CAMRA Edinburgh & SE Scotland

Scottish Brewer Innis & Gunn bought by C&C. 105 job losses Scottish craft brewer Innis and Gunn has been bought out of administration by C&C who own Tennents lager. As a result the brewery and three taps will be closed with a loss of 105 jobs. C&C …

This also involves the closure of Inveralmond Brewery. Another sad loss @rogerprotz.bsky.social wp.me/p15p2Q-ghr

Painting pints and pubs. A corner in Roseburn Bar, Edinburgh.

The winners of this year's Branch Pub of the Year awards are....
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Reminder: Friday Pints at the Malt & Hops, Shore, Leith.
Friday 27 February from 4pm.
Last Friday of every month. A relaxed 'drop-in' social in a single pub for a couple of hours. Either come to catch up or simply be in the company of others.

Reminder: GBG Vote Meeting at the Lauri, Saturday 21 Feb, 12:30pm onwards. MEMBERS ONLY.

Meeting will start at 13:00. Your annual chance to vote from the hitlist for pubs to be included in the 2027 GBG. Also vote for your Pub of the Year in Borders, Edinburgh, Lothians & Cider Pub of the Year.

1987 black and white newsprint advert. "BEER AND LAGER FESTIVAL. JUNE 8-13. AT THE NORTHERN BAR, CANONMILLS. ALL DRAUGHT BEERS AND LAGERS 80P PER PINT... DON'T BE SHY, GIVE ALLOA A TRY AT THE NORTHERN BAR"

I am liking the sound, and mainly the prices, of this 1987 beer and lager festival. 80p a pint then would be ~£2.35 today. The Northern Bar is now known as The Orchard, more of a restaurant with a bar attached these days. 🍻

Congratulations to Kay’s Bar on winning this year’s Branch Real Ale Quality Award!

Reminder: Presentation for Real Ale Quality Award - Kay's Bar.
Friday 30 Jan at 5pm.
Presentation of the overall branch winner of the Real Ale Quality Award 2025.
Location: Kay’s Bar, 39 Jamaica St.

The thread about the Great Edinburgh Beer Duty Fraud: Boiling the Wort and Cooking the Books It was 3AM on Christmas morning 1933 when - after a long and cold stakeout - not Santa but three agents of His Majesty's Customs & Excise entered the renowned Bell's Brewery on the Pleasance and caught the brewers in the act of working illicitly. They didn't yet know it but the trio had just uncovered the UK's largest ever duty fraud, one with a record that would not be broken for decades to come. So ended the Great Edinburgh Beer Duty Fraud. And so also begins its story, the story of a company set up by Victorian venture capitalists in "An Alcoholic Haze of Ambition" and which had to struggle through 40 years of economic hardship only to decide that criminality was a course of action preferable to watering down their famously strong beer.

The thread about the Great Edinburgh Beer Duty Fraud: Boiling the Wort and Cooking the Books

It was 3AM on Christmas morning 1933 when - after a long and cold stakeout - not Santa but three agents of His Majesty's Customs & Excise entered the renowned Bell's Brewery on the Pleasance and caught the…

Reminder: Branch Social Meeting at the Artisan Bar, London Rd, Sat 24 January.
2-2:30 Social. Prompt meeting start 2:30pm. Our monthly meeting with your chance to come along and meet fellow members, enjoy a beer and share pub and brewery news. Post meeting social at Safari, then Bellfield Taproom.

BREAKING: Well done publicans! Following industry outcry, Labour to announce climbdown on #BusinessRates rise "in the coming days" to hand a lifeline to pubs. (To reduce the "multiplier" percentage of a pub's rateable value). #BskyBeer

Reminder: Two-Pub Social - The Hanging Bat, then the Blue Blazer, on
Thursday 8 Jan from 7:30pm.
All welcome. Please come and meet other members and have a chat and a beer. We often move to the second pub between 8:30 and 9pm. These socials are on the second Thursday of every month.

Future of union set hits point of no return Last month, the drinks business reported on efforts to find a new home for the historic six-barrel union set gifted by the Carlsberg Marston’s Brewing Company (now Carlsberg Britvic) to Epochal Barrel...

The Glasgow union is in the last chance saloon. This is not a drill. Please share far and wide.

Reminder: Southside Twixmas Social, on Saturday 27 December.
Approximate timings:
2pm John Leslie's (Leslie's Bar)
3:15 Dagda
4:45 Steel Coulson

(Dagda and Steel Coulson have been swapped due to Steel Coulson changing their opening hours for the festive period. They open at 4.)

Reminder: Branch Social Meeting at the Nether Abbey Hotel, North Berwick on Saturday 20 December.
2-2:30pm Social. Prompt meeting start 2:30pm. Come along and meet fellow members, enjoy a beer and share pub and brewery news. Post meeting social at Auld Hoose, followed by Golfers Rest.

Reminder: East Lothian Social on Saturday 13 Dec from 2pm.
Social to Tower Inn, and Ross High Rugby Club in Tranent, followed by Levenhall Arms in Levenhall. More information at edinburgh.camra.org.uk/diary

Reminder: Two-Pub Social - the Fountain, Dundee St. then the Golden Rule, on Thursday 11 December from 7:30pm.
All welcome. Please come and meet other members and have a chat and a beer. We often move to the second pub between 8:30 and 9pm. These socials are on the second Thursday of every month.

Reminder: Friday Pints at Bennets Bar, Leven St on Friday 28 Nov from 4pm.
Last Friday of every month. A relaxed 'drop-in' social in a single pub for a couple of hours. Either come to catch up or simply be in the company of others.

The Winter 2025 issue of Pints of View magazine is now appearing in real ale outlets in the branch area. This issue includes articles on the Standing Order and the Caley Picture House, and the Forth Valley Dark Ale Trail.

This issue is also available as a PDF at edinburgh.camra.org.uk/magazine

Reminder: Good Beer Guide Hitlist Meeting (Members Only) on Saturday 22 November at The Grey Horse Inn, Balerno. 1:30pm for a 2pm meeting start.
This is where the branch gets together to review the hitlist of outlets with the task of compiling final lists for Borders, Edinburgh & Lothians.

Reminder: Friday Pints at Cloisters Bar, 26 Brougham St on Friday 31 Oct from 4pm.
Last Friday of every month. A relaxed 'drop-in' social in a single pub for a couple of hours. Either come to catch up or simply be in the company of others.

Reminder: Presentation for Pub of the Year Finalist on Saturday 25 Oct at 1pm.
A presentation made by Regional Director Stuart McMahon to celebrate Staggs being one of the final 4 pubs in the National Pub of the Year award.
Location
Staggs (The Volunteer Arms), 81 N High St, Musselburgh

Reminder: Branch Social Meeting - Carriers Quarters, Bernard St, Leith on Saturday 18 October.
2-2:30pm Social. Prompt meeting start 2:30pm. Our monthly meeting with your chance to come along and meet fellow members, enjoy a beer and share pub and brewery news. Post meeting social at Malt & Hops.

Fab Four revealed The fight to win CAMRA’s National Pub of the Year 2025 competition is hotting up with just four pubs remaining after months of rigorous judging.  The final round of assessments is underway with the re...

Congratulations to Staggs, National Pub of the Year finalist ! 👏
camra.org.uk/articles/2615

Reminder: Two-Pub Social - Brass Monkey (Grange), then Old Bell Inn on Thursday 9 Oct from 7:30pm.
All welcome. Please come and meet other members and have a chat and a beer. We often move to the second pub between 8:30 and 9pm. These socials are on the second Thursday of every month.

Who's got their Good Beer Guide 2026? Alongside best pubs & beers, foreword @mredbyrne.bsky.social intro @corbettcollins.bsky.social feature @katiematherkm.bsky.social & myself. Well done Managing Editor Emma Haines.

Reminder: Friday Pints at the Old Eastway Tap, 218 Easter Rd on Friday 26 Sept from 4pm.
Last Friday of every month. A relaxed 'drop-in' social in a single pub for a couple of hours. Either come to catch up or simply be in the company of others.

Reminder: Branch Social Meeting at Lauri (formerly Brauhaus), Lauriston Place on Saturday 20 September.
2-2:30pm Social. Prompt meeting start 2:30pm. The pub is very kindly to opening early for us - the doors will not be open before 2pm. Post meeting social at Seamus's Pub, then Cloisters Bar.

Reminder: Leith Two-Pub Social - The Angel (Constitution St), then the Persevere, on Thursday 11 Sept from 7:30pm.
All welcome. Please come and meet other members and have a chat and a beer. We often move to the second pub between 8:30 and 9pm.

Storytelling and brewing in tribal South Africa - Beer Today Moonwake Brewery, in Edinburgh, is to screen a film made by a South African brewer and film-maker Obakeng Malope, in association with Women in Beer

Moonwake Brewery, in Edinburgh, is to screen a film made by a South African brewer and film-maker Obakeng Malope, in association with Women in Beer beertoday.co.uk/2025/08/30/w... #beer #beernews #film @womeninbeer.bsky.social