Beer of the Week – Loch Lomond Southern Summit
It’s another weekend and – slightly later than usual – here’s the latest in my series of the fifty-two unsung beers in Scottish brewing. Every Friday (and one Sunday) throughout 2017 I’ll be taking a closer look at a single beer I believe deserves to get a lot more love – and at the very […]
Linger
Here are five of the best Scottish beers I can think of for Linger – with these, the rewards just keep on coming. Tempest Unforgiven (5.4%) A juniper rye ale with smoked oak, on cask this one goes on and on. Smoked and rauchbiers are (in)famous for their long, deep aftertastes, the addition of juniper […]
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 […]
Heriot-Watt Beer Festival 2012
That pen is not mine, incidentally Having never been to the Heriot-Watt Beer Festival before, I was told the sun always arrives for a scheduled appearance (making it the exact opposite of the Highland Show). Sure enough, the weather was glorious in Edinburgh yesterday, just in time for the 27th HWFest. They take their beer […]
