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Shilling Brewing Company, Glasgow
Glasgow
G2 1PJ
Reviews (Current Rating Average: 7½ of 10) see review guidelines
Colin Walker left this review about Shilling Brewing Company
The original building was built for the Commercial Bank of Scotland in the 1920’s, which later became part of RBS via mergers. The building was acquired in July 1996 by the pub chain Pitcher & Piano to be converted into their first venue outside of London. Then operating as the horror-themed pub Frankenstein and later Horton's Bar & Kitchen. Glendola Leisure Group has invested £1.5 million in refurbishing the interior into a 160 seat for brew house Shilling Brewing Company in June 2016. A specialist bar that brews its own craft beer. The owner Waxy O’Connors at 44 West George Street, which also operates Alston Bar & Beef restaurant Gordon Street and Gordon St Coffee shop in the city, has created twenty new jobs at the venue. The bank’s original foot-thick steel vault door was kept intact, leading downstairs into a private tasting room and the cellar. Instead of tucking the brewery away out of sight, the system is split across two levels. On the ground floor, two prominent copper storage vessels sit directly behind the bar on an elevated gantry. The venue features a unique layout of eight high-set brewing tuns/tanks mounted along the wall near the ceiling line. The rest of the heavy infrastructure—including the main fermentation tanks—is housed downstairs in the basement cellar. At the time of visiting late Sept 2026 the beers on the bar were – Session IPA from Stewart Brewing – Jungle Hijinxs from Cromarty Brewing – Funk Weapon from Holy Goat Brewing – Machine Gun Lager from Shilling – Thistly Cross Cider – Haze Halo IPA from 71 Brewing – Hawaiian Shirt IPA from Tennessee Hills Distillery – Year 1 Foundations from Vault City Brewing – Paolozzi from Edinburgh Beer Factory – Nelson IPA from Moonwake – Coney Hazy Session IPA from Brew in York – Sanctum West Coast IPA from Otherworld Brewing – Kool Runnings from Cromarty Brewing – Tennent lager from the Wellpark Brewery – Cast Iron Soul Baltic Porter from 71 Brewing – BA NYX Historic Porter from Otherworld Brewery is a 7.1% ABV dark, rich historical porter inspired by 19th-century brewing recipes – Cresta Stout from Tempest Brewing - Sabra Cadabra a Vanilla Stout from Holy Goat Brewing – Maelstrom DIPA from Otherworld Brewing – Tenements Lager from Simple Things Fermentations – Karaoke Amarillo Pale from Weekend Project.
On 8th October 2026
- rating: 10
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Will Larter left this review about Shilling Brewing Company
As described below, saving me some tedious typing on my phone. Not really my sort of place, a big, empty room with difficult acoustics and keg beer. But someone recommended it, so here I am. Lots of beers from Shilling and others. I went for their Glasgow Red 4.4%, on one of the taps on the back wall. The lass serving had a bit of trouble with it, which meant that her back was to me for about a minute, which is not ideal from a customer service point of view - not only is she not facing me but she can't observe the room and the door and has no idea what might be going on. The beer was priced at £5.70/pint but I was charged £2.99 for my half, which was not as cold or gassy as many keg beers, but if it was cask I would say it was a bit green and underdeveloped.
On 14th November 2024
- rating: 6
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Old Boots left this review about Shilling Brewing Company
Brewery, bar and pizza restaurant in a venerable art deco building, open plan bar area with the counter and brewing vessels to the left, loads more fermenting vessels are visible on the floor above. Keg taps are sort of replicated on the back wall and counter top, below are clear industrial fittings showing beer colour. The high but ornate ceiling combined with little in the way of soft furnishings makes it a wee bit noisy. All keg but the gas is dialled down to sensible levels and the beer is tasty enough. Big screen sports projected onto one wall. Interesting and worth a look.
On 31st March 2022
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Bucking Fastard left this review about Shilling Brewing Company
A huge art deco building ,internally very modern with long high tables with lots reserved on my Friday 5pm visit,but thankfully with times noted.To the left is the bar with wall and bar top taps behind which to full ceiling height are magnificent coppers.Opposite the high tables is an open kitchen with pizza oven then a raised section with more normal modern furniture.It will attract a younger crowd and there is a bewildering choice of keg beers.
The wall taps offer 6 house beers from Shilling,while there are 19 guest beers,sparkling ciders and premixed cocktails.There is a large screen display to help but there is so much choice that this scrolls around so you really have to concentrate.
I went for Shilling George Zest,not too cold but highly carbonated ,I was freely belching after one pint.However there is such a mix of styles and strengths,you may as well pop in and give the keg a go.
On 6th March 2022
- rating: 7
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Quinno _ left this review about Shilling Brewing Company
A lovely Art Deco building (another old bank building) that caught my eye and got added to my crawl list when I spotted it housed a brewpub (Shilling Brew Company). Rather less of that Art Deco inside and really it's a bit of an open-plan barn but is tastefully done nonetheless especially if you get a seat facing the magnificent windows. A plethora of (key)keg beers available and there's a jumbo Untappd board to help you decide. Seating is designed for larger groups and was populated with upmarket (for Glasgow) punters. Thirds came in a copper flight, delivered by a cheerful potboy. Tried a couple of the brewery’s own wares of which were decent, plus beers from Downlands and Wilde Child. Prices are upwardly mobile. If you like something a bit different then this is a fair shout, I enjoyed my hour here – it’s handy as being a late(ish) opener as well.
On 2nd March 2022
- rating: 7
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Real Ale Ray left this review about Shilling Brewing Company
We called in here on a Tuesday eve, so this brewery bar wasn't too busy. This was to our advantage as the young barman could take his time finding us the right beer and handing out a few samples. As Old Boots mentioned below their beers weren't overly gassed, which I prefer and the beers weren't too cold.
31 beers in total to choose from on our visit, so I settled for the Cromarty Happy Clappy and the Team Toxic Campania Neopolitan Ice Cream Milk Stout, which was interesting.
The pizzas were also reasonably priced, so all in all a decent visit.
On 4th November 2021
- rating: 7
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Pub SignMan left this review about Shilling Brewing Company
This is a large, slightly soulless brew-pub in the heart of the city, showcasing beers from the eponymous Shilling Brew Company. The pub occupies an impressive building but its grandeur means that it is like being in a large ‘90’s drinking barn and as such, it is difficult to generate any atmosphere unless it’s packed out. You enter through a somewhat pointless glass porch into a vast, vinyl floored room with an extremely high ceiling. The servery is located all the way over to the left and has a modern counter which includes some weird green, backlit taps, a large beer board surrounded by pump clips at the far end and some of the brewing kit to the left, with more equipment visible through the windows above. High tables and stools run through the centre of the room with banquettes to the rear and a few secluded seating spots in partially screened areas behind. A raised area over to the right sees banquettes and chairs under a rather insane looking unicorn mural, whilst the whole pub has these amazing art nouveau windows running around it. There is a big screen on the back wall showing a load of dull promotional material and various large boards listing more of the same corporate nonsense offer the only real form of décor. Stairs lead down to the toilets and on your way, you pass through some huge strong room-style doors, which suggest this building was probably once a bank (perhaps the brewery name also hints at this?).
There is no cask ale here but an extensive keg range including lots of house beers and plenty of guests means you’re spoilt for choice. Bewildered by the array of options, I asked the friendly barman to help me select a beer, but he didn’t seem particularly confident in doing so and we struggled to find what I was looking for. I eventually settled on a pint of Shilling Transporter which was nice enough but way too cold on a freezing January evening.
This is quite an impressive enterprise with a big selling point in the fact that it brews it beer on site. However, I was a little underwhelmed, with the lack of cask, puzzled staff and large, cold interior all putting me off a bit. Worth a look to give the homebrew a try and to admire the interior, but one visit was sufficient for me.
On 20th March 2018
- rating: 6
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Just a quick pint, then I'm off left this review about Shilling Brewing Company
Brew-pub set up in an imposing former bank building, furnished and decorated in a much more modern style than most such conversions. If you hadn't missed the historical point, there are also the former bank vault doors downstairs by the toilets. More to the point, much of the brew-plant is visible behind the counter, and they make much of the short distance between production and dispense. Four of their own beers are on offer at any one time - Unicorn IPA, The Icarus Project pale ale, Glasgow Red and Black Star Teleporter (all at £4.20) - when I visited. However, there are also up to 27 other craft beers available from the three founts of nine keg taps. Impressive.
On 19th November 2017
- rating: 8
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