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The Hanging Bat, Edinburgh
Edinburgh
EH3 9AD
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The Bat Taps
Friday list updated https://t.co/ykMt96gPu7
1:31 PM Oct 9th 2020 from Twitter for iPad
Reviews of The Hanging Bat (Average Rating: 6 of 10) see review guidelines
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Bucking Fastard left this review about The Hanging Bat
A trendy bar where the maximum beer dispence is 2/3rds and some craft keg is priced as thirds.It's all very modern inside,a shop converstion with a lower level and a mezzanine all to the right.The left side is the bar and some small tables and a huge blackboard describing the offer.It's a busy place popular with under 30's .
There are 9 craft keg options and Hanging Bat do some brewing on site. The three cask options were Thornbridge Jaipur,Cross Borders Women do it Bitter and a collaberation between Hanging Bat and Simple Things called Special Belge (NBSS 3,not sure what style the brewer was trying to achieve.)
There is a market for this kind of bar,but I'm not the target audience.Better pubs nearby.
On 19th November 2022
- rating: 6
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Steve C left this review about The Hanging Bat
The Hanging Bat is one of those twatty bars that only sells beer in 1/3 and 2/3 measures. During my brief stay both customers who walked in asked for pints and had to be schooled by the barman. What is the point? The bar along the left wall supports six handpumps, five of which were in operation drawing Thornbridge ENA, Wylam Brewery’s Fleek, Squawk Pavo and Solus as well as Cross Borders Heavy. There were also nine craft keg options from the 14 fonts. The serving counter faces split level seating down the right side of this thin bar. The toilets are downstairs, as is more seating on multiple levels, I get the hanging bat reference. This place isn’t on my revisit list.
On 9th September 2022
- rating: 5
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Quinno _ left this review about The Hanging Bat
Trendy bar and eatery with the usual quasi-industrial stylings. Too cool for Point of Sale labels so you have to look at the blackboard for the beer range. 3 of the 6 cask on with brews from Fyne, Top Out and Black Isle. At the bottom was a chalked missive stating that "cask beer is meant to be more flat than keg!". Now I thought surely that's just to deal with idiot customers and then I got my third (no halves or pints here, proles!) of the Yellowhammer which was flat and musty (NBSS 1) so perhaps the problem is with you, not them, eh? I decided that I couldn’t be arsed to quibble over a third as I had plenty of other pubs I wanted to tick, so headed off. It was interesting that in a couple of later pubs, when I got talking to the bar staff and was asked where I’d been and what I thought, this one elicited a general ‘not surprised by that’ reaction.
On 15th November 2021
- rating: 4
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- Accommodation : No last updated 15 November 2021 by Quinno _
- Bar Billiards : No last updated 15 November 2021 by Quinno _
- Beer Festivals : Yes last updated 26 October 2009 by hondo .
- CAMRA Discount : No last updated 15 November 2021 by Quinno _
- Car Park : No last updated 15 November 2021 by Quinno _
- Child Friendly : Yes last updated 15 November 2021 by Quinno _
- Darts : No last updated 15 November 2021 by Quinno _
- Dog Friendly : Yes last updated 15 November 2021 by Quinno _
- Function Room : No last updated 15 November 2021 by Quinno _
- Hot Food : Yes last updated 15 November 2021 by Quinno _
- Jukebox : No last updated 15 November 2021 by Quinno _
- Karaoke : No last updated 15 November 2021 by Quinno _
- Live TV Sports : No last updated 15 November 2021 by Quinno _
- Micropub : No last updated 15 November 2021 by Quinno _
- Pinball : No last updated 15 November 2021 by Quinno _
- Pool Table : No last updated 15 November 2021 by Quinno _
- Real Ale : Yes last updated 15 November 2021 by Quinno _
- Real Cider : Yes last updated 15 November 2021 by Quinno _
- WiFi : Yes last updated 15 November 2021 by Quinno _
