Next, we stop for a pint a Deacon Brodie's Tavern, another haunted spot.  It is named after William Brodie, one of the inspirations for Robert Louis Stevenson's Jekyll and Hyde.  Brodie was born in 1741, and was by day a respectable citizen, a deacon of the Guild of Wrights and Masons, and a member of the town council.  By night, however, Brodie consorted with lowlife, gambling and drinking.  To pay the gambling debts accrued by his dark side, he took up to burglary, and was ultimately hanged in 1788 (on gallows that he helped design and build). 

The tavern is tied to the Nicholson chain of pubs, but serves mostly locally brewed beers (Edinburgh has several well-respected breweries).  We befriend two very friendly and very drunk Englishmen here, and have to pry ourselves out to get away from them.