Whisky Stramash returns again

WHISKY Stramash is set to return to Edinburgh for its fourth year. The event promises to showcase a host of whiskies from across Scotland as...

Four eateries fight for top spot

FOUR Scottish restaurants are competing to be named the top eatery north of the border by readers of the Waitrose Good Food Guide. The...

Best of the best wanted

GLASGOW’S 11th annual Best Bar None Awards is now open for entries. More than 100 premises were represented at the launch event in the city’s...

Trail leads pub brand to Glasgow

A SLUG and Lettuce-branded bar has opened in the former Living Room on Glasgow’s St Vincent Street. The venue launched last week after parent firm...

NIP festival has ‘record sales’

A SCOTTISH craft drinks festival has recorded a five-year ticket sales record, organisers have claimed. The NIP festival, formerly the Inverness Whisky Festival, is said...

Licensees in golf comp

LICENSEES from across Scotland descended on Crieff Golf Club earlier this month to battle it out in the annual Haddow Trophy Competition. The Aberdeen team...

Brewer searches for beer pioneers

BREWER Molson Coors has teamed up with SLTN to find new and original ways to promote beer in Scotland’s on-trade. A new initiative from...

Innis & Gunn eyes £3m brewery

EDINBURGH beer firm Innis & Gunn has announced its ambition to create a new, state-of-the-art brewery, bottling line and barrel store in the south...

Another Alcohol Bill is step too far

By Gillian McKenzie THE introduction of a new Alcohol Bill has drawn fire from operators and licensing lawyers, who say the volume and fragmented nature...

New beer is the berries

THE Loch Ness Brewery has joined forces with research centre the James Hutton Institute and a Fife berry farmer to create a blackberry beer. Berry...

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ONLY DRAMS
Andrew Dowson
Neil Morrison
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