Pilot
@pilotbeer.co.uk
Brewery and twitter account. Leith, laugh, love. It’s probably just a joke.
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@pilotbeer.co.uk
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Not being funny like but if you haven't been to Vessel yet what are you doing with your life?
Just ban us all from social media so we can draw a line under it and move on with our lives.
January 12, 2026 at 4:40 PM
Just ban us all from social media so we can draw a line under it and move on with our lives.
For some reason an estate agent was put in charge of selling the kit and at the start of the negotiation he went "I don't know anything about this sort of thing lads, what do you think it's worth?" and that is the one and only time in the history of Pilot that we won at business.
Here’s something interesting that isn’t even about Twitter for once. We bagged our brewkit from Fountainbridge nearly 15 years ago, and now we’ve brewed a Scotch Export using a historic yeast strain from, wink wink nudge nudge, another Fountainbridge brewery.
pilotbeer.co.uk/collections/...
pilotbeer.co.uk/collections/...
January 10, 2026 at 5:07 PM
For some reason an estate agent was put in charge of selling the kit and at the start of the negotiation he went "I don't know anything about this sort of thing lads, what do you think it's worth?" and that is the one and only time in the history of Pilot that we won at business.
Here’s something interesting that isn’t even about Twitter for once. We bagged our brewkit from Fountainbridge nearly 15 years ago, and now we’ve brewed a Scotch Export using a historic yeast strain from, wink wink nudge nudge, another Fountainbridge brewery.
pilotbeer.co.uk/collections/...
pilotbeer.co.uk/collections/...
January 10, 2026 at 8:47 AM
Here’s something interesting that isn’t even about Twitter for once. We bagged our brewkit from Fountainbridge nearly 15 years ago, and now we’ve brewed a Scotch Export using a historic yeast strain from, wink wink nudge nudge, another Fountainbridge brewery.
pilotbeer.co.uk/collections/...
pilotbeer.co.uk/collections/...
To explain this with a brewing analogy, it’s like if Tim Davie was in a brewery and the brewery was full of nothing but nazis and sex offenders and yet he decided to stay in the brewery to try to get the nazis and sex offenders to watch Countryfile for some reason.
January 8, 2026 at 4:53 PM
To explain this with a brewing analogy, it’s like if Tim Davie was in a brewery and the brewery was full of nothing but nazis and sex offenders and yet he decided to stay in the brewery to try to get the nazis and sex offenders to watch Countryfile for some reason.
On the plus side the other day someone in our office was talking about buying something and instead of "pull the trigger on it" he said "pull the triggle on it" and we've said very little else but that for 36 hours so maybe the world's not all bad.
Just seen Ricky Gervais posting one of his extremely funny vodka adverts along with a crying laughing emoji. 7 days into a new year and we've had world war 3 starting and now this new low. Really starting to feel like there's no way back for humanity.
What's led to this outburst, you may ask. Well, we did our semi-regular log in to LinkedIn and saw someone leaving crying laughing emojis under one of James Watt's posts. Sickening stuff. We're meant ot be out for a meal tonight but currently feel to ill to eat.
January 7, 2026 at 10:28 AM
On the plus side the other day someone in our office was talking about buying something and instead of "pull the trigger on it" he said "pull the triggle on it" and we've said very little else but that for 36 hours so maybe the world's not all bad.
Just seen Ricky Gervais posting one of his extremely funny vodka adverts along with a crying laughing emoji. 7 days into a new year and we've had world war 3 starting and now this new low. Really starting to feel like there's no way back for humanity.
What's led to this outburst, you may ask. Well, we did our semi-regular log in to LinkedIn and saw someone leaving crying laughing emojis under one of James Watt's posts. Sickening stuff. We're meant ot be out for a meal tonight but currently feel to ill to eat.
January 7, 2026 at 9:46 AM
Just seen Ricky Gervais posting one of his extremely funny vodka adverts along with a crying laughing emoji. 7 days into a new year and we've had world war 3 starting and now this new low. Really starting to feel like there's no way back for humanity.
Wish Trump would annex this stupid brewery.
January 5, 2026 at 1:33 PM
Wish Trump would annex this stupid brewery.
Delighted to announce we’re the Official Beer Partner of The One Joke About The FIFA Peace Prize™
January 3, 2026 at 10:53 AM
Delighted to announce we’re the Official Beer Partner of The One Joke About The FIFA Peace Prize™
In better news though, 2026 really feels like the year craft beer is going to break through to the mainstream!
January 2, 2026 at 8:49 AM
In better news though, 2026 really feels like the year craft beer is going to break through to the mainstream!
Good news everyone, the fascist sociopath has added a sexual assault generator to his website! At this point it’s fair to assume that any brewery / football team / MP / rando still using it actively supports these things.
Quoting ourselves here, but it’s absolutely insane to us that anyone still uses Twitter. You don't have to. You can just stop. It was a *massive* part of our growth but you can just let it go. However important your business is to you, it's less important than this:
Elon Musk, "These lovely small towns in England, Scotland and Ireland, they've been living their lives quietly. They're like hobbits"
"And so one day, 1,000 people show up in your village of 500 and start raping the kids"
"This has now happened, God knows how many times in Britain"
"And so one day, 1,000 people show up in your village of 500 and start raping the kids"
"This has now happened, God knows how many times in Britain"
January 2, 2026 at 8:48 AM
Good news everyone, the fascist sociopath has added a sexual assault generator to his website! At this point it’s fair to assume that any brewery / football team / MP / rando still using it actively supports these things.
Aye, go on then, merry Christmas and suchlike.
December 24, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Aye, go on then, merry Christmas and suchlike.
HAPPY FESTIVE PERIOD FELLOW WOKES
December 19, 2025 at 4:41 PM
HAPPY FESTIVE PERIOD FELLOW WOKES
Not being funny like but if you haven't been to Vessel yet what are you doing with your life?
December 18, 2025 at 10:33 AM
Not being funny like but if you haven't been to Vessel yet what are you doing with your life?
Delighted to announce we’re the Official Beer Supplier™ of the Glasgow Celtic Christmas party
December 17, 2025 at 10:06 PM
Delighted to announce we’re the Official Beer Supplier™ of the Glasgow Celtic Christmas party
Galling that while even set against a horrendous economic backdrop this has been the brewery's best year on record and yet we still can't be happy because every so often we remember Wes Streeting's face.
December 17, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Galling that while even set against a horrendous economic backdrop this has been the brewery's best year on record and yet we still can't be happy because every so often we remember Wes Streeting's face.
Good news everyone, our LinkedIn Year In Review is in! Tbh it’s mostly just all the times we left crying laughing emojis under one of James Watt’s great bits of banter.
December 17, 2025 at 11:25 AM
Good news everyone, our LinkedIn Year In Review is in! Tbh it’s mostly just all the times we left crying laughing emojis under one of James Watt’s great bits of banter.
Just for info by the way, the new Fort Bar in Leith is absolutely not a 3-way brewery collab, we're all just supplying them beer. The folk who do run it are lovely and you should definitely go, but it's very much not us.
We should probably add at this point that it's definitely not a collab between us all running the place - we've all just put lines in there!
December 17, 2025 at 10:41 AM
Just for info by the way, the new Fort Bar in Leith is absolutely not a 3-way brewery collab, we're all just supplying them beer. The folk who do run it are lovely and you should definitely go, but it's very much not us.
If any macro brewers want to come and buy us we will happily lose you 2.7 million quid.
From Propel: Beavertown's losses grew in the year to 31 December 2024. A pre-tax loss of £831,546 in 2023 widened to £2,728,853, as administrative expenses rose by more than £800,000. Turnover was £104,623,877.
(Beavertown is owned by Heineken)
(Beavertown is owned by Heineken)
December 16, 2025 at 11:49 AM
If any macro brewers want to come and buy us we will happily lose you 2.7 million quid.
Reposted by Pilot
December 15, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Reposted by Pilot
This week our malt supplier told us malt will be cheaper next year because of Ozempic and it really felt like the point where we realised we don’t understand anything anymore.
December 13, 2025 at 9:55 AM
This week our malt supplier told us malt will be cheaper next year because of Ozempic and it really felt like the point where we realised we don’t understand anything anymore.
This week our malt supplier told us malt will be cheaper next year because of Ozempic and it really felt like the point where we realised we don’t understand anything anymore.
December 13, 2025 at 9:55 AM
This week our malt supplier told us malt will be cheaper next year because of Ozempic and it really felt like the point where we realised we don’t understand anything anymore.
Just had had Hue & Cry mistakenly wander into the brewery trying to buy a forklift truck. Think they were looking for Linde.
December 12, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Just had had Hue & Cry mistakenly wander into the brewery trying to buy a forklift truck. Think they were looking for Linde.
Tell you what, sales are absolutely flying so far this month. On the assumption that this upwards trend will continue on into January and February we’ve just ordered a fleet of Bentleys.
December 11, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Tell you what, sales are absolutely flying so far this month. On the assumption that this upwards trend will continue on into January and February we’ve just ordered a fleet of Bentleys.
Delighted to announce we're the Official Beer Partner™ of the 2026 FIFA World Cup
December 11, 2025 at 10:24 AM
Delighted to announce we're the Official Beer Partner™ of the 2026 FIFA World Cup