retiredmartin

July 2025. Glasgow.

With what would qualify as a decent public transport network anywhere outside London, I’d get good value from my £7.70 Glasgow Roundabout ticket.

I left the Doublet just before 5, but with a bag to dump out west in a Clydebank “hotel”, and a pub to tick in Southside before my gig in east Glasgow, it was still a mad scramble to make the Koelschip Yard and back to central. Not surprisingly, I completely forgot to eat.

Depending on your preference, the Koelschip is in Pollokshields, Strathbungo, Queen’s Park and is best described as “near Hampden Park“.

This is the best of the street art.

Koelschip has yo-yo’d in out of the GBG since I last ticked Scotland,

and has a reputation as a serious beer bar, a Port Street Beer House or Crow sort of place.

Cosy and quirky, and sensibly just the one handpump.

More Untappd check-ins here than in the rest of Southside put together (read on),

most of them cans of Slushy. Blackpool Jane would love it.

Now, I don’t come to Glasgow to drink Thornbridge, but I thought I’d have to try it so I could praise/bury Scottish cask.

“Shall I set you up a wee tab ?” asks the lovely barman. It’s that sort of place.

Pretty good, considering the hear; a soft, floral NBSS 3+. And I definitely got the best of the seating.

I might pop back, when the 115 charges see City relegated to the Scottish Lowland League and I get an excuse to visit Albion Rovers.

But…where have all the Southside GBG (or even cask) pubs gone ?

Koelschip, a Spoons in Rutherglen, a Chew & Brewer in Busby. Clockwork out of the Guide. What happens when the chains ditch cask ?