The 10th Loch Ness Beer Festival is nearly ready to start. Over 60 ales have arrived (well most of them have!) along with some lovely looking ciders from GWatkin – brand new to the Highlands we believe. Day 1 will see the official debut of the River Leven Brewery – a new brewplant installed in [...]

Sad news this week amidst the excitement of the Brewery test brews and the build up to the 10th Loch Ness Beer Festival. Archie, our faithful collie who had been with us throughout our time here at the Benleva died on September 11th. He’d been ill for a while and passed away quietly at home [...]

Confirmed breweries update :- Isle of Skye, Cairngorm, An Teallach, Inveralmond, Highland Brewing, Fyne Ales, Stewart Brewing, Ayr Brewing, Traditional Scottish Ales, Orkney, Tempest, Deeside, Burnside and Loch Ness Brewery from Scotland. With hopefully a special new brew from Colonsay too. From England-shire :- Thornbridge (Jaipur back to defend its crown), Blue Monkey, Salamander and [...]

The nominated charity for the 10th Loch Ness Beer Festival is Breast Cancer Care Scotland. This is very important to us and hopefully it can help to show our wonderful wee sister just how special and important she is to us. In order to maximise funds for this excellent charity we shall be doing a [...]

Goodness me doesn’t time fly! It’s been a while since the last blog post but much has been happening. The 10th Loch Ness Beer Festival – can it really be the 10th one already??!! – will run from the 16th – 24th September 2011. Beer ordering is well underway and we should have some marvellous [...]

Mild in May is a campaign launched by CAMRA to celebrate Mild, a long established but endangered style of ale. As part of this we aim to have a Mild on the bar every day in May. We’re starting off with Ilkley Black from Yorkshire and hope to follow it up with a mild from [...]

Yes It’s back! Friday 11th March 2011 @ 9 pm. With a massive Cash Jackpot of at least £250 to be won!!! Someone had better win it soon or it’ll be going to Vegas……

Well, it’s been a while since this was updated – sorry for that, and Happy New Year to everyone. What a year it’s going to be for us! The Loch Ness Brewery has been progressing slowly over the winter. Still no beer yet but the Website has just been launched. Let us know what you [...]

Exciting news today. We are proud to be the first place anywhere to sell the proper cask version of Colonsay IPA. Up until now it’s only been available in keg or bottle form but, judging by the small tasting this morning, will be very popular in cask form too. We’ve also taken a large delivery [...]

Long overdue report on the 9th Loch Ness Beer Festival. 59 Ales and 9 Ciders managed to make it on sale during this year’s Festival. The Thornbridge Brewery‘s ales did not disappoint and all, from the 3.5% Wild Swan to the 7.7% Halcyon, were excellent. As usual, all the local brews were superb and special [...]