Scottish Real Ale Festival – Trade Session
The Scottish Real Ale Festival begins in earnest tomorrow at noon, but the preview night trade session took place today at Adam House in Edinburgh. Thanks to organiser Owen, the BeerCast secured an invite, and we arrived just in time to witness the award session for the 2011 SIBA Awards. Nine different breweries took home […]
FyneFest 2011
Beer festivals needn’t always take place in musty town halls on the local high street. Rather than bringing the beer to the punters, some brewers make the drinkers do the legwork. Argyll’s Fyne Ales are based on a farm at the head of Loch Fyne, and when you have surroundings like that it makes sense […]
Scottish Real Ale Festival 2011 Lineup
We’re well into beer festival season at the moment, and next week all attention north of the border will turn to the big one – the Scottish Real Ale Festival, held every year in Edinburgh. This year it will be held at Adam House on Chambers Street between the 16th and the 18th of June. […]
Black Isle Organic Pairing
For as long as anyone can remember, the drink of choice when eating out has been wine (with optional jug of tap water). Pairing food with wine is seen as the natural option – even the bargain boozer knows the ‘white with fish, red with meat’ rule. But slowly, things are changing. The idea of […]
The 302
For one week only we’re going to set up a temporary redirect (known as a 302 redirect in internet parlance) of thebeercast.com/feed to our new feedburner podcast-only feed. This means that those of you who are subscribed to the /feed address for the posts will be a bit put out for a week – sorry, but once we’ve decanted all our podcats listeners to the new feed address i’ll remove the redirect and your RSS readers will start to fill up again with learned, more insightful, better written and more interesting posts than this one.
BrewDog Avery Brown Dredge
Reviewing a beer brewed by other beer writers is a new one for us here on the BeerCast – and something of a minefield too. Not that we’re putting ourselves in the category of the three chaps responsible for BrewDog’s Avery Brown Dredge (7.5%) – the multi award-winning trio have the pageviews and Wikio rankings […]
