No sooner had they asp?conf stopped book advising MacGregor on the requirements for a brewery book book det than they were back to investigate the worries of local residents. Whatever you think about beer, you book can't make it without giving off that sweet, hoppy aroma."Separate complaints were made to this department," id=5 intones asp?conf Ian Muir from Glasgow District Council's environmental health department. "Under the Public Health det (Scotland) Act asp?conf id=5 of book id=5 1897 we are required to det investigate." Surprisingly in this hi-tech age, det "investigating" involves someone from the office going down to the complainant and, well, sniffing. Only book 12 people complained, most of them book in book the asp?conf id=5 flats immediately above the asp?conf brewery. Still, says id=5 Muir, "the complaint was book book det substantiated as far as we're concerned.

It does sound a bit subjective but after nearly 100 years there's an enormous amount of case law."No one complained about any other aspect of the new venture. Having customers who took their beer home before they drank seemed an improvement on the lively student pub next door. MacGregor tried to meet his neighbours half way and put in more sophisticated ventilation. But unlike a restaurant where all the cooking smells come from the cooker and can be siphoned out through a hood, in the brewery, the aroma - or the stench, depending on your point of view - is pervasive.It was on the basis of the environmental health department's recommendation that MacGregor's formal planning application for Glasgow's first new brewery this century was rejected last month An enforcement order to close it down has now been issued. You may think it a tad rash to spend £25,000 on a brewery before you get permission But it seemed like a good idea at the time "We wanted to extend the pub," explains MacGregor. "But the council said the only things they would allow there were an undertakers, a post office, a launderette, an antique shop or a small manufacturing unit." He looked at the surrounding area, which has several other pubs and a number of takeaway food outlets, and came up with the solution: "We thought we'd have take-away beer, manufactured on the premises."Unofficially the council thought it was a great idea, especially with the Richard Rogers-style display Indeed, according to a spokesman, it still does .. in principle.

But it couldn't ignore its environmental health department.MacGregor, however, is not going to give up easily "We're going to appeal If that fails we'll go to the Secretary of State. We'll go all the way." If anything, he wants to expand the brewery. Indeed, there is a suggestion that he needs to expand it to make the unit economically viable. MacGregor denies this, but concedes his enthusiasm for the brewery is for the market opportunity it represents rather than the beer."I drink whisky myself. But even the big brewers are beginning to install gravity pumps in their pubs in the west of Scotland, now. It's what people are asking for." While the appeal process drags on, the Best Bracken, a pale but tasty bitter, the Double Whammy, a strong ale, and the Pride of the Clyde, a lighter ale, continue to be available Hurry while stocks are still being brewed.. The Christmas and New Year double issue of the New Yorker carried an article under the rubric "A Critic at Bay" - the regular heading being the less embattled "A Critic at Large" - by the magazine's dance critic, Arlene Croce, with a forthright title "Discussing the Undiscussable" and a grievance to match: the replacement of a viable dance culture by special- interests posturing - what Croce calls "victim art" - as exemplified by a piece of work, Still / Here, by the dancer-choreographer Bill T Jones, which she has chosen not to see.