The Book "The Tartan Pint" Has Arrived !!!

After working on this project for almost a year it is now ready and available for down load from Amazon. "The Tartan Pint" is an E book and is all about the great breweries and fantastic beers that Scotland has to offer. It gives you information about the breweries, including web addresses, facebook, telephone numbers and a brief description of the history or the people behind them. There is a list of almost all the beers they produce along with pump clip images and tasting notes, where available. The book is split into the 14 geographical area's of Scotland from Shetland to Dumfries and Galloway with a brief description of the area and a list of the breweries located in that area. there are also a few other chapters about beer history, beer tasting and beer styles, i.e. the definition of lager, bitter, porters, etc....

This is a great book and will give you an overview, (blaggers guide), to beer in Scotland. It also touches on the fact that craft brewing is growing all over the world and that beers tastes and styles are changing and developing. Check it out, tell your friends about it and get your copy !


I Hope that everyone had a great Christmas and New Year. I usually work at New Year, the last couple of years I've worked as a camera man on the Waverly Stage at Edinburgh's Hogmany party, but this year I had a break and spent some time with family and friends. We celebrated the new year at my house with barbecued steaks and brought in the bells with a glass of single malt. It was just great to catch up and be together on such a happy occasion, as you can see below. I took the picture, and yes, the bottle of Kelpie is mine. From Left to right is: Christine, (my wife), James Grant, Gillian Grant, Carolyn Young and Kenny Young..   

After the festive period I, like so many of you, went back to work. I've been travelling up and down the country on road shows and at events. Its amazing how time fly's as its now nearing the end of January and were one month into the year already !

A couple of nights ago we celebrated Burns night at home with some friends. As well as the haggis we had a few other treats to share. We bought a small keg of "Copper Cascade" from the Stewart Brewery, this is a beautiful full bodied red ale - so good it didn't last long.  

As you can see from the pictures above we also had a bottle of elderberry wine from the Cairn O' Mohr winery. This went down very well with dessert and especially well with the cheese board. It's very different to most main stream wine as its a fruit wine, quite sweet and has a very strong flavour of berries, I like it, but can't drink much of it due to the sweetness. My brother, Steven, brought one of his favourite whiskies, Old Pultney, and shared it with us. This is a beautiful flavored malt with a salty aftertaste. Although It took us a while before we could persuade him to let go of the bottle !  

Please head on over to Amazon and download your copy of The Tartan Pint". If you have any questions or queries about the book then please contact me.

See Ya next time !!!