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Look at the shiny. Go on, look at it.  I think I may just about be recovering from a two-week long hangover. That's the only reason I can think of why I haven't written this blog before now. On Tuesday 13th May, my compadre Bill Bradshaw and I were named winners of the Drink Book of the Year at the Fortnum & Mason Food and Drink Award ...

Pretty much every brewer I’ve ever met has that innate resourcefulness that you seemingly need in order to make good beer, professionally. The big macro producers are no-less talented, of course; even with their larger kits and increased automation, getting something exactly right time after time with limited room for variation is equally ...

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There is a small elephant in the room, though – the investment the project received from the C&C Group; a company that has long held the lion’s share of drinking chips in Glasgow. But from what I gather, the suits from up the road (and it really is just up the road; the Drygate brewery ... The post Drygate Brewery opens appeared ...

Night-time. A rain-slicked alley, somewhere in the backstreets of London. A group of young hipsters scurry from one forty-tap bar to another. Their smartphones glow with latent heat, fingertips still raw from the check-ins, instagramming and tweeting. A conversation erupts, over a moment of controversy in the last bar. “Yeah, I told the g ...

Welcome to the latest Edinburgh Beer Weekly! Every Sunday we’ll be posting a preview of all the beery happenings in the city for the next seven days – so you won’t miss a thing. You can sign up to our subscription service, ensuring you’ll get a notification every Sunday when the Edinburgh Beer Weekly is ... The post Edin ...

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, ... The post Chasing the burn: Hauf and Hauf tasting, part one app ...

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I didn't want to write this post, but I have to. It comes on the back of me breaking my own cardinal rule about not behaving like a dick at the bar. In a version of that classic "Do you know who I am?" thing that spoilt celebs do, there are often times when I'm tempted to counter claims of "There's nothing wrong with that pint" or "Well, ...