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Straightforward basic pub in the town square.
Country hotel popular for weddings, serving one changing ale. Nice walk along the Dee riverside and close to Templar Park scouts campsite.
A busy traditional bar promoted as a whisky bar, being busy during whisky festivals and Aberlour Games weekend. It has the only full collection of Glenfarclas whisky in the world and also more than 100 other malts. Serves one beer from Cairngorm and sometimes WooHa but only one in winter.
Bar, cafe and restaurant beside Rosehearty Golf Club, snacks available.
Basic bar with outdoor trestle tables.
Formerly known as Filthy McNastys, this pub has intermittently flirted with real-ale, but not selling at the moment. Two dart boards and supports two darts teams. Festooned with TV screens, it is very popular with the sporting crowd - impossible not to see the telly!
In the centre of Oldmeldrum, this hotel and Indian restaurant also has a public with with cold beer and pool.
Upmarket country hotel and golf course with the "Cave Bar" in the former larder.
Small public bar furnished in a modern style overlooking Loch Harray. Very popular with fishermen. Hotel residents lounge changes over to a games room in winter.
Beside Aberdeen college, this is a rather run down and dark establishment for TV sport and lager.
Small, family run hotel overlooking Highland Games ground at the edge of this historic village. Four ever changing ales served, sometimes just three in winter (in pins). Cairngorm and Swannay are amongst suppliers.
Described as 'The country pub in the heart of Forres', this smart, extremely popular Scottish lounge bar/restaurant is situated next to the Mosset burn and pond, with swans and ducks.
Loud and brash darts and pool pub near a busy junction.
On 26/10/20, the local paper reported that plans submitted to turn former the pub into a hot food takeaway.
Small hotel in remote location, has a friendly bar decorated with brass measuring jugs, and separate lounge with large wood-burning stove. A separate restaurant. The pool and darts area is partially divided off from the public bar and there is a beer garden to the rear.
Bar in the Aberdeen Music Hall, with some craft beer offerings.
Rural pub, restaurant and hotel with occasional real ale.
Lounge bar with food and darts.
The New Inn Hotel is an independent family run hotel in a historic old coaching inn built in 1704. Overlooking the River Ythan in Ellon, the Inn was previously a changeover point for horses pulling coaches between Aberdeen and Peterhead.
The New Moon (formerly Hunters Moon) is recently reopened after refurbishment.
Situated on the southern outskirts of Newburgh, the inn features a separate bar and restaurant connected by a corridor. The single nationally sourced ale is on sale in both bars. Also features a small but rather good craft beer bottle selection. Formerly the Ythan Hotel and known as Briggies.
Clubhouse at Newmacher Hawkshill an d Swailend courses.
Hotel, with upmarket restaurant and bar.
Traditional village local with a classic dark-wood panelled public bar to the front featuring bar counters from the 1950s with intriguing under counter shelves to accommodate your drinks. Also featured is an original Wm. Black's Devanha brewery mirror by J. Stewart & Co, Glasgow.
The Noose and Monkey is medium sized lounge bar which is frequented by theatre-goers (His Majesty's Theatre is nearby) and is equally popular with locals. Bar gets its name from a Hartlepool connection and French shipwreck.
Tucked away down a back lane between houses in the village centre, this small pub was converted from a pair of cottages. The wood-panelled bar room is heated by a large log fire.
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