The brewing giants hinted that they were going to open a Capital hotel in February this year and confirmed plans in late March.
The Edinburgh Doghouse will be located on East Market Street, close to Waverley station and will be the second Scottish BrewDog hotel - following on from their Kennels offering in Aberdeen which opened in 2019.
Working on a potential @BrewDog beer hotel location in Edinburgh today.
— James Watt (@BrewDogJames) March 27, 2021
It would be great to open a beer hotel in the capital of our home country.
Watch this space. pic.twitter.com/krjKa8ZJ8x
BrewDog’s first foray into hospitality - and the brewer’s first Doghouse hotel - was opened in Columbus Ohio as part of a substantial development which includes a brewery, tap room bar and large 32 room hotel all set within a 42 acre site.
We can expect similar things within the Edinburgh hotel as seen in Ohio and Aberdeen - such as beer on tap in all rooms, a stocked mini-bar and fridges in the shower for shower beers - as co-founder James Watt confirmed in a Tweet about the venture.
The brewers will move into the former Canongate Hotel, which was placed on the market with Knight Frank for £8million in 2019. The former C-listed Victorian schoolhouse has space for 21 apartment-style hotel rooms as well as a two storey commercial space that can house a bar, restaurant and outdoor terrace.
Neil Scott, a partner at Knight Frank Edinburgh, said of the hotel: “The Canongate is an attractive opportunity for a hotel operator or investor to be part of what is fast-becoming one of the most successful regeneration schemes in the city, and even perhaps Scotland.”
Announcing the @BrewDog DogHouse Edinburgh.
— James Watt (@BrewDogJames) April 11, 2021
An amazing beer hotel & bar in the heart of Scotland's capital.
Expect beer on tap in all the rooms, mini-bars filled with the best beers in the planet & fridges in the shower for shower beers.
Opens Q3 2021. pic.twitter.com/uYXoh09khi
The BrewDog Kennels in Aberdeen were opened as the team wanted to offer customers a memorable hotel experience that combines their love of craft beer. Located above the Castlegate bar, all of the rooms are dog friendly and include a beer fridge in the bathroom so that guests can enjoy beers in the shower.
Speaking at the time of opening the Aberdeen BrewDog hotel, James Watt said: "Our BrewDog Kennels are a revolution in accommodation, sparked by too much time spent in immediately forgettable hotel rooms.
“We firmly believe that where you stay in a new city should be your home from home, so have brought the spirit of our DogHouse Hotel and its reverence for great beer to a new series of mini-hotels.
“And what better start for the BrewDog Kennels than our home city? Aberdeen is an incredible place for craft beer so we have upped the ante with our own take on accommodation.
"To paraphrase the song; you can check out but you may never want to leave.”
The hotel is due to open on 6 December with 20 rooms, priced from £145.
Speaking of the new hotel, a BrewDog spokesperson said: "We are hugely excited about launching ‘BrewDog DogHouse - Edinburgh’, our third experiential hotel inspired by our award winning DogHouse Columbus concept, the world's first craft beer hotel.
"It's very different to our Kennels which is a managed apartment concept with a very limited number of rooms, so not an appropriate name for our new hotel.
"DogHouse Edinburgh is a full blown craft beer hotel complete with shower beers, room draft beer taps and complementary dog packages, not a bar.
"We recently enjoyed sharing some beers with The Dog House team who are a brilliant part of the ever growing Edinburgh music and nightlife scene.”
DogHouse Edinburgh also features two bars, each pouring from 30 taps of beer, and for those looking to relax after a long journey or a day in the city. There is also an additional outdoor terrace bar featuring fire pits in an urban oasis.
Both bars are fully open to the public and will be unveiled for the first time on Friday 3 December 2021, with the BrewDog DogHouse hotel officially opening for beer-loving guests the following Monday, 6 December.
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