July 2025. Edinburgh.
I had six GBG pubs to visit on my first visit to the capital since, oh, 2021, which became five as I realised the Old Eastway had been my pre-emptive punt back then.
But I also looked at that Ryrie’s outside Haymarket Station, looking all heritage and wonderful,
and thought “I must have been there“, remembering a grand old pub by the station called The Haymarket I visited with Curry Charles.
But that’s not Ryrie’s. This is;
and what a pub it is, gloriously grand and cosy.
Jarl, Campervan, and something with a “T”.
I love those brass things on the bar. They’re Victorian telephones, you know.
This is the pub where Alan Longmuir used to drink,
while coming up with the fashions that would propel the Bay City Rollers to world superstardom on the back of the best single ever released by a Scot (well, after “Easy, Easy“).
Look at those lacings !
Actually, the Jarl was that good, a cool crisp NBSS 3.5. But the best sellers were, as always, Guinness and San Miguel.
What a pub.
retiredmartin 
Good to see this pub still going strong – before retiring I used to visit our Scottish clients annually, one of which was just down the road opposite quite a reasonable hotel.
[IPW]
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“What a pub” indeed. One of my ever expanding Top Ten.
I was distracted from the lacings by the hair styles in the BCR photo above. Good grief!
Yes, glorious lacings.
Presumably Stewart Brewing don’t put their own beers on in Ryrie’s because they know, deep down, that they’re not very good. Can’t go wrong with Jarl (pronounced yar-rul) though.
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You might be right, Will, but when I was campervanning around the east coast of Scotland in 2021/22 Stewart was always a reliable (and ever present) face on the bar.
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Yes, I’ve never had a bad pint of Jarl.
Almost any reason’s good enough to steer clear of Carrulsberg though.
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I’ve never had a bad pint of Jarl, but I’ve had a fair few (including in Glasgow’s Laurieston) which weren’t cool and crisp enough. The pub’s fault, not Fyne.
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Yes, I don’t doubt, but I’ve not been fortunate enough to have a great many pints of it yet.
Incidentally, you missed a bit of sport by not using “re” instead of “of” in your heading, Martin
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Ryrie’s is owned by D M Stewart, nothing to do with Stewart Brewing.
https://www.dmstewart.com/
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Well that explains it, anonymous
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