Chewing over where to drink this weekend? Step this way…
While it may be damp in places, this weekend’s weather looks set to be – technical term coming up – scorchio.
Which means people will be thirsty for delicious drinks.
If you are scratching your head over where to drink this weekend, may we suggest the following:
Eaglesham Beer Festival
Eaglesham’s first and only beer festival is back for a third year.
Taking place from noon to 7pm on Saturday 27th May, there will be beer from WEST, Drygate, Up Front Brewing, Sulwath Brewery, Kelburn, Harviestoun and many more.
Bijou Wine will be dispensing the wine and Prosecco while Thistly Cross will dishing up their superb, refreshing cider. Eden Mills will take care of your G ‘n’ T requirements.
There will be a marquee as well as an outdoor stage hosting Glasgow’s very own Shiverin’ Sheiks and the enigmatic Mr Wilson’s Second Liners from Leeds.
The festival takes place on the Eaglesham playing fields, with entry at the corner of Gilmour St and Cheapside St.
Entry is £3. Group tickets for 4 people are £10.
Where to drink in Edinburgh
Moving across the M8, the inaugural Edinburgh Craft Beer Festival takes place this weekend.
We wrote about it more extensively here.
We understand that both of Saturday’s sessions are sold out but there are still tickets for Friday evening and Sunday afternoon.
If whisky is more your bag, then the Whisky Stramash takes place in Edinburgh’s Surgeon’s Hall on Saturday and Sunday.
Saturday afternoon tickets are sold out but some remain for Saturday evening and Sunday afternoon.
Slainte mhath!
Eat and Drink Festival
Scooting back to Glasgow, the inaugural Eat and Drink Festival, part of The Ideal Home Show Scotland, takes place this weekend at the SEC.
As well as top artisan producers, it features leading street food vendors plus master classes from top chefs as well as the drink industry’s most celebrated mixologists.
Appearances confirmed include Gregg Wallace and Olly Smith.
We have a Big Deal offering two tickets for £16. The tickets give entry to the Eat and Drink Festival and The Ideal Home Show. Children under the age of fifteen go free when accompanied by an adult.
The Isle of Ale spotted at Lidl
If you prefer to make your own arrangements, you may be interested to learn that Lidl has announced the launch of its first Scottish craft beer festival.
Starting today, some twenty craft beers from thirteen Scottish micro-breweries will be available across all of its 94 stores in Scotland.
The 5pm Dining blog loves a pun so we feel that they may have missed a trick by calling the promo ‘The Isle of Ale’.
Surely, it should have been The Aisle of Ale?
The line-up includes Disco Forklift Truck from Drygate in Glasgow; St Andrews Mocha Porter from St Andrews Brewery in Fife; Tempest Pale Armadillo from the Tempest Brew Co in Galashiels; Fierce Ginga Ninja from Fierce Beer in Aberdeen; Barneys Volcano IPA from Barney’s Beer in Edinburgh and Orkney Gold from the Orkney Brewery.