Growler fills – now at the Beerhive
Pete pouring the Summer Wine Half Wit Word filtered through to us recently about something unusual appearing in one of Edinburgh’s bottle shops. To see it for yourself, you need to fight past the pipe-strewn battlefield of York Place to Broughton Street. Down in Cannonmills, away from the grimy roadworks, is the recently opened Beerhive. […]
The Price of Craft?
What’s the most expensive beer in the pubs of Britain? The other day, for example, I saw one advertised in the city for £6.40 – the priciest pint I think I’ve yet witnessed in Edinburgh. Fair enough, it was an imported beer in an establishment that usually runs to a high retail price – but […]
BrewDog’s Alternative Festival
BrewDog, ever the contrarians, have for the last couple of years hosted their own Edinburgh-based beer festival, timed to overlap with CAMRA’s Scottish Real Ale Festival. Last year, it served as a handy change of pace from the real ale jamboree occurring (literally) round the corner. I’m still not really sure if their Edinburgh based […]
Edinburgh Beer Weekly 02/07 – 08/07
Welcome to the latest Edinburgh Beer Weekly! Every Sunday we’ll be posting a preview of all the beery happenings in the city for the next seven days – so you won’t miss a thing. You can sign up to our subscription service, ensuring you’ll get a notification every Sunday when the Edinburgh Beer Weekly is […]
Scottish Real Ale Festival 2012 – the beers
The Scottish Real Ale Festival is well and truly open for business – once the doors were unlocked the first hundred people had entered the venue with only thirty-five minutes having elapsed. We covered the details of how the Corn Exchange is working out for the SRAF in yesterday’s post – so today, it’s on […]
Scottish Real Ale Festival 2012 – trade session
The finalists in the bottled beer comp – can you pick a winner? The 2012 Scottish Real Ale Festival opens to the public today, in a new home at the Corn Exchange in Slateford. As with previous years, the day prior to the doors opening saw the trade session for brewers and sponsors (and bloggers), […]
