Beer of the Week – Harviestoun The Ridge

Beer of the Week – Harviestoun The Ridge

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Apr 28, 2017
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Friday means two things – firstly that the weekend is just around the corner, and secondly it’s time for another beery recommendation from the growing list of the most unsung beers in Scotland. On the cusp of every weekend this year I’ll be putting forth a suggestions of a beer that might well have flown […]

Beer of the Week – Harviestoun Old Engine Oil Engineer’s Reserve

Beer of the Week – Harviestoun Old Engine Oil Engineer’s Reserve

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Mar 10, 2017
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As the week draws to a close it does so with the now-traditional send-off – the BeerCast Beer of the Week. This time around sees the 10th entry in the list of the most unsung Scottish beers you can get your hands on, both traditional classics and modern wonders that deserve a place in your […]

Chasing the burn: Hauf and Hauf tasting, part one

Chasing the burn: Hauf and Hauf tasting, part one

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May 15, 2014
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As a proud drinking nation, Scotland has many a liquid tradition, and one of the most enduring of these is undoubtedly the half and half – or, to give it the proper title, the hauf an’ a hauf. A beer and a whisky, drunk in tandem. A half and a nip. A wee chaser. Now, […]

Nicholsons Christmas Beer – Sleigh Driver
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Nicholsons Christmas Beer – Sleigh Driver

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Dec 5, 2013
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Christmas. One inevitable facet of the year-end festivities is that they bring people together. Families. Elbow-jousting shoppers. Baileys-fuelled office party-goers. Whether you like it or not, groups get together at Christmas, and (more likely as not) turn to drink. Quite obviously, the best place to be when this human urge to congregate occurs is in […]

Harviestoun keep the plates spinning

Harviestoun keep the plates spinning

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Feb 13, 2013
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Breweries – the good ones, that is – are seemingly never satisfied with how things are. Whether updating the core range, making room for new hops, or re-badging an existing line – nothing is sacred. Often, of course, these things are dictated by other powers – such as issues with supply, distribution or hop performance. […]

Cail’s lore

Cail’s lore

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Feb 6, 2013
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This blog post was initially going to be very different – a pictorial of the Harviestoun Brewery, taken during a recent Guild of Beer Writers’ tour of their facility in Alva. Instead, in a complete switch of the usual ‘picture is worth a thousand words’ mantra, it’s going to be simply a series of quotes. […]

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