Here comes the sun…
The arrival of tailbacks on the roads and wasps in the parks can mean only one thing – Spring is here. After enduring months of snow, sleet, winds and haar (something we say every year, only this time it actually happened) the weather is taking a turn for the better. Here in Scotland that means […]
Stewart Brewing Hollyrood wins again…
On Friday there was further good news for Loanhead’s Stewart Brewing, as their 5% pale ale Hollyrood was named Champion bottled beer of Scotland. It will now go on to the national SIBA finals in February to take on the other regional champs from around the UK. MrB and myself were in attendance for the […]
Williams 80/-
Scotland has given many things to the world relating to drink – single malt whisky, Shetland gin, Irn-Bru, Rabb C Nesbitt – but also the distinctive Scottish Ale, and the Shilling scale of classification. Growing our beer knowledge in Scotland, from young students knocking back subsidised £1.20 pints of McEwans 70/- in Uni bars, we’ve […]
Williams IPA
The second annual Sainsbury’s Beer Competition has just concluded, with the winners announced at the end of last week. After 115 different entries were received for this year’s judging, 100 of them were whittled away during the process leaving the final shortlisted fifteen vying for the two prizes. Bath Ales Golden Hare (4.4%) and Hambleton’s […]
BeerCast #37 – Gone Bananas
BeerCast #37 – Gone Bananas. We’re not sure if there’s ever been a banana-themed beer podcast on the internet before – but now there is. Our panel sample two banana beers and one that apparently has notes of the fruit in evidence. The other beer is totally random. Maybe that’s why there aren’t many podcasts themed around the bendy yellow fruit…on the panel today – Richard, Shovels, Andy and Jess.
1. White Horse Dragon Hill (4.1%)
2. Williams Bros Red (4.5%)
3. Wells Banana Bread Beer (5.2%)
4. Mongozo Banana (4.5%)
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Scottish Real Ale Festival 2009 – Day 1
Edinburgh is a city well known for festivals, and fortunately for us on the BeerCast they aren’t just restricted to the arts. The 2009 Scottish Real Ale Festival has rolled around again, held at the Assembly rooms on George Street. As promised in our recent preview we turned up with high expectations, given the impressive […]