We visit Inn Deep ahead of the Glasgow Bar Awards 2025

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We visit the West End’s Inn Deep ahead of the Glasgow Bar Awards on Monday 17 February.

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00:00So my name's Sandy Macmillan and I am one of the owners of In Deep Bar.

00:02We have been a bar for the last 13 years now.

00:06We started out as a craft beer bar.

00:08We're quite proud of being the only bar in Glasgow on the riverside,

00:11which is the River Kelvin, which is just to my left.

00:13It's quite a diverse community.

00:14Obviously over the years you've seen a big change.

00:17There's dog walkers, we've got students.

00:19I mean there's a lot of students, we're right beside the university, so

00:22every year you've got a different type of student coming down.

00:24There's so much diversity.

00:26It's just quite good fun.

00:27We've got Guinness, we've got Blue Moons, we've got some mainstream beers as well.

00:30Most of the time we try and find independent brewers,

00:33either being Scottish, Australian, English, we've got a wide variety.

00:38At any one time we could have 19 guest apps on, so

00:41quite a lot of different things.

00:42You've got to have stouts, you've got to have IPAs.

00:44Sour beer's really taken off recently.

00:47So we've got Vault City, a company from Edinburgh,

00:49they've got some pretty nice sours.

00:51We've got a bubblegum one on the now, and

00:52one that we got to make ourselves as well, which is a plum one.

00:55So when we first opened, craft beer wasn't a very sort of,

00:59it definitely wasn't a popular thing, and it was to the masses.

01:03And now you will have people that maybe,

01:06case in point, I had a mate that used to just drink Corona.

01:08Used to say, craft beer's the worst thing he's ever had.

01:11Well now, ask me about the new milkshake IPA we've got in, or

01:14the next sort of banana flavored stout.

01:15So you see people's tastes have differed wildly from the last 12, 13 years.

01:21So it's quite interesting to watch people sort of starting out, and

01:23they'll get like an entry level, or they'll try an IPA for the first time.

01:27And then now they're more interested in a hazy IPA, or a double IPA,

01:30which is obviously stronger, more hoppy.

01:32So you definitely do see development in people returning customers.

01:36And it's quite fun serving them, because you can sort of see into a little

01:41bit of someone as well, and what their tastes are, so it's quite nice.

01:43My personal tastes have changed over the years.

01:46When we first opened here,

01:47I was actually a cider drinker that told white lies about drinking beer.

01:51Gave my favorites off midway on the board.

01:54Whereas now, I quite like a variety of stouts, or drink an IPA.

01:59So I quite like a hazy IPA as well.

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