The first sip is the sweetest
One of the most commonly recurring themes of lager advertising is that the beer has to be instantly refreshing – providing relief from searing thirst within nanoseconds of hitting the tongue. Ciders, too, promote this continually within their commercials. In fact, pretty much any alcohol designed to be served long, cold and shotgunned is marketed ...
Our brewery of the year – Fyne Ales
By my reckoning, we have just reached the figure of 75 breweries in Scotland (I’m trying to get hold of the rumoured Bangour Brewery in West Lothian to run a feature – if they exist, they’ll be the 75th). That number includes 59 production facilities, 8 brewpubs and another 8 that contract elsewhere to make ...
Best new beers of 2012…the best of the rest
Last week, we turned the BeerCast over to the newcomers – the six best new British beers of 2012. Of course, with twelve months of full-on beer drinking under our (gradually expanding) belts, there were plenty more that could have made the list. As we move into the final blog-posting week before Christmas, it’s time ...
IBD Scottish homebrew winners revealed
There was a time, once, when home-brewing was all about providing easy access to cheap beer. Back when I was growing up, we used to head round to a friend’s house specifically because his father had a cellar full of grimy, sweating bottles of varying levels of lethality. It was making alcohol for alcohol’s sake ...
Scotland’s most underrated beers?
“OMG! This imperial Belgian-style gooseberry quad aged on balsamic-infused teak is the business!! It owned the 99 on RateBeer! And the check-ins on untappd! The guy that vlogs – you know, the one who’s wife’s pants are on the washing line in the background – he went so mental over this beer it came out ...
Scottish Real Ale Festival 2012 – the beers
The Scottish Real Ale Festival is well and truly open for business – once the doors were unlocked the first hundred people had entered the venue with only thirty-five minutes having elapsed. We covered the details of how the Corn Exchange is working out for the SRAF in yesterday’s post – so today, it’s on ...
