West End Beer Festival makes a return
Image from 2018 festival Before the pandemic, Glasgow’s West End Beer Festival had been making a bit of an impact. Now that the days of pasta rationing, sea shanties and watching too much YouTube seem very far away, the festival is returning tomorrow and Saturday to its original home at Hillhead Sports Club in leafy Hyndland. Original organiser Conor McGeady is a much busier man these days than he was back then, so Up Front Brewing boss Jake Griffin has stepped in to take on some of the weight of organising the festival. Up Front beers will be at the festival, of course, as they have been at every one since the beginning. Quite probably the notorious Das Ist Techno Sex will be there, as it was back before lockdown, which in these days of constant novelty, sorry, innovation, shows reassuring stability. This is a beer which I shouldn’t like in principle: it is a Gose, but kettle-soured, and fruited (passion fruit and key lime, if you must know), with a silly name. But it is rather nice a
