Brewdog eyes up Edinburgh as site for first ‘American-style’ airport bar
Craft beer giant Brewdog is opening its first airport bar, with Edinburgh set to be the company’s chosen destination.
Plans show a schedule for new bars opening in 2018, with one at Edinburgh Airport expected to launch in August.
The award-winning company, founded by Martin Dickie and James Watt, is already due to open a bigger Edinburgh branch on the city’s Lothian Road this Friday.
Brewdog hopes to serve up an alternative to the traditional airport drinking experience and is planning to deliver a flavour of the craft beer encounter which is available to travellers in American airports.
The company says the proposed Edinburgh Airport bar is still at the “concept” stage.
However, senior figures at the Aberdeenshire firm have confirmed their intention to branch out into airports, stating that one location had been agreed along with the possibility of a second.
A blog post on the Brewdog website said: “Our bars team are a travel-hardened bunch, used to life on the road looking for new sites or checking up on existing ones.
“Airports are a second home to them, as they are for many of you guys.
“For years we have wondered why airport bars can’t be done better – we’ve all passed through them on the way to our gate and been greeted with old beer, strange carpets and stale atmospheres. So in 2018 we are going to do something about it.
“We have our first airport location agreed and ready to get to work at, with a second in the pipeline too. We hope more will follow after that.”
Brewdog refused to confirm whether Edinburgh was the agreed location for its first airport bar.
A Brewdog spokeswoman said: “It [Edinburgh Airport] has been included in some internal plans which made their way into the public domain, but purely as a concept.
“These are very much just plans, and in this instance, it’s not a formal, scheduled project.”
Edinburgh Airport declined to comment.