Posts Tagged: Scotland and Scots Styles
Great Grannie's Favorite Pub Was A Boat
Posted by on Thursday, September 20, 2012 in - 3 comments
Great-grannie passed away in 1946. Tales have been told about her ways. If you click on the thumbnail you will see the house above the car where she lived on the second floor, stepping out on the second floor ledge to wash the windows in her 80s without tying on. Sending her grandson down to the …
BrewDog May Have Me Liking Them Again... For Now
Posted by on Friday, July 27, 2012 in - 3 comments
What better way to reach out and come to a meeting of minds with fellow travelers than to share in a deep wholesome distaste for the Olympics: • A Scottish brewery has created ‘anti-Olympics’ beer that contains eight ‘banned’ performance-enhancing ingredients. The ‘Never Mind the Anabolics …
Not Beer: Ginger Beer, Crabbie's, Glasgow, Scotland
Posted by on Sunday, July 1, 2012 in - 1 comment
I say this is not beer but I am not sure. The label says both "Original Alcoholic Ginger Beer" and "Flavoured Alcoholic Beverage". Which is not quite saying beer, right? My Scots mother, the minister's wife who bartended as a girl, said something to the effect that with a little more power behind …
Do We Need To Keep The Cooks Away From Beer?
Posted by on Sunday, March 11, 2012 in - 14 comments
One of the main reasons I don't like the idea of matching and pairing is that everything pretty goes with pretty much everything else in the right combination. Failing that general principle can lead to some tortured twists of logic and language: • Sriram Aylur, whose London restaurant Quilon … read more »
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 …
