Jack - I thought Sandy Bells did do ale....I had a nice pint or two or three in there when I was last in Edinburgh....? perhaps I am remembering wrongly through the ether?

You remembered right and I remembered wrong. They have three handpumps. Last Sunday one had Timothy Taylor's Landlord and the others had things I'd never heard of.

They seem to avoid the ones with silly names. If they'd had labels like Black Willydrooper and Ferret Foetus, I'd have noticed.

And I also found out last Sunday that they have Murphy's back (it was away for several years).