#Finding dory free bottle cap full

There are also a few careless touches like leaving an old palette with barley sacks constantly lying around, and the DJ booth (which is open side-on to the main floor) usually full of old boxes and rubbish. The on-site brewery looks like a makeshift office from a warehouse, and given the constant empty spaces on the blackboard outnumbering the full ones they obviously can't keep their lines stocked. The 'rustic' wood the bar top is made of has swelled in the middle and is no longer flat, and has never been fixed. Instead of rustic exposed bricks, they have brick wallpaper. Unlike the other bars, it's apparent when you step through the door that this as been done up on a budget. So, where does this leave Bottlecap? GOOD QUESTION! The Moorings - Technically not a 'craft beer' pub but with 42 draught lines including world beers, cask ale and belgian/fruit beers not to be ignored! Also one of the best music venues in Aberdeen. Want a Fine Cigar to accompany your schooner of Paulaner Salvawith a Blacnoch 1991 chaser, then wash it all down with a freshly ground locally sourced syphon coffee? This is the place you can do it.īrewdog - the venue which started the bar division of Scotland's most successful craft beer producer The only advantage of drinking here is you are virtually guaranteed to get a seat because anyone with more sense than money has chosen to drink elsewhere.Īberdeen has 4 excellent craft beer bars, they are all well funded, well furbished, well stocked and all have their own niche and own it!Ħ Degrees North - 'The Belgian Brewers of Scotland' who opened their own bar in Aberdeen and have a phenomenal bottle and rotating tap selection of imported European beers, concentrating on German/Belgian styles.ĬASC - 'Coffee Ale Scotch Cigars', there is an abundance of choice for all 4.

I kept coming back to Bottlecap once every few months in the hope that the teething problems of the new business had been sorted but I fear last week was probably my last visit. Unfortunately I don't have a photo of said cocktail but it must have been no more than 75ml of liquid, served in a tiny glass with no ice. The shocking service and ludicrously priced 'cocktail' that was served to one of my colleagues for her leaving drinks last week is the sole reason I have joined tripadvisor, to leave this review. I've been in before where after a 20 minute wait, we have had to remind the barman to make our cocktails as he continued to serve others after taking our order. On the contrary, the service is woefully slow with only one or two bar staff often manning the bar, even at peak times. For that price you would expect a unique selling point that warrants paying that premium with such good competition in close proximity. Yet with even Bottlecap's own stuff selling at a minimum of £3.40 for 2/3rds, that's a minimum price of £5.10 a pint. However, next door at 6 degrees north, you can get 2/3rds of a pint for £2.55 and Brewdog at the top of the street do pints for £4. The price of the drinks is a particular issue but I appreciate that there is a premium to be paid for craft and foreign beers.

I've been to Bottlecap with friends maybe half a dozen times since it opened in 2014 and have to say I have left disappointed on each and every occasion.