Babbity Bowster
16–18 Blackfriars Street, Glasgow G1 1PE
Pub, restaurant and small hotel in an 18th-century Merchant City townhouse, listed in CAMRA's Good Beer Guide. Usually three cask ales, mostly from Scottish breweries, plus Scottish cooking and a sheltered courtyard beer garden. Open daily from noon to midnight.
Drygate Brewing Co.
85 Drygate, Glasgow G4 0UT
Glasgow's 'experiential' brewery in a converted box factory next to Tennent's Wellpark Brewery, below the Necropolis: about 24 taps led by Drygate's own beers, a brasserie, a rooftop terrace and brewery tours. Open noon to midnight Sunday to Thursday, noon to 1am Friday and Saturday.
Grunting Growler
51 Old Dumbarton Road, Glasgow G3 8RF
Independent craft beer bottle shop and tap room with 300-plus beers, natural wines and ciders, six rotating taps (mostly KeyKeg), tasters before you buy, and growler fills to take away. Open 2–10pm Tuesday to Thursday and Sunday, noon–10pm Friday and Saturday.
Inn Deep
445 Great Western Road, Glasgow G12 8HH
Independent craft beer bar in the old railway arches below Great Western Road, right on the River Kelvin, with about 33 rotating taps, a big riverside beer garden, a seasonal Bridge Bar, and pizza from Sub Rosa's kitchen. Open noon to midnight Monday to Saturday, noon to 11pm Sunday.
Republic Bier Halle
9 Gordon Street, Glasgow G1 3PL
Underground Czech- and German-style beer hall, open since 1999, with over 100 draught and bottled beers from around the world, thin-crust pizza and bratwurst, and a covered, heated terrace along Gordon Street. Open noon to midnight daily.
Shilling Brewing Co.
92 West George Street, Glasgow G2 1PJ
City-centre brewpub in a former Bank of Scotland banking hall, with the brewhouse on show and 30-plus draught lines, several brewed on site, plus stone-baked pizza. Open noon to 11pm Sunday to Thursday, noon to midnight Friday and Saturday.
The Ben Nevis
1147 Argyle Street, Finnieston, Glasgow G3 8TB
Small, fire-lit Finnieston bar with around 300 malt whiskies, a few good draught beers and cask ale, and traditional music sessions on Wednesday, Thursday and Sunday from 8pm. Named best bar in Glasgow at a 2026 city awards. Open noon to midnight (12.30pm Sunday).
The Bon Accord
153 North Street, Glasgow G3 7DA
Glasgow's original real-ale house, open since 1971, with up to ten cask lines and 400-plus whiskies, and pub food served daily from noon to 9pm. Open noon to midnight daily.
Three Judges
141 Dumbarton Road, Partick, Glasgow G11 6PR
Partick Cross corner pub that has served changing real ales from around the UK for more than 30 years: nine handpumps plus real cider, a famous chalkboard beer list, CAMRA awards on the walls and Sunday jazz. Open from 11am daily until 11pm or midnight.
WEST on the Green
Templeton Building, 15 Binnie Place, Glasgow Green, Glasgow G40 1AW
WEST's brewery, beer hall and restaurant in the Templeton carpet factory, modelled on the Doge's Palace in Venice. Lagers and wheat beers brewed to the German purity law, German-Scottish food and one of the city's biggest beer gardens, facing Glasgow Green. Open 11am to 11pm Sunday to Thursday, 11am to midnight Friday and Saturday.