The Best Beer Bars in Glasgow

The shelves behind the bar run floor to ceiling with whisky, row after row, and the staff are used to fetching bottles down when your dram is out of arm's reach. The Pot Still is an old-school Glaswegian whisky bar, one room, Victorian cornicing, original dark varnished wood, and a raised rear gallery that the regulars treat as prime real estate. The baby-pink ceiling is a surprise nobody seems to argue with.

Stacked slate, bare stone, and wood salvaged from the Highlands line the walls of this resolutely old-school beer and whisky bar on the Finnieston strip. No cocktails, no fuss: it's what Glasgow calls a half 'n' half pub, which means you order a pint and a dram and mind your own business. The Highland interior is genuinely surprising behind an exterior that looks like it has never once considered reinventing itself.