Beer Week planning meeting
We’re having an informal get-together to discuss and plan what’s going to be happening at this year’s Beer Week. The meeting will be next Wednesday 11th July at WEST on Glasgow Green. We’d love to see...
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Brewing today
We just got word that the official Glasgow Beer Week beer will be brewed today. This will be tapped at our launch party on Friday 7th September. WEST are brewing it and as they brew German styles, it...
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Programme out on Friday!
We will be releasing the draft events programme for this year’s Beer Week online on Friday morning. It’s going to be OK. If you want to be mentioned in this first edition, get your events in by...
View ArticleProgramme is out!
We have finally released our events programme! You can read the press release here and view the calendar here. This is just the initial programme and we will be firming up details and adding additional...
View ArticleTweaks to our website
Last year when our website was first built, we imagined that we would have two basic kinds of events during Beer Week: those which extend over the whole week and those which take place on one day. It’s...
View ArticleBeer Week starts tomorrow!
Beer Week is almost here and things are almost ready! The Beer Week beer is brewed and we’ll be tapping that on Friday at WEST. I’ve tasted the beer pre-filtration and it’s going to be nice. The beer...
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Beer Week got off to a great start yesterday with a conference run by the Scottish Brewing Archive Association, followed by the launch of the GBW beer at WEST: Also making a splash were the opening of...
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Beer Weeks spread
It looks like the Beer Week format is growing in popularity with the launch of Bristol Beer Week in, er, Bristol. The folks down in the West Country have been working hard to bring this about and it’s...
View ArticleBeer Hunter: the movie
“My name really is Michael Jackson; but I don’t sing, and I don’t drink Pepsi. I drink beer. That’s what I do for a living. I travel the world, sampling different brews and writing about the ones that...
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Semana de la cerveza
For those who read Spanish, El Pais has a nice article about Beer Week: http://elviajero.elpais.com/elviajero/2013/10/28/actualidad/1382960737_654606.html Thanks to Fernando León-Solís for writing...
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Beer Week is here …
… and we’ll be chilling out with some beers in Blackfriars basement this evening: Kelburn Pivo Estivo and the brand new Cromarty Ghost Town porter. At 5.8%, does this have the chops to be a Zombier...
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November is most definitely a month for eating out. We are delighted that two of the newest and hottest eateries in Glasgow are taking part in Beer Week this year. Burger Meats Bun has been receiving...
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Our beer mats
Unlike some bigger festivals, Glasgow Beer Week has never had a printed programme. In fact, the only printed material we have had are our beer mats. I mean, you can’t have a beer week without beer...
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Beer and Cheese
Last year (as far as we know) Beer Week pioneered beer and cheese matching in Glasgow with a tasting of six beers and six cheeses. This year British Cheese Awards judge Phoebe “Roving Fromagiere”...
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