Posted in Scotland, beer, brewing, craft beer, pubs, travel on June 11, 2008 | No Comments »
I have touched upon the question about the number of breweries established in Denmark over the last few years, wondering if they all are sustainable. There are similar worries in Scotland, where they now have 42 breweries producing cask ale, up from a dozen ten years ago.
The closure of the Isle of Arran brewery recently [...]
Posted in Scotland, beer, beer blogs, beer marketing, brewing, craft beer on April 23, 2008 | 7 Comments »
Some brewers, often anonymous, grumble about the beer rating sites like ratebeer and Beer Advocate, nicknaming them hatebeer. They feel that they are put down by a small number of geeks who make hasty judgements and don’t appreciate the high quality some of the craft brewers are offering.
Some take the other approach - they embrace [...]
Posted in Denmark, Norway, Scotland, USA, beer, brewing, craft beer on April 21, 2008 | No Comments »
Out of a million beers - well, 2800 - in the World Beer Cup, the Nøgne ø Dark Horizon First Edition won a gold medal in the Other strong ale or lager category. Their Porter won a silver in the Robust Portercategory.
Lot of American ales that I only know by reputation, but there are some fine [...]
Posted in Scotland, beer, beer blogs on April 11, 2008 | 1 Comment »
No, it’s not the blogging fatigue whimper, just that I have a fairly busy period on all fronts. When I was uploading photos from brief, but interesting in a beery way, visits to three countries in five days, my photo storage provider photobucket told me I had reached the limit of 1000 photos. It is [...]
Posted in Italy, Scotland, beer, craft beer, food, smoking, travel on March 3, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Some of the beer places I write about involve complicated treks by bus, train or taxi or long walks in strange neighbourhood. I am happy to tell you that this won’t be necessary in Bologna, as the beer shop La Tane del Luppolo is located just ten minute’s walk away from the main sights of the city, [...]
Posted in Denmark, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Norway, Scotland, Spain, Sweden, UK, health, pubs, travel, tagged cafe, smoke free, smoking on January 3, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Those who want a beer without having to dry clean their clothes and wash their hair the next day have an increasing list of countries to choose from in Europe. Both France and Portugal have banned smoking in bars and cafes from January first.
The list now includes Belgium, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, [...]
Posted in Norway, Scotland, UK, beer, food on January 3, 2008 | No Comments »
I was looking for something else when I stumbled across a reference to a concept in Glasgow that has been successful enough to be exported to London: A Pint, a Pie and a Play. (There is even a more elaborate version called Dinner, Drama and a Dram!)
I suspect there are places in Glasgow where you get [...]
Posted in Scotland, UK, beer, brewing, tagged BrewDog on December 26, 2007 | 2 Comments »
I am not usually handing out any awards, but I would like to point to BrewDog from the windswept Eastern coast of Scotland as the most exciting newcomer in 2007. Daring and inventive, these young lads have lot to live up to in the years to come. Expect to see them in various markets in [...]
Posted in Denmark, Ireland, Scotland, beer, travel on November 27, 2007 | 4 Comments »
maeib has set up a list on his blog of how he would stock a beer fridge with 15 beers of 15 different styles from 15 countries. This is a tricky one, not the least because I feel that the ratebeer categories will be a bit hair-splitting to some. And I would have a Trappist category. I don’t [...]
Posted in Denmark, Norway, Scotland, UK, beer, brewing on November 19, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Seems like Carlsberg are using their Norwegian company to do the dirty work in their raid on Scottish & Newcastle. Maybe they think the Northeasterly part of of the island is more easily scared by Norwegian berserkers than by Danes?
From The Times:
It has emerged that lawyers for Pripps Ringnes, a Carlsberg subsidiary, sent letters at [...]
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