Windie Goat Brewery closed
Some sad news for Scottish brewing reached us this week, with the announcement of the closure of the Windie Goat Brewery. They had been attached to the Failford Inn in South Ayrshire, located in the tiny village of the same name about ten miles east of Prestwick. Like so many fledgling breweries that became successful, […]
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 […]
Gutter Slab – for the Hopheads
Last month when we visited the Scottish Beer Festival at the Assembly Rooms in our home city we found a great deal of things we liked, both new and old. One of the newer discoveries was a pale bitter called Peden’s Cove from the Windie Goat Brewery in Failford, Ayrshire. Tucked away in the far […]
Scottish Beer Festival 2008
In our recent preview of the 2008 Scottish Real Ale Festival I wrote that we were all looking forward to trying some new things, as it’s really the main reason for going along. Last year’s festival (the review of which is here) was something of an eye-opener to the BeerCast – we’d only just started […]
