Beer of the Week – Fallen Brewing Platform C
Another Friday and another beer recommendation from north of the border. With so many breweries in Scotland these days (over 150 at least) there is just so much to tempt your hard-earned cash with. So the best advice I can give is go at it in bite-sized chunks. That’s why at the end of every […]
Beer of the Week – Fallen Chew Chew
As the week draws to a close it is time to focus attention once more on another unsung hero of Scottish brewing. This weekly series exists to look at those beers – new and old – that deserve to be on your drinking radar, so that you can hopefully seek them out and discover another […]
Breweries to Watch 2013 – five months on…
At the beginning of January, just as the year started, I posted a list of British breweries to watch out for in 2013. Despite the ongoing financial pressures, the scene here is flourishing – more breweries are opening now than ever (in living memory, at least). Having said that, it’s still a tough industry in […]
Breweries to watch out for in 2013…
Last year, right at the beginning of January, we posted a list of breweries to watch out for in 2012. Looking back, our overall pick to take that next step (Tempest Brewing Co) really had a spectacular twelve months, and many of our other choices also produced some fantastic beer. Despite the pressures of the […]
New beers from Fallen Brewing Co
Three months ago, we interviewed Paul Fallen – the man behind Fallen Brewing Company – as his new start-up operation was about to receive their first contracted run of beer. Produced at the Traditional Scottish Ales facility in Throsk, the debut release was a 5% peat-smoked porter (Blackhouse) – an unusual launch style in a […]
New Scottish brewery – Fallen Brewing Co
2012 is shaping up to be the year that contract brewing exploded in Scotland – we can barely keep up with the new producers appearing here at the moment. There are many reasons why contracting is becoming so popular, but one of the more important – according to the man behind one of those cuckoo […]