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The pub’s story
Fierce Beer’s Rose Street bar is a modern brewery tap rather than an old pub in a brewery building. The Aberdeenshire brewer opened this as its first pub outside Aberdeen in 2019, a date confirmed both by launch coverage and the operator’s current page. It took over a unit with earlier names including 1780, Bad Ass and Peevers, so those are previous operators, not a continuous Fierce history. The current bar centres on twenty rotating taps, packaged beer to take away, guest beers, cocktails and whisky. CAMRA’s updated record adds an important recent development: in April 2025 it began selling cask real ale via a jacket-cooled gravity dispense, alongside real cider. Go for a current Scottish craft-beer range rather than historic interiors, and use the live tap list if a particular beer is the point of your visit.
What to notice
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Use the live tap list before travelling if a particular Fierce or guest beer matters. The range rotates.
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CAMRA says a cask ale has been offered since April 2025, but the venue remains primarily a craft-keg and packaged-beer bar.
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Card payment only is recorded by CAMRA; this is a compact stop rather than a full-service traditional pub.
The time rail
The building, the pub and its interior may date from different periods. The timeline keeps documented dates separate from tradition.
Launch coverage reported Fierce Beer opening its first pub outside Aberdeen on Rose Street.
CAMRA published an exterior record of Fierce Beer at 167 Rose Street.
The operator’s current page dates the Rose Street bar’s craft-beer role to 2019.
CAMRA records that the bar began selling a cask real ale by jacket-cooled gravity dispense.
CAMRA last updated its current Rose Street record, retaining the bar’s previous-name history and current facilities.
The operator currently advertises twenty rotating taps, core and guest beers, take-away cans, cocktails, wine and rare whisky.
Sources & confidence
Fierce Beer’s official Edinburgh page establishes the 2019 opening, twenty-tap contemporary offer and current visitor details. CAMRA corroborates the present venue and cask-beer development. The record treats former site names as background, not a fictional continuity story.
Research reviewed
- Fierce Edinburgh BarFierce Beerofficial
SupportsCurrent 167 Rose Street bar identity, ‘since 2019’ chronology, twenty-tap offer, live tap-list link, take-away cans and official weekly hours.
- Fierce Beer, EdinburghCampaign for Real Alespecialist
SupportsPrevious names, 2019 image record, April 2025 gravity cask development, current cider/cask/facilities information and July 2026 update.
- Aberdeenshire craft brewers Fierce Beer launch exciting new bar in EdinburghThe Scotsman Food and Drinkeditorial
SupportsContemporary 2019 launch coverage identifying the Rose Street pub as Fierce’s first outside Aberdeen.
- Edinburgh and South-East Scotland Pub GuideCampaign for Real Alespecialist
SupportsCurrent local CAMRA directory listing for Fierce Beer in Rose Street.
- List of licensed premisesCity of Edinburgh Councilgovernment
SupportsCouncil licensed-premises cross-check for Fierce Beer.
- The best places for food and drink in Edinburgh, Glasgow, Paisley, Dundee and StirlingSnack Magazineeditorial
SupportsIndependent 2024 guide confirming current Rose Street address and official website.
