Beers from the Orkney Brewery are this week being showcased at a major international food and drink event in Japan. FOODEX is the largest event of its kind in Asia, attracting almost 3,000 exhibitors from 82 countries and regions, along with over 75,000 food and drink buyers. The show, held in the Makuhari Messe convention […]
Hollywood actor, Alan Cumming, has tipped his hat at this year’s Homecoming Scotland 2014, taking time while visiting Scotland recently to snap a “selfie” of himself tasting the official beer for the celebrations brewed by The Inveralmond Brewery in Perth. The impromptu image was snapped at the luxurious Fonab Castle, who serve a range of […]
Orkney Brewery’s Dark Island ale has won a top award from major supermarket chain Sainsbury’s. The 4.6 per cent ale was given a Best Product Launch prize at Sainsbury’s Scotland and Ireland Regional Supplier Conference 2014, held in Glasgow’s Hampden Park Stadium. Orkney Brewery began supplying its full range of beers to Sainsbury’s in July […]
DENWEL, the carbonation specialists, have completed the factory acceptance test on a 50 hl (33bbl) per hour automatic inline carbonation system for Williams Bros in Alloa. Due to Williams Bros’ contract packaging business, they required a fully automatic state of the art carbonation unit. The system chosen is controlled by a Siemens S7 PLC and […]
Lerwick Brewery, Shetland’s newest craft brewery, has signed a strategic deal with Cairngorm Brewery in Aviemore, which will allow the Lerwick Brewery team to drastically increase production of its flagship products 60° North and Skipper’s Ticket. John Mercer, Marketing Manager and Co-Founder, Lerwick Brewery, says: “So far, the only drawback of our beers’ popularity has been […]
Inveralmond Brewery, an independent brewer of craft beers based in Perth, has signed a deal with Russian distribution company Elizabet to export four of their most popular beers to Russia. The deal will see Lia Fail, Ossian, Thrappledouser and Blackfriars take a five day journey by land and sea to quench the thirst for international […]
Miss Scotland, Jamey Bowers, raises a glass to mark the first delivery of Homecoming Scotland 2014 beer to the country’s capital, wetting the head of what will be a year-long celebration of hundreds of events with a commemorative craft beer that has been lovingly brewed in Scotland by Inveralmond Brewery. Inveralmond Brewery, based in Perth, […]
Legendary Scottish rugby union commentator Bill McLaren will long be remembered for his outstanding contribution to the sport through his many years behind the microphone. Now rugby fans can raise a glass of Bill’s beer in celebration of the 90th anniversary of ‘the voice of rugby’, brewed a stones-throw from Bill’s old Murrayfield Stadium commentary […]
SIBA Scotland Region Beer Competition 2013 DATE OF JUDGING & ANNOUNCEMENT 8th November 2013 Overall Champion of the Competition Sponsored by Muntons Plc Brewery Product ABV Gold Highland Brewing Co. Island Hopping 3.9 Silver Fyne Ales Vital Spark 4.4 Bronze Kelburn Brewery Dark Moor 4.5 For the full list of winners, please visit: http://www.siba.co.uk/events/regional-competitions/scotland/2013-2
The Caledonian Brewing Company today confirms that Stephen Crawley, Managing Director, has announced that he will leave the business at the end of December 2013 after 20 successful years with the Edinburgh company, one of the UK’s premier cask breweries. Stephen joined Caledonian in 1993 and became MD in 2001. A recruitment process is now […]