text: The Hanging Bat is touted as being one of Edinburghs craft beer havens and one of the goto pubs for craft beer They have an impressive board of continuallychanging beers on cask and keg working with some amazing craft brewers and having a brilliant selection The staff are usually very knowledgeable about all their beers and can tell you a lot about the beers Their beers come in pint servings generally and because they are craft beers of really high quality you will have some delicious beers but pay a bit more than elsewherennI would normally have given the Hanging Bat four stars but my last experience there was disappointing I was out with colleagues on on Friday night and one colleague ordered a beer he had picked at random with a red label that was front and center on the top shelf of one of the fridges behind the bar The server brought it over and opened it and after ringing it up she asked if he had known how much it was It was the ua Tsar Bomba The staff should have been properly trained to know all about their highend beers At the very least the server should have realized that people do not order Buxton Brewerys Tsar Bomba often and that there was a reason for that The server should have warned my colleague ahead of time that this was an unusually expensive beernnIt was a really unfortunate experience and because of what happened and how the Hanging Bat dealt with the situation decreased my perception of it I still love their beers on tap which are clearly priced on the board but know what you are ordering before ordering bottles since you do not know if the staff will alert you if you order something unusually expensive and also one that ended up being a terrible beer