Drygate Brewery opens
There is a small elephant in the room, though – the investment the project received from the C&C Group; a company that has long held the lion’s share of drinking chips in Glasgow. But from what I gather, the suits from up the road (and it really is just up the road; the Drygate brewery […]
Chasing the burn: Hauf and Hauf tasting, part one
As a proud drinking nation, Scotland has many a liquid tradition, and one of the most enduring of these is undoubtedly the half and half – or, to give it the proper title, the hauf an’ a hauf. A beer and a whisky, drunk in tandem. A half and a nip. A wee chaser. Now, […]
New Edinburgh Brewery – Carbon Smith Brewing
‘Look out for a massive black dog if my Dad gets there first. I’m talking HUGE dog’ reads the DM, as I’m checking Twitter, waiting for each half of Carbon Smith Brewing to arrive for a chat. Edinburgh’s newest brewery (since the last one), are based overlooking the Meadows – so a pint in Cloisters […]
The Forth Bridge Brewery – are their plans for real?
Just over a year ago, I wrote about a brand new brewery, proposed for the North Queensferry area, overlooking the Forth Estuary. Dave Robertson was planning to establish the Forth Bridge Brewery in Inverkeithing, with crowd-funding being used to get him the necessary capital to get the venture underway. Using the carrot of ‘beer for […]
