“It’s fluctuating, and it’s been hard the last couple of years,” says Vinny Rosario, founder of Moonwake Beer Co. in Leith.<\/p>\n
He is part of one of the roughly 150 small, independent breweries in Scotland.<\/p>\n
They’re all included in new rules that can see independent breweries have their products sold at “tenant pubs”, those owned by breweries but run by external people.<\/p>\n
So how are the “guest beer” rules working for breweries like his? <\/p>\n
Since July 2025 when they were introduced, it has been a mixed bag.<\/p>\n
“There are a lot of breweries in Scotland, but there are also a lot of beer drinkers,” says Vinny.<\/p>\n
“On an average week, we make 7,000 to 10,000 litres of beer.”<\/p>\n
He believes there is a place for the smaller players, but admits it is hard to compete with the biggest brands.<\/p>\n
“They have more market access; they own pubs or lines.”<\/p>\n
For Vinny, the new rules haven’t made too much difference.<\/p>\n
“There was a lot of hope and hype, but pubs can be disincentivised by their landlords.<\/p>\n
“There’s a lot of red tape, so they don’t want any more added to their bottom line,” he says.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"“It’s fluctuating, and it’s been hard the last couple of years,” says Vinny Rosario, founder of Moonwake Beer…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":659710,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[748,393,4884,12,1144,712,16,15,1764],"class_list":{"0":"post-659709","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-northern-ireland","13":"tag-scotland","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom","16":"tag-wales"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115797189146147016","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659709","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=659709"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659709\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/659710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=659709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=659709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=659709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}