Lagerboy Speaks – Thornbridge Italia
Lagerboy hasn’t had a runout for a while – he tends to spend the winter months hibernating to avoid the plethora of dark beers that appear once the days begin to lengthen. But seeing as the sun has started to peak out from behind the sleety Edinburgh clouds, he set out on a mission to […]
BrewDog Edinburgh opens
The latest addition to the growing BrewDog empire arrived quietly last night, with the laid-back opening of BrewDog Edinburgh. Following the original in Aberdeen, the second branded bar for the Fraserburgh operation opened with a very unBrewDog-like ‘soft’ launch – primarily to check everything worked before the official launch in a few days. The BeerCast […]
Go WEST?
WEST are Scotland’s only German-themed brewhouse, and have been based in the old Templeton carpet factory on Glasgow Green for exactly five years – their anniversary falling last Thursday. By a strange co-incidence it was on that very day I paid my first visit to the extravagantly-crennellated warehouse that sits a few minutes stroll from […]
Saison du Buff
Of all the beer styles out there (and there are plenty), one of the most complex has to be the Saison. Deriving from the Francophone word for ‘season’ these beers were drunk by thirsty Walloon farmhands during the summer harvest, having been brewed during the previous winter and stored over spring. Consequently they had to […]
The Session #49 – The problem of Deuchars
The Session takes place on the first Friday of every month across the beer writing world. One blogger suggests a theme and others post their thoughts or responses. For March 2011, the Session is hosted by Stan Hieronymous at Appellation Beer – and the theme is a ‘regular’ beer. This topic for the 49th Session […]
