Craig's Edinburgh Bar Guide

The Bow Bar
80 West Bow, Victoria Street
EH1 2HH
Phone: 0131 226 7667

Craig Says:

" If my memory serves me right the Tap has 7 taps, the Bow 8(tall fonts) and Cloisters 9. Core wise they all carry at least 1 Stewart beer a great little Edinburgh based brewer, and Cloisters recently replaced the Landord with a Highland Scapa Special as a permanent beer. Again a great brewer its just a shame it wasnt their 9% Orkney Porter as a permanent beer. Cloisters also has a house special in Stewarts Holy Grail as well as Trade winds and Stewart IPA on at all times. Where as the Tap has Trade Winds & Stewarts IPA & 80/- as permanent beers

Both the Bow and Cloisters recently replaced Guinness, with kegged Black Isle Porter, and the Tap has permanently Black Isle Golden Eye on keg both of which seems to have been a great success and its great to see support of a Scottish brewery over a multinational."

Cloisters
26 Brougham Street
EH3 9JH
Phone: 0131 221 9997


Craig Says:

" If my memory serves me right the Tap has 7 taps, the Bow 8(tall fonts) and Cloisters 9. Core wise they all carry at least 1 Stewart beer a great little Edinburgh based brewer, and Cloisters recently replaced the Landord with a Highland Scapa Special as a permanent beer. Again a great brewer its just a shame it wasnt their 9% Orkney Porter as a permanent beer. Cloisters also has a house special in Stewarts Holy Grail as well as Trade winds and Stewart IPA on at all times. Where as the Tap has Trade Winds & Stewarts IPA & 80/- as permanent beers

Both the Bow and Cloisters recently replaced Guinness, with kegged Black Isle Porter, and the Tap has permanently Black Isle Golden Eye on keg both of which seems to have been a great success and its great to see support of a Scottish brewery over a multinational."

The Stockbridge Tap
2-4 Raeburn Place
EH4 1HN
Phone: 0131 343 3000

Craig Says:

"Though the Tap is a little more out of the way, being in Stockbridge its still only about 20 minutes walk from Cloisters, so its quite possible to do a nice little walking tour of Edinburgh pick up beer in all three bars"

The Guildford Arms
1 WEST REGISTER STREET
EH2 2AA
Phone: 0131 556 4312

Craig Says:

"The Guildford Arms (1 WEST REGISTER STREET, EH2 2AA, 0131 556 4312) at the East end of Princess Street, has really improved in my opinion on what it was 3-4 years ago, It carryies 10 tap 6 of which are usually Scottish and 4 that can be from anywhere. The Guildford is at its best though when it has one of its regular beer festival where they tend to look far and wide for interesting beers. They also seem to use a different supplier from the Cloister/Bow/Tap and as such often have beers from breweries that are not seen else where."

Malt & Hops
45 Shore
Leith
EH6 6QU
Phone: 0131 555 0083)

Craig Says:

"While a little bit out of the way in Leith, does some great beers with a well thought out selection or mostly changing tap of which i think there are 8. A pub that i wish wasnt so far from my house (opposite side of town, as id like to drink there more often)"

The Blue Blazer
2 Spittal Street
EH3 9DX
Phone: 229 5030

Craig says:

"handily on the way between Cloister and the Bow , or Cloister and the Tap. The Blue Blazer has about 7 tap (2 of which are tall fonts), and mostly deals in Scottish beers, though you will occasionally find and English guest beer."

39 Jamaica Street
EH3 6HF
Phone: 0131 225 1858

Craig Says:

"Kays bar (39 Jamaica Street, EH3 6HF, 0131 225 1858) ( a great little stop on the way to the Stockbridge tap) is a small cosy little boozer with 4 well looked after beers, again mostly Scottish, As a place to sit and drink its one of my favour places."

24 Fleshmarket Close
EH1 1BX
Phone: 0131 225 7101

Craig Says:

"a tiny little pub hidden up a narrow alleyway behind Waverley railway station, It carries 4 taps usually from Scotland or the North of England. But its again a great little pub to sit and have a pint."

143 Cowgate Edinburgh
EH1 1JS

Craig Says:

"Finally no beer trip to Edinburgh would be complete with out a trip to the Newly opened Brewdog bar. The delight here is finding beers from the likes of Nogne and Mikkeller on tap, if you have never had beers from these wonderful brewers then this is the place to correct that omission either from tap or bottle"

Additional bar suggested by @TheBlackIsleBoy

Additional bar suggested by @TheBlackIsleBoy

Craig said:

"The Brau haus, yeah large range of btls commonly available in the UK, very few worth it"

Additional bar suggested by @TheBlackIsleBoy

11-14a West Maitland Street,
EDINBURGH,
EH12 5DS

Suggested by Craig on twitter for pubs near Morrison Street.

182-184 Morrison Street,
EDINBURGH,
EH3 8

Suggested by Craig on twitter for pubs near Morrison Street.

237 Morningside Rd
Edinburgh
Midlothian
EH10 4QU

@robsterowski "beer is nothing special but it's where Michael Jackson used to drink"

43-45 The Causeway
Edinburgh, Midlothian EH15 3QA
0131 661 7974

@AdamSh "A good Edin s/side pub walk is Cask&Barrel (s/side), Sheep Heid, Radical Road, Dalriada, Staggs (Vol Arms) then bus back"

@CAGarvie "Southside nice.Sheep head for the pub rather than beer is great but bit out,radical good local but id not send peeps there"

@AdamSh "Radical good stop on walk (not all nighter), Dalriada gr views, Staggs for the banter. Sometimes wish I lived in Edin!"

229 Willowbrae Road
Edinburgh, Midlothian EH8 7ND
0131 661 1116

@AdamSh "A good Edin s/side pub walk is Cask&Barrel (s/side), Sheep Heid, Radical Road, Dalriada, Staggs (Vol Arms) then bus back"

@CAGarvie "Southside nice.Sheep head for the pub rather than beer is great but bit out,radical good local but id not send peeps there"

@AdamSh "Radical good stop on walk (not all nighter), Dalriada gr views, Staggs for the banter. Sometimes wish I lived in Edin!"

77 Promenade
Edinburgh, Midlothian EH15 2EL
0131 454 4500

@AdamSh "A good Edin s/side pub walk is Cask&Barrel (s/side), Sheep Heid, Radical Road, Dalriada, Staggs (Vol Arms) then bus back"

@CAGarvie "Southside nice.Sheep head for the pub rather than beer is great but bit out,radical good local but id not send peeps there"

@AdamSh "Radical good stop on walk (not all nighter), Dalriada gr views, Staggs for the banter. Sometimes wish I lived in Edin!"

81 North High Street
Musselburgh, Midlothian EH21 6JE
0131 665 9654

@AdamSh "A good Edin s/side pub walk is Cask&Barrel (s/side), Sheep Heid, Radical Road, Dalriada, Staggs (Vol Arms) then bus back"

@CAGarvie "Southside nice.Sheep head for the pub rather than beer is great but bit out,radical good local but id not send peeps there"

@AdamSh "Radical good stop on walk (not all nighter), Dalriada gr views, Staggs for the banter. Sometimes wish I lived in Edin!"

115 Broughton St
Edinburgh
EH1 3RZ
0131 556 3132

 

 

I got this mixed up with the other Cask  & Barrel - which is further south!