BrewDog/Mikkeller Devine Rebel 2010
Collaborations are without doubt a great idea when it comes to brewing – two different mindsets, two different approaches, many different flavours. The US Craft Brewing scene in particular embrace the sharing of ideas when it comes to one-off specials – Sierra Nevada and Dogfish Head with their ‘Life & Limb’ series, New Belgium and […]
Windie Goat Brewery closed
Some sad news for Scottish brewing reached us this week, with the announcement of the closure of the Windie Goat Brewery. They had been attached to the Failford Inn in South Ayrshire, located in the tiny village of the same name about ten miles east of Prestwick. Like so many fledgling breweries that became successful, […]
Thoughts on Sink the Bismarck
Well, the dust seems to have settled slightly around the blogosphere following the latest announcement from Fraserburgh’s BrewDog a few days ago. I’ve been reading as many articles on the forthcoming Sink the Bismarck (41%) as I can, and have been digesting the various opinions on the Aberdeenshire twosome re-taking the strongest beer in the […]
BrewDog Tactical Nuclear Penguin (32.0%)
There’s really no escaping Fraserburgh’s BrewDog at the moment. The unorthodox twosome from the Aberdeenshire coastline must account for more column inches than all other Scottish brewers combined. Of course, we’re no different – we’ve featured and reviewed several of their beers over the last couple of years. With our recent 2009 Beer of the […]
New from Stewart
After the Caledonian, Loanhead’s Stewart Brewery are probably the closest producer to BeerCast headquarters in Edinburgh. Throughout the real ale pubs in the city, their beers such as Edinburgh Gold and Copper Cascade are found fairly regularly. Within the last few weeks they have launched a new range of bottle-conditioned beers, so we had to […]
Williams 80/-
Scotland has given many things to the world relating to drink – single malt whisky, Shetland gin, Irn-Bru, Rabb C Nesbitt – but also the distinctive Scottish Ale, and the Shilling scale of classification. Growing our beer knowledge in Scotland, from young students knocking back subsidised £1.20 pints of McEwans 70/- in Uni bars, we’ve […]
