Get Luckie…
Over the last few years Scotland has developed a thriving microbrewing scene, as more and more brave souls take the plunge into something greater than homebrew. Back in 2008 Stuart McLuckie first offered up his wares to the public, from a small plant in deepest Fife. Luckie Ales may be relatively new on the scene […]
Citrus isn’t the only fruit…
Today is #IPADay – a hash-tag friendly Twitter campaign to pull people into drinking decent beer, and away from macrolager, Pimms, battery acid, water etc etc. Educating the masses is one of the great goals of the American craft beer industry, fighting through a tide of Bud Light. Similarly, over here the real ale brewers […]
End of an era
This rather sorry-looking building represents the end of an era for Edinburgh. The old McEwans Fountain brewery is almost gone, down to the splintered remains (plus the strangely resilient chimney). It used to look like this – the huge brewery and bottling plant resembling a small power station. One of Edinburgh’s elder statesmen founded the […]
Battle of the Brewers
As a phrase, ‘Battle of the Brewers’ conjures images of notable beer producers charging around the course of Total Wipeout, while beer bloggers aim jets of Pale Ale at them, and poke them with mashing forks. Whilst that would liven up any Saturday night schedule, in reality any conflict between brewers usually takes place in […]
Laško Dark
We’re well into the midst of the UK holiday season now (to our American friends, this means the time of year when us Brits escape the rain, not open presents). As such, no self-respecting beer website would be without a post regarding a strangely-titled Eurolager that whilst we’d never consider buying over here, put us […]
Natural Selection Brewing launch Finch
Earlier this week we previewed the launch of Natural Selection Brewing’s debut beer – Finch, a 6.5% ‘robust red ale’. Four students of Heriot Watt’s Brewing and Distilling postgrad course have come together to design, produce and market their own beer – from scratch – using the pilot plant at the Uni, and then the […]
