Beer of the Week – Alechemy Five Sisters
As the week draws to a close it does so with the added boost of a beer or two. But if you were contemplating a single beer – one that sums up what Scottish brewing is about, what to choose? Well you came to the right place, as every Friday on the BeerCast I’ll be […]
Alechemy on the rise
Five years is a long time in brewing, and 2012 seems like an age ago. 86 breweries have opened in Scotland since, and the competition has increased dramatically as more people wake up to the idea of locally made beer (craft or otherwise). For those who have been in play for half a decade or […]
Saisons: have they become the style for craft beer tinkering?
How do brewers know what goes together, when coming up with recipes? This is a question I find myself asking increasingly often, usually after having scanned a pump clip or beer board, and been greeted with a ‘Peruvian kelp-infused green tea and mustard cress pale ale’. Many brewers have this innate ability to know what […]
New (bottled) Brew Friday
As ever, it’s fairly tough to keep up with all the news coming out of the Scottish beer scene at the moment. However, by anyone’s standards, today has seen the presses whirring at double quick time (or the modern equivalent. Servers, I suppose). In a strange, yet rather lovely, co-incidence, the brewers of Scotland seem […]
Breweries to watch out for in 2014
Last year, right at the beginning of January, I posted a list of breweries to watch out for in 2013. Looking back, the overall pick to take that next step (Cromarty Brewing Co) had a terrific year, and pretty much all of the other choices also produced fantastic beer. Despite the pressures of the recession […]
Best new beers of 2013…the best of the rest
Last week, as is traditional for the second week of December, the BeerCast was turned over to the newcomers – the six best new British beers of 2013. They were, in my eyes (in order of release):- Harbour Aji Limon IPA Magic Rock Salty Kiss Tempest Old Parochial Fyne Ales/Wild Beer Cool as a Cucumber […]
