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A fantastic pint! Simply brilliant – around Scotland, especially the East coast, this is a standby in practically every decent pub. Lovely bitterness, typical of the IPA style, and always dependable. Deuchars (please please please pronounce it as intended: Due-kers!) makes you proud to be from Edinburgh!
Amazingly, this pint was available in [...]

This was on as a guest ale at The Melville Inn, near Dobbies, and went down nice an easy.  It settled out before I drank it obviously, but it made for a much nicer picture!  The Melville Inn has a couple of pumps, but usually only one is in use when I’ve been in and [...]

My good friend Andy (see his website) and his good lady celebrated Hogmanay with Erin and I in our house and like a good chap he brought along some fine ale to lubricate proceedings.  However, as I had also planned ahead and got a couple of casks from Stewart Brewing, there was some left at [...]

Erin and I had the pleasure of visiting Colonsay, a small island of the west coast of Scotland, in August 2008.  The island is proud of it’s 100 inhabitants, one hotel, a general store and a brewery.  The island has a wonderful rustic beauty, as can be seen via my photos page, but it is [...]

As part of the aforementioned Hogmanay celebrations, I had bought a mini cask of Pentland IPA direct from the Stewart Brewery in Loanhead and Andy and I made a decent effort at getting to the bottom of it on the night.  However, we failed – which meant I got an extra cheeky pint early in [...]