Teuchters, Edinburgh

Comic Sans typeface exterior sign made me wonder. Multi-area interior with arches and dividing pillars. An overall attempt at country-pub-in-the-city ambience; whitewashed stone walls with some varnished tongue and groove wood panelling at the rear, wood beams etc. Dimly lit, candles on all tables. Five pumps; Fyne Jarl, TT Landlord, Deuchars IPA, Knops East Coast Pale and Swannay Dark Munro. Both halves I got were far too warm, with the Swannay tasting like it was on the turn. At £4.05 I expected much better from a supposed freehouse. Beer and whiskey flights offered but the only flight I was making was out the door and off down the road. Even more surprising is that this place is in the Good Beer Guide for 2016.

I was quite disappointed with this after enjoying my visit to Bert's across the road. The interior has been stripped back to bare stone and then made to look like a country pub, possibly in Glen Coe, and this fundamental dishonesty must have nagged at me so that I never quite felt comfortable here. Or perhaps it was being charged £4.50 for two halves that did it - and it wasn't even my round! The beer was fine, once I'd managed to persuade them to pour 10 rather than eight fluid ounces of Highland Munro Mild into my glass. There were four other beers available, but I was too grumpy by this time to make a note of them. The best thing about my visit was seeing the Williams Brothers delivery van outside when I was taking my photo - but none of their beers were on the bar, only bottles in the cooler. Wish I'd stayed in Bert's.

Quite a dark interior with 5 real ales served. Double it up with Bert's bar across the road.