On Sunday 06 January 2002 13:48, you wrote: > On Sun, 2002-01-06 at 12:30, willie wrote: > > On Sunday 06 January 2002 03:17, you wrote: > > > Its that time of year again when the blood in the alcohol starts to > > > increase after xmas and new year, and I thought it might be a good > > > idea to try to counter act this effect by organising a brewery trip. > > > From what I can remember this has been done in the past and was > > > successful. > > > > > > anybody interested? > > > > Sounds good, what are our choices? > > In Glasgow we have Tennants at Wellpark and the Clockwork at Mount > > Florida. Last time I went out to that place in Lugton, it was shut. > > Otherwise we are looking at a trip to the mysterious east, where they > > tend to make better beer. > > > > I have to say, its been a long time since I went into a bar and > > voluntarily drank Tennants lager. > > True. > > Edinburgh has a couple of brewers but i can't remember what brands. Well theres all the ex S&N breweries (now Scottish Courage (says it all, we get our courage from pish sold to us by effing English )) also there is Caledonian at Slateford (home of Deuchars and other fine stuff). We could go to Belhaven at Dunbar or down to Broughton. Dunno if there are any brewers in Alloa that do tours All of this implies the hire of one or more minibuses. No way am I volunteering to do the driving on this trip
> > If we go to edinburgh perhaps we could make this a joint venture between > slug, edlug, and flug? Makes sense > > A beer festival would be good, my local's just finished a belgian beer > promo which was v. nice. Any coming up soon? Kev tends to know these things. I have an inkling there may be a beer festival in Paisley at the end of the month but I wouldnt put money on it and Im too lazy to google right now. > > D > > > Possibly a trip to a local beer festival instead? > > > > Willie > > > > > D > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > http://www.lug.org.uk http://www.linuxportal.co.uk > > > http://www.linuxjob.co.uk http://www.linuxshop.co.uk > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > > http://www.lug.org.uk http://www.linuxportal.co.uk > > http://www.linuxjob.co.uk http://www.linuxshop.co.uk > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > http://www.lug.org.uk http://www.linuxportal.co.uk > http://www.linuxjob.co.uk http://www.linuxshop.co.uk > -------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.lug.org.uk http://www.linuxportal.co.uk http://www.linuxjob.co.uk http://www.linuxshop.co.uk --------------------------------------------------------------------
