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The pub’s story
Campervan Brewery separates a 2014 company incorporation from its own account of opening the brewery in Leith in 2017. Its story begins with a garage, a 1973 VW Campervan called Olive and transient brews before the Leith operation; that is the operator’s founding narrative. The public-facing site has continued to change: CAMRA records the taproom reopening in June 2024 after expansion into the neighbouring unit, so older views of a smaller arrangement are not the whole current venue. Today the industrial Jane Street taproom and beer garden pour the brewery’s core, limited and exclusive beers alongside wine, spirits, soft drinks and rotating local food vendors. CAMRA also records Nomad Pale being served by gravity from cask from January 2025. It is a young production-site taproom whose real interest is visible growth, current brewing and flexible food partnerships. Not invented industrial antiquity.
What to notice
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The taproom expanded in 2024, so older photographs can understate the present size and layout.
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The food offer is based on rotating local vendors and pop-ups rather than a fixed in-house kitchen.
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The operator describes the site as child- and dog-friendly; events and food-vendor details should be checked close to your visit.
The time rail
The building, the pub and its interior may date from different periods. The timeline keeps documented dates separate from tradition.
The Campervan Brewery company was incorporated; this is a company date, not the claimed Leith brewery-opening date.
The operator says Campervan Brewery opened in Leith after garage and mobile brewing experiments.
CAMRA records the taproom reopening after expansion into the neighbouring unit.
CAMRA records Nomad Pale being served by gravity from cask.
CAMRA updated its current taproom record.
The operator publishes current taproom, beer-garden, food-vendor and opening-hour information.
Sources & confidence
The operator supplies the 2017 founding account and current taproom offer. CAMRA independently documents the June 2024 expansion and reopening, January 2025 cask service and July 2026 update. The profile therefore treats pre-expansion frontage material as historic rather than current.
Research reviewed
- The Campervan Brewery LtdCompanies Housegovernment
SupportsThe 3 October 2014 incorporation, active status, Jane Street registered address and beer/public-house SIC codes.
- Our StoryCampervan Breweryofficial
SupportsThe operator’s founding narrative, 2017 Leith opening claim and subsequent brewery/taproom expansion.
- TaproomCampervan Breweryofficial
SupportsCurrent taproom and beer-garden identity, beer range, food-vendor model, address and weekly opening hours.
- Campervan Brewery Tap Shop, EdinburghCAMRAspecialist
SupportsThe June 2024 expansion/reopening, January 2025 cask service and current independent pub record.
- Campervan Brewery official linksCampervan Breweryofficial
SupportsThe operator’s public account identifying the brewery as established in Leith in 2017 and linking current visitor channels.
