Ale
WHERE TO FIND GOOD ALE IN CALLANDER'S BEST PUBS
WAVERLEY HOTEL, 88-92 MAIN STREET
A great pub for real ale, and popular with visitors who partake of some good food. It can feel a little busy when everyone's chomping, but there's a quiet comfy lounge where you may hide from everyone else.
A great pub for real ale, and popular with visitors who partake of some good food. It can feel a little busy when everyone's chomping, but there's a quiet comfy lounge where you may hide from everyone else.
LADE INN, KILMAHOG
Kilmahog is about one mile to the west of Callander. You can walk on a footpath at the side of the road, or take the walk/cycleway on the old railway line. Going by the road means you'll come to the Trossachs Woollen Mill where Hamish is kept. If you've been impatient or nurtured any feelings of disrespect for any of the pensioner hoards in Callander (and if you don't have a strawberry or two to placate him) he will eat you, and your progress to the Lade Inn will be made somewhat difficult, if not impossible. If you've planned ahead and left Callander with a punnet of strawberries, then you may be permitted to pass and continue your journey to the inn. The Lade Inn is very very comfortable. They've got real ale, nice soft seats, and a real fire. It's seriously relaxing being here in the summer, but in the cold frosty nights of winter it becomes a magical place as the warm ruddy glow from the fire reflects off the happy faces of drouthy drinkers. [Check out their website at www.theladeinn.com]
Kilmahog is about one mile to the west of Callander. You can walk on a footpath at the side of the road, or take the walk/cycleway on the old railway line. Going by the road means you'll come to the Trossachs Woollen Mill where Hamish is kept. If you've been impatient or nurtured any feelings of disrespect for any of the pensioner hoards in Callander (and if you don't have a strawberry or two to placate him) he will eat you, and your progress to the Lade Inn will be made somewhat difficult, if not impossible. If you've planned ahead and left Callander with a punnet of strawberries, then you may be permitted to pass and continue your journey to the inn. The Lade Inn is very very comfortable. They've got real ale, nice soft seats, and a real fire. It's seriously relaxing being here in the summer, but in the cold frosty nights of winter it becomes a magical place as the warm ruddy glow from the fire reflects off the happy faces of drouthy drinkers. [Check out their website at www.theladeinn.com]
THE SCOTTISH REAL ALE SHOP
This is actually attached to the Lade Inn, but I'm giving it a separate entry because it deserves it. It is absolute heaven to wander into this small shop and be faced by shelf upon shelf of bottled Scottish ales. They've got practically every bottled Scottish ale currently brewed, and all under the one roof. Even the Inveralmond Brewery's 'Blackfriar'. Scottish cider, too - 'Thistly Cross', as made in Dunbar from Scottish apples. It's the sort of place where I find it very hard not to fall to my knees, throw my arms wildly in the air, and cry 'Hallelujah' for all the world to hear. However, a word of caution: there are so many superb bottled ales here that a very big rucksack might be in order. Failing that, I suppose you could ask them to deliver the ale to your door. Might I recommend at least six of every single different bottle and the hiring of a fleet of vans. [Check out the shop's goodies in The Lade Inn's website at www.theladeinn.com]
This is actually attached to the Lade Inn, but I'm giving it a separate entry because it deserves it. It is absolute heaven to wander into this small shop and be faced by shelf upon shelf of bottled Scottish ales. They've got practically every bottled Scottish ale currently brewed, and all under the one roof. Even the Inveralmond Brewery's 'Blackfriar'. Scottish cider, too - 'Thistly Cross', as made in Dunbar from Scottish apples. It's the sort of place where I find it very hard not to fall to my knees, throw my arms wildly in the air, and cry 'Hallelujah' for all the world to hear. However, a word of caution: there are so many superb bottled ales here that a very big rucksack might be in order. Failing that, I suppose you could ask them to deliver the ale to your door. Might I recommend at least six of every single different bottle and the hiring of a fleet of vans. [Check out the shop's goodies in The Lade Inn's website at www.theladeinn.com]
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