Fallen Brewing Co

A quietly excellent Stirlingshire brewery that lets the beer do the talking. Fallen's Odyssey — a 4.1% session IPA — is one of the most balanced pale ales brewed in Scotland: enough hop character to be interesting, enough restraint to be properly sessionable. Their range avoids the extremes (no 10% imperial pastry stouts here) in favour of well-made, drinkable beer at sensible strengths. The Local Motive series uses Scottish-grown ingredients where possible. No tap room currently, but widely available in central Scotland bottle shops and some pubs on guest keg lines. The kind of brewery that serious beer drinkers quietly respect.