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Despite alcohol consumption and binge drinking continuing to fall, we're still being warned that we drink too much. Coverage of the latest research reveals that we're talking at cross-purposes. When I wrote my second book, Three Sheets to the Wind, I made a big deal about binge drinking in the UK compared to other countries. Despite having l ...

Everything happens in threes, as they say – and a mere handful of days since Innis & Gunn took the plunge and opened their first bar, on Lothian Road in Edinburgh, two other prominent Scottish breweries have announced plans to do something similar; almost literally around the corner from each other. Beer drinkers of Inverness ... The ...

Well, all those emails and calls certainly paid off. A tweet, linked to Instagram, plops into the timeline in the middle of the afternoon, with a mere six words of fanfare. In a single moment, that announcement carries the suggestion of a beer that many people have been wondering about for a long time. Fyne ... The post Double Up appeared first ...

What’s the best time of day to go the the pub? The time that you fancy a beer, obviously. But the thing about these living-rooms-at-length are that they cater for all kinds of situations. And that’s as true for the cliched ‘life events’ that we celebrate there (wedding receptions, final exams, the conclusion of a ... The ...

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This year is already shaping up to be a big one for Innis & Gunn. Having launched their Beer Bond back in May with a view to raising £3m to fund the construction of a new brewery – a figure they were very close to, as of a month ago – they have also now ... The post Innis & Gunn Beer Kitchen opens appeared first on The ...

I last did it during a national anthem. Every beer drinker will have had a similar end result at one time or another – whether they were standing to attention during ‘Flower of Scotland’ or in their local pub, or at a beer festival. Letting it slip. Putting beer on the deck. Dropping your pint. ... The post Hit the Deck appear ...

Every summer, the amount of beery events happening everywhere seems to multiply. Over the next few weeks, I'm taking two new event formats out for a spin. Firstly, there's a talk to support my new part-crowdfunded book, What Are You Drinking? If you missed it, this is a new venture with award-winning publishers Unbound, where you can crowdfu ...

The Scottish Real Ale Festival is almost upon us once again, with doors opening at noon on Thursday (the 9th) at the Corn Exchange out in Slateford. The all-important beer list is finalised; if everyone comes through with the casks, this time there will be a quite astonighing 60 different breweries present at the Corn ... The post Scottish Real ...

Edinburgh is a city built on its traditions of brewing, and yet new institutions are added to the roster all the time. For example, one of the newer of these additions is celebrating its fifth anniversary this very week. It was that long ago that the collaboration project between the Institute of Brewing and Distilling ... The post Natural Sele ...