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Ageing beer in oak casks is coming back into fashion as brewers discover the added aromas and flavours wood can give their beers. Alastair Simms is seen at the White Rose Cooperage in Yorkshire with a fine collection of oak casks. Classic lager brewers lined oaks casks with pitch to avoid woody flavours infecting the beer

Added: Thursday, September 10th 2020

Edinburgh-based Innis & Gunn aims to heal the referendum divisions in Scotland with a new oak-aged beer, Rare Oak Pale Ale, that uses oak hewn from forests in the Scottish Borders. Sweet Gale is added to hops to give a spicy and refreshing flavour

Added: Tuesday, September 23rd 2014

Innis & Gunn, the Edinburgh-based innovators of wood-aged beer, have gone on a Grand Tour of the country's five whisky-producing regions. They have aged an amber ale style known as "a Wee Heavy" in oak barrels garnered from major distillers.

Added: Tuesday, May 13th 2014

Harviestoun Brewery in Scotland has made a major contribution to the appreciation of wood-aged beer with Ola Dubh, matured in casks from the acclaimed Highland Park malt whisky distillery on Orkney. Harviestoun brewer Stuart Cail is pictured

Added: Saturday, January 4th 2014

In the first of a new series, the remarkable success story of Innis & Gunn with its beer aged in bourbon barrels that's now a world-wide phenomenon. Dougal Sharp (pictured) has added several new styles, including beer aged in rum and Irish whiskey casks, and is now adding draught beers to his portfolio

Added: Wednesday, November 13th 2013