Great Grog Bottleshop

19/04/2025

Feeling springy despite the damp? The shops are open as usual over Easter with tipples galore. Feel free to gambol in.

14/04/2025

Beer fair Saturday 24th May. 1-5pm! 🍻

We are delighted to announce the attendees of our 2025 beer fair. As ever, we are very grateful to all the breweries attending!

🎟️ TICKETS £20 https://www.greatgrog.co.uk/product/grog-beer-fair-2025/
(£5 redeemable against store purchases)

📍Greyfriars Charteris Centre, Edinburgh

Join us for a relaxed afternoon sampling dozens of beers and ciders. A great opportunity to chat to some very knowledgeable folk:
Barney's Beer
Newbarns Brewery
Simple Things Fermentations
Tempest Brewing Co.
Campervan Brewery
Pilot
Overtone Brewing Co
Holy Goat Brewing
The Kernel 🤫
+ George from HardPressed slinging some awesome ciders 🍎

- Unlimited samples included in ticket price
- £5 refundable against store purchases
- All beers available to buy on the day while stocks last

07/04/2025

With the ☀️ out what’s better than a cold cider to stay hydrated!?
We got your back!
stems from over 2 decades of experience in the world of Champagne.
They set about trying to create the purest expression of Cider. A cider that is elegant, refined and generous. A Cider that perfectly expresses the potential and brilliance of the humble apple. A Cider like no other, they use apples from their ancient walled garden as well as a number of other local orchards (and a few further afield!).

Their process mirrors that of the Champenoise. Primary fermentation is done using a Champagne yeast in barrels previously used to make Champagne. The apple must (Cider before it is bottled) then ages on lees (dead yeast cells) for 10 months before being bottled.

Bottling involves adding more Champagne yeast and sugar to create the magical bubbles! The bottles then sit for 2 years (and some cuvees for much longer than this) before being disgorged by hand and corked. Before finding its way into your glass!

Enjoy!

28/02/2025

Lots of new beers, including a mega shipment from Bavaria/Franconia. These ones don’t hang around 🇩🇪

Also Featuring: Vault City, Newbarns, Donzoko, Moonwake, Not that California, Mains Brewery, Sureshot, Indie Rabble.

19/02/2025

04/01/2025

We’re back open again as normal 🍻

Mmm lots of yummy dark beers (plus some awesome Peach spirit by the good folks Holyrood Distillery Pilot) to cosy in to. Did you know it it’s gonna be -5C next week?! ❄️

24/12/2024

Merry Christmas & thank you to all of you lovely lot! It’s been an absolute pleasure procuring the best drinks around, and we’re very grateful to all who set foot through our doors 🤶 🎄
Love John, Tommy, Tobi, James, Katie, Adi, Fraser & Barney 🐾

13/09/2024

Last couple of festbiers on the shelves today 🇩🇪

06/09/2024

Edinburgh giving atmospheric Bavarian Forest vibes on this misty day. Quite proud of that photo actually 😎

YES Oktoberfest beers are here!! Where has the year gone?! Who cares…let’s try some of the tastiest lagers on the planet brewed for another German excuse for a party. A little darker, a little richer and a little higher in alchohol than your standard Helles lager, these guys are the perfect Segway into autumn 🍂

The Auggys are in next week guys don’t worry 😉

14/08/2024

I was going through some old photos of the Pleasance shop and came across this Edinburgh Fire Brigade photo from the 1890s.
Some right characters, I wouldn't mess with them....

19/07/2024

We’ve all made it to another Friday on this planet congrats! Time for some new beers. Got some belters in here:
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Crossborders - Braw hazy pale
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Crossborders - heavy 80/-
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Crossborders - session pale
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Crossborders - IPA
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Crossborders - American pale
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Pilot - IPandarin
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Overtone - standard tuning pale ale
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Overtone - lost in the dream DIPA
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Overtone - there she gose
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Overtone - cosmic dancer TIPA
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Overtone - Sonnet DIPA
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇸🇪 Newbarns x Omnipollo - Gordon’s comfort mild
🇸🇪 Omnipollo non alcoholic blueberry maple pancake
🇸🇪 🇺🇸 Omnipollo x Yakima chief Citra hop selection
🇸🇪🇺🇸 Omnipollo x toppling Goliath - pseudo church DIPA
🇸🇪🇮🇹 Omnipollo x Bierficcio Italiano - Tipo pasta 🍝 Italian lager
🇸🇪 Omnipollo pecan mudcake stout
🇸🇪 Omnipollo - non alcoholic coffee stout
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Yonder - Twister sour
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Yonder - rhubarb cheesecake sour
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Yonder - mango and lime popsicle sour
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Arbor - passionfruit margarita sour
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Arbor - Matt le Blanche witbier
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Arbor - Caramel and chocolate shortbread stout
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Vault city - caterpillar cake stout
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Vault city - piece of cake sour
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Vault city - dream cake sour
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Cloudwater - fuzzy hazy pale ale
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Sureshot - who’s afraid of Jeff Goldbloom NEIPA

05/07/2024

Some massive new flavours on the shelves for a post election chill weekend. 🍻 Sun is shining so let’s go:
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Pilot - Sunny pale ale
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Pilot - Snakebite and black
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Pilot - sour white grape pale ale
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Pilot x Twin ports - blood orange wee wit
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Closet - lost in the sauce NEIPA
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇨🇦 Newbarns x Willibald- our good friends West coast IPA
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Newbarns - Garum anchiovy hopped Pilsner
Newbarns - 70/-
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Swannay - Mosaic IPA
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Swannay - Orkney session beer
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Two towns - Salted caramel stout
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Simple things - Pineapple IPA
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Vault city - passionfruit banana manage banana coconut cream
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Vault city - Mountain brew
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Vault city - fruits of the forest white chocolate banana crumble
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Overtone - Crystal ball TIPA
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Overtone - Same old song IPA
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Brew toon x Yonder - Orange and Cherry sherbet sour
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Brew toon ich man boogie - Weissbier
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Stewart’s - Raspberry honey oat pale
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Moonwake - Trilogy pale ale
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Holy goat - unicorn wizard golden sour with peaches
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Holy goat. - blood goat Flanders red with raspberries
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Holy goat. - Rogue planet Honduran coffee stout
☘️ Bullhouse - Yer da DIPA
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Arbor - extra special bitter
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 JumpShip - Gooseberry Gose
🇳🇴 Lervig - Vin Santo barrel aged sour
🇳🇴 Lervig - Ice planet barrel aged imperial stout with maple syrup and vanilla hazelnut
🇳🇴 Lervig salt and lime gluten free Pilsner
🇳🇴 Lervig no worries lemon radler
🇧🇪 Gouden Carolus - pine needle infused bottle conditioned blonde

29/06/2024

Big old delivery from Deutschland 🇩🇪 Here we go. Give us a DM if you want to get on our soon to be monthly mailer for updates!
Weissenoher Glocken hell
Weissenoher Altfrankish
Meister brau hell
Gaffel lemon radler
St georgenbrau hello
Veldensteiner Krausen Helles
Veldensteiner hell
Tucher rotbier
Veldensteiner mandarina bavaria Weissbier
Sternla Helles
Banjuvator Doppelbock
Weissenoher Marzen
Knappentrunk dunkles
Neumarkter lammsbeau Weisse
Goller steinhauer Weisse
Leikheim hell
Meckatzer white gold
Monchshof blood orange radler
Goller rauchbier
Leikheim Steinbier
Kossel brau black Madonna stout
Hamburger herren pils
Kapuziner kellerbier
Meckatzer hell
Arcobrah hell
Greif bray cherry radler
Humsbier lager

21/06/2024

Top quality free tasting at Dalkeith Road today 2-7. Same again at Pleasance next week!

17/05/2024

What’s happening everyone? Just about recovered from last weekend. Thanks again to all who came along! Newish in for the weekend: 💫
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Newbarns - 60 shilling
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Newbarns - specific hazy pale
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Pilot - Stout
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Pilot - Azac biscuit pale
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Tempest - fruit machine sour
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Tempest - shangru la shandy
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Tempest - NZ literally Pilsner
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Tempest - My mate Motueka IPA
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Two towns - spoonful apricot sour
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Two towns - belter lager
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿Simple things - DDH IPA
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Holy Goat - Cerulean mixed fermentation golden sour with blueberries
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Holy Goat - Goat smoker double export stout
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Moonwake - NZ IPA
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Vault city - Stoopid Hawaiian smoothie sour
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Vault city - strawberry margarita gose
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Vault city - Cheeky (vimto sour)
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 71 brewing - Subtelty in art imp stout
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 71 brewing heavy lifting - Scottish heavy
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Otherworld - Coconut and S.A. to hazy pale
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Arbor - Lemon sour
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Wiper and true - Happy hour pineapple Gose
☘️ Bullhouse - West coast IPA
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Yonder - Passionfruit nectarine sorbet
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Yonder - Bubblegum unicorn rainbow sprinkles ice cream sour
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Kernel - biere de saison apple
Cantillon stuff 👀 (1 per customer)

09/05/2024

Beer fair stand #5 & #6 + beer list!

PROVISIONAL list (there may be extras):https://www.greatgrog.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Beer-Fair-May-2024-Beer-List-confirmed-PDF.pdf

Tickets 🎟️: https://www.greatgrog.co.uk/product/tasting-ticket-beer-fair-spring-2024/

What do the Highlands and the best establishments of Stockbridge/ New Town have in common? No it’s not tweed, it’s world-class beer from Cromarty Brewing Co. Simply don’t make bad beer. Weizenbocks/West Coast IPAs on show Saturday.

From Lochaber, we’re hosting Glen Spean Brewing Co showcasing their range. Seriously underrated brewery for some classics. As with Cromarty, soft Highland water really elevates beer. Based in an 18th C. steading, with views over Aonoch Mor ⛰️

03/05/2024

SHOPS NEWS: Super proud of Tobia and Tommy on their WSET wine exam level 3 merits and Adi for her near perfect score in her level 2 (merit) 😜