CAMRA Edinburgh & SE Scotland
@edinburghcamra.bsky.social
We are the Edinburgh & South-East Scotland branch of the Campaign for Real Ale (CAMRA). A not-for-profit consumer group that campaigns on all beer & pub issues.
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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
This issue is also available as a PDF at edinburgh.camra.org.uk/magazine
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.
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.
January 28, 2026 at 6:25 PM
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.
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.
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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…
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…
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.
threadinburgh.scot
January 24, 2026 at 6:45 AM
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…
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.
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.
January 22, 2026 at 3:40 PM
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.
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.
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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
January 8, 2026 at 3:36 PM
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.
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.
January 4, 2026 at 10:48 AM
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.
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.
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The Glasgow union is in the last chance saloon. This is not a drill. Please share far and wide.
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...
www.thedrinksbusiness.com
December 23, 2025 at 9:22 AM
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.)
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.)
December 23, 2025 at 9:54 AM
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.)
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.
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.
December 17, 2025 at 9:52 PM
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.
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
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
Branch Diary - Edinburgh & South-East Scotland CAMRA
edinburgh.camra.org.uk
December 9, 2025 at 11:35 PM
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
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.
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.
December 6, 2025 at 8:41 PM
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.
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.
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.
November 23, 2025 at 6:45 PM
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.
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
This issue is also available as a PDF at edinburgh.camra.org.uk/magazine
November 21, 2025 at 10:36 PM
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
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.
This is where the branch gets together to review the hitlist of outlets with the task of compiling final lists for Borders, Edinburgh & Lothians.
November 17, 2025 at 9:33 PM
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.
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.
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.
October 27, 2025 at 11:41 PM
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.
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
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
October 20, 2025 at 1:03 PM
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
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.
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.
October 13, 2025 at 9:25 PM
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.
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.
Congratulations to Staggs, National Pub of the Year finalist ! 👏
camra.org.uk/articles/2615
camra.org.uk/articles/2615
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...
camra.org.uk
October 13, 2025 at 12:37 PM
Congratulations to Staggs, National Pub of the Year finalist ! 👏
camra.org.uk/articles/2615
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.
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.
October 5, 2025 at 10:33 AM
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.
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.
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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.
September 27, 2025 at 10:49 AM
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.
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.
September 21, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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.
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.
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.
September 16, 2025 at 10:06 AM
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.
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.
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.
September 6, 2025 at 10:46 PM
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.
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.
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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
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
beertoday.co.uk
August 30, 2025 at 12:11 PM
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
Reminder: Friday Pints on 29 August at The Abbotsford Bar & Restaurant, 3-5 Rose St, 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.
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.
August 24, 2025 at 10:14 PM
Reminder: Friday Pints on 29 August at The Abbotsford Bar & Restaurant, 3-5 Rose St, 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.
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 - Black Bull, Mid Calder on Saturday 23 August, 2pm for 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.
August 18, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Reminder: Branch Social Meeting - Black Bull, Mid Calder on Saturday 23 August, 2pm for 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.