Scottish Real Ale Festival 2013 – the beers
As the craziness of the city-wide Independents’ Festival continues, and (for me, at least) the debauchery of the Beer Bloggers’ Conference is yet to start, in between, nestling like the older, wiser chick in the nest, we have CAMRA’s Scottish Real Ale Festival. Truly, at the moment there is as much beer in Edinburgh as […]
Best new beers of 2012…Elixir Benedictine Groove
For the penultimate offering in our list of best new British beers of 2012, we head back two months to October. A small-scale operation, contracting out to another brewery, launched their first beer – and it got everybody in Edinburgh talking… Benedictine Groove (5.5%) Elixir Brewing Company, Edinburgh (cask, released October) 2012 was very much […]
New Scottish Brewery – Elixir Brewing Co
I had an idea about how it should taste, and this is pretty close As we’ve discussed many times before – and with increasing regularity these days – the major downside of jumping into the contract-brewing game is that you really aren’t sure how that keenly-awaited first batch will turn out. With a home-brewing background […]
