Monthly Archives: August 2016
Spirits garden in bloom again
Edinburgh Gin expands Festival programme
EDINBURGH Gin is taking centre stage in the capital again over the coming weeks with an expanded programme of events...
Aberdeen open for business
Hotel trade group claims efforts to broaden appeal are working
By Dave Hunter
A CONCERTED effort to market Aberdeenshire to tourists is starting to pay off...
Small-batch gins show strength
Perthshire producer develops range
PERTHSHIRE’S Strathearn Distillery has produced what it claims is the strongest gin range in the UK at 60.5% ABV.
The small-batch spirits...
Caution urged on consultation
Respondents have until mid-September to participate in review
By Dave Hunter
PERTH and Kinross licensing board has been urged to consider the effects on local communities...
Brewer makes a Krafty move
BUSINESS is said to be booming for a craft brewery which relocated to Linlithgow earlier this year.
Krafty Brew moved from Edinburgh to the Star...
The plaice to purchase?
A LICENSED café, restaurant and fish and chip shop business in the Dumfriesshire town of Thornhill has come on the market through property firm...
Producers weigh in on how to host the perfect festival
FROM local rural pubs to city centre outlets, beer festivals are becoming an increasingly popular sight, popping up across the Scottish on-trade. For publicans...
Scots brewer goes for gold
THE Rio Olympics, which officially kicks off on August 5th, provided the inspiration for the latest limited edition beer from Edinburgh’s Caledonian Brewery.
Road to...
Pubs code will ‘add to support’
Voluntary agreement is a ‘landmark for Scottish tied pubs’, writes SBPA chief executive Brigid Simmonds
A NEW voluntary code of practice for tied tenants in...
Family rules are a step backwards
The 2005 Act meant to encourage child-friendly venues. It didn’t
“COMPLEX, uncertain, and at times almost unintelligible” – that was the Nicholson Committee’s unflattering view...