (not to mention difficult) time […]
Stewart Brewing Hollyrood wins again…
On Friday there was further good news for Loanhead’s Stewart Brewing, as their 5% pale ale Hollyrood was named Champion bottled beer of Scotland. It will now go on to the national SIBA finals in February to take on the other regional champs from around the UK. MrB and myself were in attendance for the […]
BrewDog opening in Edinburgh
This afternoon Fraserburgh’s BrewDog announced that their second bar would be opening in Edinburgh, following the Aberdeen flagship that began trading in October. After a search of several cities, the unlikely facade of the old Chasers Bar in the Cowgate was chosen. I say unlikely – being based in Edinburgh we’ve seen Little Saigon* in […]
