Going to Scotland for a week in June. Plan on driving to the more remote
areas of the Highlands from Glasgow and am looking for beer, pub
(freehouse?), and B&B recommendations. I'll sample the whisky for certain,
but I'm a dark beer fan by and large.

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Cheers!

Duke a écrit :

Going to Scotland for a week in June. Plan on driving to the more remote
areas of the Highlands from Glasgow and am looking for beer, pub
(freehouse?), and B&B recommendations. I'll sample the whisky for certain,
but I'm a dark beer fan by and large.


Drop a line on uk.food+drink.real-ale, there's plenty of people over
there that could help you...

--
Warning : you may encounter French language beyond this point.

Justement j'aimerais assez que tu allasses quérir nos brebis qui doivent séans se retrouver fort humides...
(F'murrr)

Laurent Mousson, Berne, Switzerland

In article , "Duke"
wrote:

Going to Scotland for a week in June. Plan on driving to the more remote
areas of the Highlands from Glasgow and am looking for beer, pub
(freehouse?), and B&B recommendations. I'll sample the whisky for certain,
but I'm a dark beer fan by and large.

I'm not intimately familiar with the ales of Scotland (I'm more
acquainted with their distilled brethren!) but for the last two years in
a row, a Scottish beer has been selected the Champion Beer of Britain.
That's never happened before.

Here's a site that might help you out: http://www.scottishbeers.com

Cheers,

Bill

On Wed, 25 Feb 2004 07:03:56 -0600, "Duke" wrote:

Going to Scotland for a week in June. Plan on driving to the more remote
areas of the Highlands from Glasgow and am looking for beer, pub
(freehouse?), and B&B recommendations. I'll sample the whisky for certain,
but I'm a dark beer fan by and large.

The Scottish Highlands are not good beer drinking country, and pubs
selling cask conditioned beer of any sort are very thin on the ground.
A copy of the CAMRA Good Beer Guide may be your friend here, and will
make a good souvenir of your trip. There's lots of good beer available
in Glasgow - again, the GBG is a good starting point. It's widely
available in UK bookstores, but make sure you buy the right book -
there are lots of lookalike pub guide books around.

HTH, Paul
--
Paul Sherwin Consulting http://paulsherwin.co.uk

In article , "Duke"
wrote:

Going to Scotland for a week in June. Plan on driving to the more
remote
areas of the Highlands from Glasgow and am looking for beer, pub
(freehouse?), and B&B recommendations. I'll sample the whisky for
certain,
but I'm a dark beer fan by and large.

Well, a guy I know and used to work with here in Philadelphia, Jim Anderson,
is now running an inn in Inverness called "The Anderson." He is very
well-versed in cask ale (ran a cask ale event here in Philly for years and
consulted on real ale to bars), has about 110 malts, and claims the biggest
selection of Belgian beers in Scotland. They have a good restaurant (I can
say that with some confidence because I've experienced his wife's restaurant
expertise before) and have rooms to rent. The owners are the same guys who
own the famous Monk's Cafe here in Philly. If you do stop in, please tell
him I sent you, and give him my best.

--
Lew Bryson

www.LewBryson.com
Author of "New York Breweries" and "Pennsylvania Breweries," 2nd ed., both
available at www.amazon.com
The Hotmail address on this post is for newsgroups only: I don't check it,
or respond to it. Spam away.

I had a blast in Edinborough, I highly recommend it if you can! There's a pub
in the Grass Market (where condemned prisoners used to be hanged) Called The
Last Drop. They allowed them a pint before dying, if you go in, they will pour
a pint of Guinness, and instead of a clover in the foam, they draw a hangman.
It's worth the price of the pint even if you don't like Guinness (which my wife
doesn't like here in the States, but drank a bunch of in the UK.....)

Edinborough also is home to the Castle (just up the hill from the Grass Market)
and it's easily my favorite thing I saw in all of the UK!

Or you could go to Kilsythe and find my old family home if you prefer......
Slainte Mhath
Ron
(Clan Gordon)

Duke wrote:

Going to Scotland for a week in June. Plan on driving to the more remote
areas of the Highlands from Glasgow and am looking for beer, pub
(freehouse?), and B&B recommendations. I'll sample the whisky for certain,
but I'm a dark beer fan by and large.

--
Cheers!

Be sure and check out the CAMRA website also for local beer festivals ...
last year I was in Edinburgh in June, and was lucky enough
to be there when they were holding their "Scottish Traditional Beer Festival".

Otherwise I second the CAMRA Good Beer Guide suggestion,
because the good beer pubs are fairly scares,
compared to a lot of the other areas of the UK.

Slainte,
John

(Paul Sherwin) wrote in message ...
On Wed, 25 Feb 2004 07:03:56 -0600, "Duke" wrote:

Going to Scotland for a week in June. Plan on driving to the more remote
areas of the Highlands from Glasgow and am looking for beer, pub
(freehouse?), and B&B recommendations. I'll sample the whisky for certain,
but I'm a dark beer fan by and large.

The Scottish Highlands are not good beer drinking country, and pubs
selling cask conditioned beer of any sort are very thin on the ground.
A copy of the CAMRA Good Beer Guide may be your friend here, and will
make a good souvenir of your trip. There's lots of good beer available
in Glasgow - again, the GBG is a good starting point. It's widely
available in UK bookstores, but make sure you buy the right book -
there are lots of lookalike pub guide books around.

HTH, Paul

Kelly Riles wrote:

Here's a list of most of the currently operating breweries in
Scotland:

Caledonian Brewing Co. Ltd (Edinburgh) being taken over by S&N 17 Feb.
2004

Not being taken over as such, but the brewing plant itself is being sold
to S&N. This is course is not much better, and means the brewery will
probably be closed eventually, probably when S&N give up brewing ale in
Scotland entirely and have Export brewed in Manchester for the by then
seven remaining McEwan's drinkers.


Innis & Gunn (Edinburgh)
Not a brewery; the beer is contract-brewed at Caledonian.


Maclay (Brewed by Belhaven?)
Last I heard Forth were brewing the Maclays brands, but I might be
wrong.


Tennent Caledonian (Glasgow)
Ugh. Brews nothing worth drinking. Keep away.
(Having said that, if I were forced to choose between Tennent's Lager
and the vile Stella Artois that Interbrew prefer to push now, I'd take
the Tennent's any day)

On Sat, 13 Mar 2004 14:37:26 +0000, in
, Tim Vanhoof wrote:

Kelly Riles wrote:

Here's a list of most of the currently operating breweries in
Scotland:

Caledonian Brewing Co. Ltd (Edinburgh) being taken over by S&N 17 Feb.
2004

Not being taken over as such, but the brewing plant itself is being sold
to S&N. This is course is not much better, and means the brewery will
probably be closed eventually, probably when S&N give up brewing ale in
Scotland entirely and have Export brewed in Manchester for the by then
seven remaining McEwan's drinkers.

What worried me most was the announcement on their website which, when
listing everyone who'll benefit from the sale, listed shareholders first.
While the shareholders matter and it is ultimately their brewery, it
didn't seem to me to be good PR to do that.

Maclay (Brewed by Belhaven?)
Last I heard Forth were brewing the Maclays brands, but I might be
wrong.

You are a couple of years out of date. It used to be brewed at Forth which
was set up by former Maclay employees but is now brewed at Belhaven.

Tennent Caledonian (Glasgow)
Ugh. Brews nothing worth drinking. Keep away. (Having said that, if I
were forced to choose between Tennent's Lager and the vile Stella Artois
that Interbrew prefer to push now, I'd take the Tennent's any day)

A bit ironic that both Tennent's Lager and Stella Artois are contract
bottled at Belhaven nowadays.

--
Andy Davison