Food and Drink
Tennent’s catches gas to keep lager fizzy
BREWING giant Tennent’s is to capture the carbon dioxide gas given off when it makes its beer and use it to keep its lager fizzy. Two giant 25-tonne tanks were lifted into place over the weekend to catch the gas at the company’s Wellpark brewery in Glasgow. A crane weighing 1,000 tonnes was needed to…
Read MoreFarmers help Scotty Brand pop its cherry
A FARMING family in Perthshire has helped Scotty Brand to add cherries to its range of soft fruit. Rowan and Jennifer Marshall have grown enough cherries at their West Jordanstone and Muirton farms to fill more than 25,000 punnets. The fruit is now going on sale at 56 Asda branches in Scotland, marking the first…
Read MoreAberdeen’s biggest zero-waste shop opens
GOING green just became easier in Aberdeen following the opening yesterday of the Granite City’s largest zero-waste store. Refillosophy on Albyn Grove sells coffee beans, loose tea, fresh fruit and vegetables and other items that customers can take home in their own containers, cutting down on the amount of plastic and other packaging. Items on sale…
Read MoreScots dream of parks, history and Outlander as tourism and hospitality reopen
GARDENS, views and television series Outlander are just some of the themes about which Scots have been dreaming during lockdown, according to the early results of tourism agency VisitScotland’s #HameTownTourist campaign. As many of Scotland’s restaurants, bars and tourist attractions begin to reopen today, the marketing bureau has shared some of the social media posts…
Read MorePlaudits for precision potato predictor
FARMERS could produce more salad and seed potatoes thanks to a new way to predict the size of their crop while it’s still buried in the soil. The “Tuberzone” project used the global positioning system (GPS), satellite images, and unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to monitor potato plants as they grew. It predicted the size of…
Read MoreTurning beer byproducts into chairs
GRAINS left over from beer brewing and gin distilling are being turned into tables and chairs for Dundee Science Centre. Aymeric Renoud named his furniture making business after “draff”, the wet grains left behind when beer is made. Renoud adds a binder to draff from 71 Brewing in Dundee and botanicals used to make gin…
Read MoreEdinburgh’s first contactless open-air market
STOCKBRIDGE will host Edinburgh’s first contactless open-air market, with stalls including Bross Bagels, Edinburgh Gin and Luca’s ice cream. The Neighbourgood Market is due to open at The Grange Club on Portgower Place on 15 July. One-way routes and designated circular seating zones for small groups will be put in place. Partnerships have been agreed…
Read MoreHighland Game invests £150,000 to combat covid-19
BRITAIN’S biggest venison supplier has pumped £150,000 into its business so it can keep feeding the nation during the coronavirus pandemic. Dundee-based Highland Game has also created 15 jobs to take its headcount to more than 80. The company needs the extra workers to implement its socially-distanced shift patterns, with fewer members of staff able…
Read MoreScotland is ‘king’ of sustainable prawns
A FARM in Stirlingshire that rears king prawns is selling its crustacean direct to the public for the first time. Balfron-based Great British Prawns, which opened last year, will harvest its warm water Litopenaeus vannamei each week and delivery them via courier to most parts of the UK – but not the Highlands and islands…
Read More‘Bad Girl’ serves up good news as bakery reopens
BAD Girl Bakery in Muir of Ord has turned its café into a shop – and is even giving away some of its baking secrets. The bakery, which opened in 2017, is selling the ingredients for some of its signature dishes, so customers can try their hand at baking at home. Baking equipment is also…
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