What is your Brewery name and where did it come from? Williams Bros Brewing Co. named after the Brothers who started it (My dad & uncle, Bruce & Scott Williams) It was previously Heather Ale Ltd but it grew beyond our historic ales and a new brand was born to include our contempoary brews too. [...]
View Post bottled beer, cask beer, real ale, scottish ale, scottish beerThis Week’s Meet the Brewer comes from Rob Hill courtesy of @Highlandbrewlew on twitter! They make some fab ales and are great craic on twitter so please try their beers if you see them. What is your Brewery name? We have an identity crisis: the company is the Highland Brewing Company Ltd; the brewery is [...]
View Post bottled beer, cask beer, Meet The Brewer, orkney, scottish ale, scottish beerWhen Brewdog first arrived on the scene I remember ordering their beers online and being blow away by how different they were, their branding was spot on and the beers tasted fab, Even the early tasting case I bought that had prototype bottles of what were to become Chaos Theory and Zeitgeist showed just how [...]
View Post Beer Festival, BrewDog, scottish ale, WetherspoonsToday saw the exciting announcement that Chaos Theory has been re-released by Brewdog after much nagging by the online community and beery types around the world Brewdog have brought back what is probably my favourite beer that they have ever made…well until I tried the recent collaboration with Mikkeller – I Hardcore You, which I [...]
View Post Beer, bottled beer, BrewDog, IPA, scottish aleI write this as I am sat here with a rather large bulbous glass that has a rather small amount of what is currently the world’s strongest “beer”, Sink The Bismarck, from Brewdog. My brother bought the bottle a few weeks ago and it arrived a couple of days ago, he offered to bring some [...]
View Post 41%, BrewDog, IPA, scottish ale, Strong beer, world's strongest beerThis week’s meet the brewer comes from way north of the border, Wil Wood from Fyne Ales took time out from brewing 5 times a week to complete our little questionnaire. Fyne Ales make some fine ales (see what I did there??) I’m quite partial to their Avalanche. So over to Wil to fill you [...]
View Post Fyne Ales, real ale, scottish aleIt’s that time of week again where we harras a brewer to fill in our questionnaire for Meet The Brewer, This week the email headed way up across the border to Scotland and to the Harvistoun Brewery, where it was filled in by non other than Head Brewer Stuart Cail. Harviestoun are one of my [...]
View Post harviestoun, Meet The Brewer, real ale, scottish aleScapa Special was part of the selection of beers I got from Highland Brewing Company, It wasn’t a beer I had heard much about but when I started to look into it it was a beer that interested me quite a lot, mainly because of the mix of hops used in brewing it but the [...]
View Post Highland brewing, orkney ale, real ale, scottish aleThis week’s Meet The Brewer, comes from north of the border where James Watt from BrewDog has kindly taken time out from his world domination plans and fishing to complete our little feature. Like many of the things BrewDog do this is likely to divide opinion so if you have any thoughts please leave them [...]
View Post BrewDog, IPA, james watt, Meet The Brewer, scottish ale, Strong beerWilliams Brothers are one of the few breweries that do Twitter well, they interact, they answer questions and the listen to feedback, A while back I got chatting to them and they sent me some of the test batch of their Ginger Beer, when It arrived I was most surprised (and pleased) that they had [...]
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