Beer of the Week – Cairngorm Black Gold
Friday means that the weekend is just around the corner, and with it the chance to kick back with a beer or three (unless you have already been doing that all week). Every seven days at this time I will be detailing a particular Scottish beer and letting you know exactly why it should be […]
Beer of the Week – Loch Ness Light Ness
Another Friday, and another chance to stock your beer fridge with one of the unsung heroes of Scottish brewing. Each and every week this year I’ll be leading into the weekend with a beer that deserves to be on your radar if you aren’t already familiar with it – and for the fifteenth in the […]
Two more Scottish breweries to open bars
Everything happens in threes, as they say – and a mere handful of days since Innis & Gunn took the plunge and opened their first bar, on Lothian Road in Edinburgh, two other prominent Scottish breweries have announced plans to do something similar; almost literally around the corner from each other. Beer drinkers of Inverness […]
Saint Guinness Day
Happy Saint Guinness Day! Today, around the world, hundreds of thousands of dark pints will be churned out, knocked back and knocked over – all in the name of a long-passed, snake-managing missionary. It’s the biggest day of commercialisation in the beer world, bar none. Over the years, Dublin’s most famed export has become so […]
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 […]
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 […]
