The Pot Still keeps roughly 1,000 bottles open at once in one Victorian room, and nothing on that gantry is there to look at. Every pour at the Scotch Malt Whisky Society is a single cask at cask strength, so you taste the barrel instead of a blender's house style. The Bon Accord's 380 malts run from about GBP 3 to GBP 900 a measure, which means you can drink well there for the price of a pint. Tell the staff at The Ben Nevis what you like and they pick off a ten-foot back-bar shelf.
Whisky bars.
The rooms, best first
- The Pot Stillvisited
The single Victorian room has poured whisky since 1981, and the Murphys hold the gantry to a fixed ceiling so everything on it is there to be poured.
- The Scotch Malt Whisky Societyvisited
Every pour is a Society single cask at cask strength, and the Glasgow gantry runs past 850 of them.
- Ubiquitous Chipvisited
The Wee Whisky Bar upstairs is where the dram comes before the fried potatoes with mojo verde.
- Lismoreverified
A whisky and cask ale pub where the malt list rather than the beer is the reason to stop.
- The Bon Accordverified
The gantry runs to 380 malts priced from about three pounds to nine hundred a measure.
- The Piper Whisky Barvisited
Past 300 malts with a bottling claimed from every Scottish distillery, and Whisky Bar of the Year in 2024.
- The Ben Nevisverified
Staff pick a malt off the ten-foot back-bar shelf to whatever you tell them you like.
- The Islay Innverified
Keeps an Islay gantry in the bar Thomas Blue built out of an ice-cream factory in 1968.