Art meets Craft: introducing the Drygate Brewery
There’s something fitting about launching a new Glasgow brewery in a gallery, I think. Looking over at the city from the easterly end of the M8, it always comes across as a boiling cauldron of creativity. That’s probably due to being drawn through every now and again for Events (with a capital E); gigs, exhibitions, […]
Exclusive – Edinburgh’s Hanging Bat to launch dual-brand brewery
Around fifteen months ago, the Hanging Bat opened its doors for the first time, adding yet another fantastic beer bar to the city’s drinking scene. Plenty was written about how the Bat was different (not least by me), but you always got the impression that the Lothian Road site wasn’t going to be the endgame; […]
Battle of the Brewers IV
Can Stewart Brewing be stopped? Apparently not, it would seem. Last night, once again, they crushed the opposition in their Battle of the Brewers challenge, this time held concurrently in Edinburgh’s Holyrood 9A and Glasgow’s Inn Deep (I can imagine the Williamsii present taking a sip of each and tutting, wistfully). Following a Balboa-esque one-two-three […]
Is Arran’s latest plan beginning to slip?
Every year, in my January-beginning breweries to watch post, I tip Arran as one to follow over the twelve months ahead. This is based purely on the number of schemes and ideas that the island brewery put out there; projects, pleas, plans for the future. Providing it keeps overall production under the 500,000 litre duty […]
Brewmeister reveal a new look. But how ‘new’ is it?
January isn’t even in the books yet, but already 2014 is shaping up to be a year when disputes, challenges, and general sniping become much more of an issue in the UK beer world. As the inexorable rise in the number of breweries continues, inevitably toes are stood on*, sabres are rattled, and the protagonists […]
New (bottled) Brew Friday
As ever, it’s fairly tough to keep up with all the news coming out of the Scottish beer scene at the moment. However, by anyone’s standards, today has seen the presses whirring at double quick time (or the modern equivalent. Servers, I suppose). In a strange, yet rather lovely, co-incidence, the brewers of Scotland seem […]
