Edinburgh Beer Weekly 06/08 – 12/08
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 […]
Going Pale on #IPADay
Yesterday was the second #IPADay, the annual hashtag-heavy celebration of the world’s favourite beer style. Or, more accurately, America’s favourite craft beer style. Beginning as the brainchild of a couple of Stateside beer bloggers, the event uses the power of social media to convince people that India Pale Ale is the way to go. Of […]
New Edinburgh Pub – The Fountain Bar
“Not a boozer for the faint hearted! Watch your back and I am not exaggerating!” “Still dangerous and if you’re not in the crack you’re gonna get cracked!” “If you’re in with your mates or a girl you b ok if you don’t stare!” Many years ago, the Fountain on the corner of Murdoch Terrace […]
Mamma Mia Pizza beer?
A beer like this is very much one that you have to try. Not in the same way as you have to try Westvleteren 12, however – there’s no bucket list of wacky beer out there – rather, you hear about Clam and Tomato beer, or Garlic beer, and think – “You know, that can’t […]
Edinburgh Beer Weekly 30/07 – 05/08
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 […]
Old Engine Oil – home and away
Everyone knows that things are generally bigger in America. Food portions, cars, members of the public. For various reasons, beer is also stereotypically bolder and stronger over there – as us cultured Britons simper through our cask-conditioned 5% ‘strong bitters’, our Stateside cousins regularly power through monstrous double IPA’s and Imperial maple stouts infused with […]






