Posts Tagged: Scotland and Scots Styles
Day 23+4: Ten Prizes Awarded And Four Innis + Gunn
Posted by on Thursday, December 15, 2011 in - 12 comments
Prizes. Better start picking some prizes. But there are samples building up, too. Better opens some samples. Good thing I have tomorrow off. • First the beer. I have reviewed at least three Innis + Gunn beers and I have a sense what to expect: rounded, juicy, well balanced and tasty malt without …
Book Review: Great British Pubs, Adrian Tierney-Jones
Posted by on Thursday, November 10, 2011 in - 5 comments
I have to say that this book is a bit of a shock. I never knew you could mix so much porn with this degree of authoritative statement. How does one react? I have learned things I will share... yet I have wallowed in the depths of my deepest private imagination. AJT is good. He's like a pusher … read more »
People At The Beer Festival Will Stick To The Familiar
Posted by on Friday, July 22, 2011 in - 8 comments
I am happy that this week's CAMRA and BrewDog discussion has given the opportunity for we who are not familiar with the workings of the organization some insights. This morning there have been a load of Twitter activity (oxymoron alert!!) about the Great British Beer Festival including more than a …
Scotland: Canada Day 2011, Innis & Gunn, Edinburgh
Posted by on Monday, June 27, 2011 in - 8 comments
The good folks at the Ontario's importers of Innis & Gunn's beers forwarded this sample a few weeks back and, as Canada Day is this coming Friday, I thought I better give it a go before the big day. And as I let one of their beers sit too long and another got taken out by a freezing delivery van I …
Session 49: Sweet! Season 5 Starts With Regular Beer
Posted by on Thursday, March 3, 2011 in - 7 comments
Stan blames me - and why not? I have plenty to answer for. Generally. In life. And in beer. You know. I know. But do I care? No. Well, not much. In this case, it's OK as it's the beginning of the fifth year of these sessions and I am happy to take the blame. Stan is the host this month and he …
Book Review: Edinburgh Pub Walks by Bob Steel
Posted by on Sunday, January 30, 2011 in - 1 comment
I get cranky. Especially when I have had a cold since Thursday and couldn't get out on the snowshoes this weekend as planned. Heck, I really could not maintain much of a level of consciousness given the fever here, the aches there and the surreal effect of cold medication. Not prime time for the …
Jack Frost Takes On Innis + Gunn Blonde And Wins
Posted by on Monday, January 24, 2011 in - 1 comment
Not my finest artwork but that is an image of Jack Frost as a Union General saving the day by clearing out malaria as an avenging weapon in the great cause. No such luck in the present case. See, UPS delivered two parcels today both marked for me, each including two bottles of Scotland's Innis …
Beer News: "It's Not My Country But..." Edition
Posted by on Tuesday, January 4, 2011 in - 5 comments
I am a lazy beer blogger. An intensely lazy one. I have not yet sent out the four prize packages that I am duty bound to mail to winners in Ontario, Norway, Costa Rica and the Czech Republic. Sure there were Christmas parties needing attending and holiday travel and also a cold that won't go away …
Twenty Years Ago, A Christmas Eve In Scotland
Posted by on Friday, December 24, 2010 in - 4 comments
One of my favorite Christmas Eves was twenty years ago tonight, in Gullane, East Lothian, Scotland. I was visiting my uncle, auntie and cousins and had settled into a week long stay. It didn't take long for it to seem like to everyone in the village I was that "coosin frae Gan-ee-der." People …
Scotland: Paradox Islay #004, BrewDog, Aberdeenshire
Posted by on Saturday, September 25, 2010 in - 2 comments
What a mess. I hadn't realized the label was made of hard card stock stuck on with two-sided sticky tape. I might take it down to the lab and get James' near teen DNA off of it. Bottle 131 of 200. By opening it, I probably just threw away the 100 bucks I could get from some guy in Kansas on eBay …
