BrewDog launches £4m crowdfunding bid
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotlan...iness-22984836
BrewDog launches £4m crowdfunding bid
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotlan...iness-22984836
"brewing in the UK is aiming to open a bar in"
http://www.sheffieldtelegraph.co.uk/...punk-1-5789574
Last edited by hondo; 21-06-2013 at 13:02.
"Do I know where hell is? hell is in hello"
Just as a matter of interest BrewDog have quite a bit of their beer contract brewed at.........wait for it.... Thwaites!!!!
Very punk.
A pub is for life not just for Christmas
I really don't understand the Brewdog business model. Why not Britpop or Rave beer?
The Punk label represents rebellion, but the short lived Punk music movement was over 35 years ago which to me puts it squarely in the "Dad Rock" arena.
While I think that there Hardcore IPA bottles (maybe brewed by Thwaites?) in the guise of Tesco Finest American IPA is an absolutely superb bottled beer, Wild Horses wouldn't tempt me into one of their bars.
So the big question is what happens when the bright young things that currently go to their bars grow up and realise that a night in the local Spoons or watching Countryfile with a stack of Banks's bitter from Tesco is a much cheaper option.
As I noted in the Oakwell Brewery thread, the history of microbreweries is littered with examples of ones that have have placed too much emphasis on buying up pubs rather than concentrating on the brewery. In the case of Oakwell I suggested that they had made a poor choice of pubs to buy (I'm sure the Jockey from Shameless was in there somewhere), along with leaving their beer range in a timewarp (a mild, a cooking bitter and a "Best" bitter).
In the case of Brewdog what happens then they are no longer "Too Cool For School"?
I'm alarmed (although not entirely surprised) that they are already using Thwaites for contract brewing. I suspect that the long term aim of the Brewdog owners may be to sell out and walk off into the sunset with a stash of cash.
"I think it was Woody Allen who described a stockbroker as “a man who invests your money until it is all gone”". http://allgatesbrewery.com/allgates-...ots/#more-7103
"Do I know where hell is? hell is in hello"