Barney's Beer

Microbrewery in Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿
Associated Venue: Royal Dick (Barney's)

Established in 2010

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1 Summerhall Place, Edinburgh, EH9 1PL, Scotland
Description
Barney’s started brewing at Summerhall in July 2012 in time to supply the venue’s Royal Dick Bar for the Fringe, but Barney himself began brewing aged 16 as a brewery apprentice. After bagging a first class degree in Brewing and Distilling at Heriot Watt University and packing in a high flying career promoting rum and whisky around the world, Barney decided it was high time he started to brew his own beer.

In doing so, his immaculate microbrewery has injected new life into Edinburgh’s brewing history, not least because he’s chosen to resurrect a brewery at Summerhall where beer has been brewed off and on for three centuries.

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7.8
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

cask at blue blazer ... dark copper brown ... thin tan head ... soft fruity toffee malt nose ... nice soft rounded toffee malt ... light sweet malt roast ... really quite nice 3.8 cask in blue blazer ... dark brown ... thin off white oam head ... soft sweet toffee roast ... mild soft sweet roast malts ... soft smoth essy 3.7

Tried from Cask on 18 May 2011 at 08:10


6.8
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7

cask at cloisters ... thin white lacing ... light grassy lemon hop nose ... oily sweet peachy lemon ... light bitter ... ok

Tried from Cask on 16 May 2011 at 04:17


4.9
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5

Bottle. Red colour with a pink head. Aroma is dust, fruit, earth. Flavour is dust, beets, malt, grain. Strange beer.

Tried from Bottle on 11 May 2011 at 07:19


5.4
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 4.5

33cl bottle. Pours a cherry (or should that be beetroot) colour. There is a small amount of head. On the nose, it is beetrooty, earthy (like soil, literally) and perhaps a little fruity (maybe redcurrants). The taste is seriously full of topsoil, to the extent that the beetroot flavour is completely in the background and there is zero fruit. There is a hoppy dryness on the end, presumably from the hops. The palate is ok - it starts fairly chunky but cleans at the end. Overall, interesting nose but that’s where it peaks!

Tried from Bottle on 18 Apr 2011 at 11:25


4.9
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 4.5

33cl bottle. Pours a cloudy orange/amber. Nuts, sweet malt and honey on the nose. The taste is completely different - the sweet malt comes and goes quite quickly and the second half is almost entirely the soapy hops with some bitter grain in there too. The palate is ok - fairly rich and at least it cleans ok. Overall, nice for a change but I wouldn’t seek it out.

Tried from Bottle on 18 Apr 2011 at 11:05


5.8
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6

Bottle 330ml.[ Trade by cgarvieuk ]. Clear medium amber orange color with a average, frothy, good lacing, mostly lasting, off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, toasted, caramel, dusty, moderate hoppy, orange - citrus, tobacco notes. Flavor is moderate sweet and light moderate bitter with a average to long duration, old malt, earthy. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft. [20110408]

Tried from Bottle on 15 Apr 2011 at 06:37


6.2
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6

Had this at Jan & Charlottes, Ulfborg, Denmark, 08.04.11 Pours amber with a white head, Jan get’s an earthiness Charlotte gets tobbacco, I get violets, There is some barley sugar, actually quite an assertive beer, malty with some hoppiness. A6 A4 T6 P3 Ov12 3.1

Tried on 12 Apr 2011 at 13:04


5
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5

Bottle 330ml.[ Trade by cgarvieuk ]. Clear medium to dark red color with a average, frothy, good lacing, mostly lasting, pink head. Aroma is moderate malty, caramel malt, berries, leather - shoe polish, beetroot ! Flavor is moderate to light heavy sweet and light bitter with a average to long duration, beetroot ! Body is medium to light, texture is watery to oily, carbonation is soft. [20110318]

Tried from Bottle on 25 Mar 2011 at 08:12


5.1
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 4.5

Bottle, courtesy of fonefan. A kriek lookalike. Candy red and almost clear, topped by a pink, dense, head. Pale malts, fruityness and an earthy touch to the aroma. Quite bitter in the mouth, with pale malts and a nice hoppyness. Medium body. I can’t say the beetroot is bad for the beer, but it’s not my choice of beer, that’s for sure. 110318

Tried from Bottle on 18 Mar 2011 at 13:07


4.8
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5

Bottle @ Norway/Denmark Tasting @ Ulfborg. Courtesy of Fonefan. Pours blood red with a pinkish head. Nose is grain, grain and sweet red berries. Flavor is corn and rødbeder. Medium to thin body.

Tried from Bottle on 18 Mar 2011 at 12:58