Drygate Bar + Kitchen
85 Drygate
One of the few places you can try all Drygate’s small-batch stuff while watching beers like fan favourite Disco Forklift Truck being made through the big windows at the back. The taproom has the full range of their beers plus runs all sorts of gig nights and events.

Grunting Growler
51 Old Dumbarton Road
Owner Jehad Hatu is the personality in Glasgow’s craft beer scene: his knowledge and energy are legendary. No other bottle shop comes close to the range here, and the draft lines aren’t afraid to get the biggest, most-hyped beers from anywhere in the world.

Inn Deep
445 Great Western Road
The best location for any bar in this list, looking out onto the River Kelvin and its walkway. They strike a lovely balance of rotating lines from UK breweries and permanent, very keenly priced stuff from Williams Brothers. It makes for a healthily mixed clientele.

Innis & Gunn
22–24 West Nile Street & 44–46 Ashton Lane
Taproom operations from a brewery this size are an understandably slick operation but it’s not without merit. Try their own tank lager alongside every other Innis & Gunn beer imaginable, as well as other rotating smaller Scottish craft outfits in their 20-plus lines. Check out their steak-frîtes deal too.

Koelschip Yard
686–688 Pollokshaws Road
One for the hardcore and the purists. The who’s who of the UK craft scene have all passed through the doors of this Southside mainstay with its 18 lines and world-class bottle selection. There’s always some sort of event or takeover going on and whether it’s a West Coast IPA or a barrel-aged sour, you’re covered.

The Old Toll Bar
1 Paisley Road West
One of the city’s most beautiful old pub interiors is backed up by eight rotating lines, expertly curated to include hazy pale ales, fruit ales and Belgian classics. Nowhere else on Paisley Road West ticks such boxes.

Redmond’s Of Dennistoun
304 Duke Street
A neighborhood pub with a neon Tennent’s sign that also manages to accommodate fridges with 150-plus craft beers and five rotational lines, and does monthly tap takeovers with some of the best breweries in Britain. A big German and Belgian focus too.

Shilling Brewing Co
92 West George Street
The place to go in the city centre. More than 20 rotating lines with a particular emphasis on Scottish breweries as well as hazy pales aplenty, though there’s always at least one maniac super-strong stout on to end the night as well.

Also try… Bavaria Brauhaus for its lines devoted to the lagers and weissbiers of Germany, arguably the biggest beer country of them all. Similarly, WEST On The Green (the taproom for WEST brewery) serves all of that Glasgow-based outfit’s beers, made in line with the German purity law.

This TipList is taken from Eat & Drink 365 Glasgow, our sister mag recommending the best in restaurants, bars, cafés and more. Want a copy? It’s available online or across all good stockists in Glasgow.