Festival Beers & Ciders
With a focus on smaller Scottish breweries, every year we hand pick a selection of the most interesting and delicious ales, ciders and lagers across Scotland. Throughout the festival the club bars are open so you can also get soft drinks, sprits or a glass of wine.
Ales
MòR Beers
Alba ‘avin MòR Festival Ale / 4.0%
The specially brewed Festival ale is dry-hopped with Godiva British hops during active fermentation in a process known as Biotransformation. Godiva has supposedly spicy, gooseberry and tangerine flavours. It is then dry-hopped again after fermentation with a hop blend called South Pacific which enhances floral and marmalade characteristics. It's really drinkable and refreshing and MòRish!
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Alechemy Brewing
Charisma / 3.7%
A juicy extra pale session ale bursting with citrus and tropical fruit character.
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Loch Lomond Brewery
Silkie Stout / 5%
A robust oatmeal stout. Roast coffee aroma leads to a rich chocolate flavour that is rounded off with a smooth and creamy finish.
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Belhaven
1719 Pale Ale / 4.5%
Brewed to celebrate Belhaven’s 300th anniversary! 1719 pours three centuries of brewing expertise into creating a perfectly modern pale ale – a bright, clean beer with bags of citrus and tropical fruit character and a good bitter finish.
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Broughton Ales
Wee Jock / 4.6%
From the award winning Old Jock family, we proudly present his sessionable wee brother. Rich, malty chocolate notes and a lightly spiced finish
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Broughton Ales
Hopopatmus EPA / 3.8%
This insanely dry hopped pale ale will blow your palate away with its extreme fruity, hoppy flavour AND zesty punch. HOPopotamus is only for the boldest hop seekers.
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Stewart Brewing
Radical Road Reverse / 4.6%
Radical Road pours golden with long lasting white foam. The nose is bursting with American hops; tonnes of pine, grapefruit and citrus combine to make a tantalising hop cocktail. The taste is medium bodied with long lasting smooth bitterness and alcohol kick.
0rkney Brewery
Man O’ Hoy / 4.2%
Deep Golden Ale with summer scents of soft and dark fruit. Flavours of citrus and mango with a soft malted background, creamy, hoppy and delicate finish.
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MòR Beers
MòR Tea, Vicar? / 3.8%
A Scottish Best! - Malt forward, floral fruit driven hops and distinctive bitterness.
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Coul Brewing
80’s Revival / 4.7%
This ale is all about the malt, in fact it has 6 different types of malt. The unique blend of malts give it a biscuity, toffee, caramel and butterscotch flavour. Finished with a dash of hops to balance the sweetness with a touch of bitter.
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Coul Brewing
Full Spectrum / 4.1%
A dark, rich stout combining lots of rich roasted malts. Roasted barley and the chocolate malt give coffee and bitter chocolate flavours to this beer, while the crystal malts give a little sweetness in the background
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71 Brewing
Breakfast Toast / 4.5%
Created with seven different malts, lactose, Madagascan vanilla pods, and conditioned on Guatemalan cold brew from the Sacred Grounds coffee company. Dark and smooth with a cinnamon head, aromas of vanilla, chocolate, coffee, milk and a gorgeous long finish create a perfect mashup from the start and end of the day.
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71 Brewing
Cloud Fall / 4.5%
Brewed with a lush New World combo of Chinook, Citra, Motueka and Amarillo hops. Pale golden in colour with a creamy head, flavours of pine, grapefruit, citrus and tropical fruit, a soft mouthfeel and clean balanced bitterness to finish.
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MòR Beers
MòR iSH! / 4.2%
Caledonian IPA - Light fruity, floral aroma, layered with citrus, balanced against smooth bitterness from Fuggles and First Gold hops. Traditional and refreshing it’s a perfect pub IPA.
Cask Conditioned, as vegan-friendly real ale.
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Kelburn Brewing
Sunriser / 3.4%
A well balanced hoppy refreshing beer with a touch of rye and a blend of six hops leaving a long lasting biscuit and grapefruit finish.
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Hybrid Brewing
Sesh / 3.6
SIXTY SHILLING 60/- Light in ABV% but not in colour or flavour this is a real malt monster.
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Hybrid Brewing
Groat / 3.8
Made with Barley, Wheat and Oats in the malt bill and Hopped with Ekuanot and Amerillo. This is a well balanced session beer that should have wide appeal.
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Belhaven
St Andrews Ale / 4.6%
St Andrews Amber Ale is inspired by that other great Scottish invention, golf. Like the game, this beer is all about simplicity and balance. This thirst-quenching amber ale is a perfect balance of biscuity malt and fruity and spicy hops. Just the thing after a day on the course!
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Strathbraan Brewery
Eighty Bob / 4.4%
Modern 80/-, dark and malty with subtle background hops. A true Scottish session amber ale!
St Andrews Brewing Co.
Above and Beyond / 4.2
10p from each pint of Above and Beyond goes back the the RNLI (as part of an official partnership between St Andrews Brewing Company and the RNLI). A 4.2% Golden Ale - from Scotland Gold Coast.
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Wooha Brewing Co.
Strong IPA / 6.2
A real ale, hoppy and spicy with a balanced malt flavour - Bold!!
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Stewart Brewing
Jack Back / 3.7%
Pours a pale straw colour, strong citrus and tropical fruit aromas hit the senses with a touch of blueberry thrown in there too. The taste is light, crisp and refreshing with a smooth and hoppy finish.
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Fallen Brewing
Grapevine / 5.4%
Big tropical and citrus fruit flavours and aromas develop into a lasting bitterness that brings you back for more. Try it with Indian curries, spicy pizzas or chorizo. The taste is nicely hoppy with more tropical fruits, light spice and lingering bitterness. Pretty impressive!
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Fallen Brewery
Local Motive Session IPA / 3.9%
We’ve taken our session beer, brewed especially for the Cross Keys (Kippen), and turbo-charged it with Mosaic dry-hops. Easy-drinking but loads of flavour. Solid caramel malt on the tongue, this 3.9 session strength brew has bags of taste, there’s a little background yeast, but the finish is strong and fresh tasting. Really good
Loch Lomond Brewery
Southern Summit / 4.0%
This ale proved so popular that we decided to keep it as a regular. Light blonde but highly hopped with summit and citra hops.
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Williams Bros. Brewing Co.
Birds & Bees / 4.3%
Brewed for the summer evenings when we down tools for the day and repair to the beer garden; this bright, golden ale is a blend of pale malt, cascade and bobek hops with a late infusion of fresh elderflowers and lemon zest. Fruity, aromatic and deliciously refreshing.
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Strathbraan Brewery
Head East / 4.2%
Head East is one of the two ales first brewed by Mark Proctor for his new Strathbraan brewery. It is a traditional bitter. It is a copper colour in appearance, has a malty character and a pronounced floral aroma. A well-balanced beer.
Kelburn Brewery
Goldihops / 3.8%
A beer derived from years of practice searching for the perfect pint, of course hoping secretly that you never actually find it! In other words, a pint suited to the taste- buds of our head brewer that can be savoured several times in one session without feeling like the bottom has fallen out of your world (or vice-versa!). Golden, hoppy, clean on the palate and leaving a long lingering after-taste that will haunt you until you quest for more.
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Orkney Brewery
Corncrake / 4.1%
The newest addition to the Orkney range, a very drinkable spring beer. Straw-gold in colour with flavours of soft citrus fruits which combine beautifully with gentle floral notes.
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Harviestoun
Shiehallion / 4.8%
Pale straw/gold colour. Unique cask conditioned pilsner style lager. The use of finest lager malt and German hops results in a true Pilsner-style beer. Aroma hints at both hops and a slight flowery sweetness which is reflected in the taste. Good body for this type of beer, full flavour that leans towards the sweeter side but dryish finish.
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Fyne Ales
Jarl / 3.8%
Light and golden colour with a strong citrus and hop aroma. Citrus and grassy hop flavours dominate the palate with a light and refreshing dry finish. A superbly drinkable beer. Jarl is now our best selling beer and has won a number of prestigious awards, including being the current Champion Beer of Scotland.
Fyne Ales
Avalanche / 4.5%
This true golden ale starts with stunning citrus on the nose. Well-balanced with good body and fruit balancing a refreshing hoppy taste, it finishes with a long bittersweet aftertaste.
Silver Medal Winner – International Beer Challenge 2010
World’s Best Blonde Ale – World Beer Awards 2008
Williams Bros Brewing Co.
Seven Giraffes / 5.1%
This aromatic IPA pours a deep gold with citrus hops, followed by sweet caramel. On the tongue the biscuity malts are perfectly balanced with the bitterness of the hops, freshness of the lemon and lingering floral elderflower aftertaste.
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Lagers
Belhaven
Craft Pilsner / 4.8%
Soft biscuit malt from the lager malt. Refreshing bitterness from Challenger and Northdown hops. Delicate herbal, spicy and floral notes from the Northdown and a hint of soft fruits.
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WEST Beer
West4 / 4.0%
WEST4 is the latest addition to the WEST family, brewed according to the Reinheitsgebot (ancient German purity law). It is a session lager, brewed with aromatic hops only and is an easy drinking lager with malty finish that complements the citrus background.
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Black Isle Brewery
Organic Blonde / 4.5%
Is it a lager? Is it a pale ale? Does it even matter or does anyone care? Brewed with Hallertau hops for a grassy, Germanic aroma, this continental style beer carries a hint of honey sweetness which balances with the dry, crisp, refreshing palate and the biscuity finish. A genre defying classic.
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Ciders
Thistly Cross
Strawberry Cider / 4.0%
Strawberry infused cider is matured with masses of pressed Scottish strawberries to make a full bodied, fruit-driven, quenching drink. Rich in colour, the mouth is full of fruit with a clean refreshing finish.
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Thistly Cross
Traditional Cider / 4.4%
A satisfying session cider that has the same smooth flavour as the Original but with a lower ABV. A good full body with a refreshing sparkling mouthfeel. Fruity & aromatic, golden in the glass, with a clean apple finish. A perfect session cider.
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