Stockbridge Tap beer festival preview
Edinburgh certainly lives up to its reputation as the festival city – only last weekend the annual fireworks display signalled the end of the various month-long fringe and EIF events. Whilst for many, August means excitement, late nights and countless shows, for the beerhound, it really means four weeks of busier pubs, clogged streets and […]
The Hawkshead Brewery Beer Hall
Few situations encourage spells of idle thought like long-distance car journeys. On the recent lengthy road trip to Cumbria, for example, several things crossed my mind on the three hour drive home. How do other service stations compete with the sheer awesomeness of Tebay? Would BeerCast Paul’s stag do have been improved by him wearing […]
Edinburgh Beer Weekly 03/09 – 09/09
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 […]
Keep our pubs vinegar free!
Here, reproduced exactly as we found it, is a paragraph from the front page of a Cumbrian pub menu:- The reason vinegar is not allowed in the bar area is open to great debate! We have had chemists both professional and amateur provide us with formulae both for and against. Having vinegar in your mouth […]
Scotland’s most overrated beers?
Last week, we brought you the five most underrated beers in Scotland – a post which generated a fair bit of debate, and resulted in several different breweries being mentioned (Kelburn, Fyne Ales and Williams Brothers all featuring highly). After posting, my mind turned to the other side of that equation – opinions should be […]
Gone fishin’
Only pack the essentials Well, camping. We’re heading off to the sunny delights of the Lake District for a few days, so no posts and no Edinburgh Beer Weekly this Sunday. Instead, we’ll be sitting in a rainy field drinking the highest-quality canned beer we can find. Oh, and hopefully visiting a couple of breweries, […]
