Scotland recommendations wanted

Going to Scotland for a week in June. Plan on driving to the more remote areas of the Highlands from Glasgow and am looking for beer, pub (freehouse?), and B&B recommendations. I'll sample the whisky for certain, but I'm a dark beer fan by and large.

-- Cheers!

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Duke
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The Submarine Captain

I'm not intimately familiar with the ales of Scotland (I'm more acquainted with their distilled brethren!) but for the last two years in a row, a Scottish beer has been selected the Champion Beer of Britain. That's never happened before.

Here's a site that might help you out:

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Cheers,

Bill

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Bill Riel

The Scottish Highlands are not good beer drinking country, and pubs selling cask conditioned beer of any sort are very thin on the ground. A copy of the CAMRA Good Beer Guide may be your friend here, and will make a good souvenir of your trip. There's lots of good beer available in Glasgow - again, the GBG is a good starting point. It's widely available in UK bookstores, but make sure you buy the right book - there are lots of lookalike pub guide books around.

HTH, Paul

-- Paul Sherwin Consulting

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Paul Sherwin

My favourite place when visiting Scotland was Moulin Hotel & Brewery (near Pitlochry - between Edinburgh and Inverness)

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Great beers, good food, and fantastic environments.

Cheers / Per

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Per Samuelsson

Well, a guy I know and used to work with here in Philadelphia, Jim Anderson, is now running an inn in Inverness called "The Anderson." He is very well-versed in cask ale (ran a cask ale event here in Philly for years and consulted on real ale to bars), has about 110 malts, and claims the biggest selection of Belgian beers in Scotland. They have a good restaurant (I can say that with some confidence because I've experienced his wife's restaurant expertise before) and have rooms to rent. The owners are the same guys who own the famous Monk's Cafe here in Philly. If you do stop in, please tell him I sent you, and give him my best.

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Lew Bryson

I had a blast in Edinborough, I highly recommend it if you can! There's a pub in the Grass Market (where condemned prisoners used to be hanged) Called The Last Drop. They allowed them a pint before dying, if you go in, they will pour a pint of Guinness, and instead of a clover in the foam, they draw a hangman. It's worth the price of the pint even if you don't like Guinness (which my wife doesn't like here in the States, but drank a bunch of in the UK.....)

Edinborough also is home to the Castle (just up the hill from the Grass Market) and it's easily my favorite thing I saw in all of the UK!

Or you could go to Kilsythe and f> Going to Scotland for a week in June. Plan on driving to the more remote

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Ron Lynne

Be sure and check out the CAMRA website also for local beer festivals ... last year I was in Edinburgh in June, and was lucky enough to be there when they were holding their "Scottish Traditional Beer Festival".

Otherwise I second the CAMRA Good Beer Guide suggestion, because the good beer pubs are fairly scares, compared to a lot of the other areas of the UK.

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John S. Watson

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