Rise of the Radler
History, as they say, repeats itself. Beer trends too; they come and go. Maybe that explains why marketing types for the macro lager-pushers seemingly have such short memories. The recent flurry of releases from the lords of light beer, in their watery crystal towers, suddenly all relate to one particular category – citrus-infused lagers. Molson […]
Edinburgh Beer Weekly 01/07 – 07/07
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The worst beer name in Scotland?
By and large, Scottish brewing remains reasonably free of teeth-grating beer names, documented so brilliantly by Pump Clip Parade. That’s possibly because of the plethora of small-scale, cask-only breweries in England, quietly releasing horrors such as this, or this. Scottish brewing, by comparison, is on a smaller scale (in terms of numbers) and tends to […]
New Edinburgh brewery – Pilot
‘Good people drink good beer’ says the sign, hanging from the whitewashed wall of Unit 22, a low, anonymous building on the Jane Street Industrial Estate. “That was the first thing that went up,” says Patrick Jones, leaning on a five-foot length of white piping, either taken from or about to be added to his […]
Edinburgh Beer Weekly 24/06 – 30/06
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Beer festivals: where will they be held next?
Last week, it was announced that the Urban Sessions festival intends to host a beer, food and music gathering in an old, refurbished, swimming baths in Hackney, East London. With the already-established IndyMan festival in Manchester’s Victoria Baths set to come round again in October, Urban Sessions has become the second new independent beer event […]
