Brewdog brewery release Brixton Porter ale - Brixton bar to follow?

[editor]

Announced as being "originally intended as a beer to mark the opening of [their] Brixton bar" Brewdog (the - guffaw - "punk" brewery) have released a 5% Brixton Porter Ale.

More here: http://www.brixtonbuzz.com/2013/12/...le-amid-speculation-of-a-brewdog-brixton-bar/

Background to Brewdog's dodgy marketing here: http://www.urban75.net/forums/threa...sing-rebel-language-to-sell-its-stuff.310336/

 

[killer b]

they do make good beer, but the bars are hideous. i visited the one in manchester when it opened and had to be physically restrained from burning it to the ground as we left.

 

[editor]

"Beer for punks" my fucking arse. Yeah. Well rock'n'roll.

And not sexist at all. No sir.

 

[DrRingDing]

They look like a pair of obnoxious public school boys.

 

[Nanker Phelge]

Hobo pop?

 

[beesonthewhatnow]

they do make good beer, but the bars are hideous. i visited the one in manchester when it opened and had to be physically restrained from burning it to the ground as we left.

We've got one in Brum now, generally consensus seems to be "great beer, fucking expensive".

 

[killer b]

Hobo pop?

it seems a bit weak for a 'tramp juice' pun name tbh.

 

[Belushi]

Whats the bet they ban real Brixton punks from the bar?

 

[killer b]

We've got one in Brum now, generally consensus seems to be "great beer, fucking expensive".

All that new 'craft' keg stuff is really expensive. I assume it's a marketing thing to make it more aspirational, cause I don't think much additional craft or ingredients tend to go into the mix. They also tend to be really fucking strong - presumably to justify the price...

 

[beesonthewhatnow]

All that new 'craft' keg stuff is really expensive. I assume it's a marketing thing to make it more aspirational, cause I don't think much additional craft or ingredients tend to go into the mix. They also tend to be really fucking strong - presumably to justify the price...

I file "craft" in the same bullshit bin as I do "vintage".

 

[Zapp Brannigan]

The beer's great, the image, marketing and the bars are fucking dreadful. The one in Brum is so painfully full of hipsters you half expect the booths to be taken over by pop-up marketing consultancies on an hourly basis.

 

[killer b]

I file "craft" in the same bullshit bin as I do "vintage".

you might do that. however, the liverpool craft beer expo i went to at the start of the summer was insanely good. there's some really nice beers to be had, if you can swallow the expense. i got around the cost by going for the trade session.

 

[Dexter Deadwood]

The thing is i have only just started drink Porter, it is a nice sup.

 

[beesonthewhatnow]

you might do that. however, the liverpool craft beer expo i went to at the start of the summer was insanely good. there's some really nice beers to be had, if you can swallow the expense. i got around the cost by going for the trade session.

But that's what Camra have been doing for years, without the massive expense.

 

[killer b]

But that's what Camra have been doing for years, without the massive expense.

Dude, i've been a card carrying member of camra for 15 years. You really don't need to tell me what they've been doing - and no, they haven't. The pubs frequented by camra bores tend - IME - to have a wide range of dull micro brewery crap that i have no interest in drinking (tbh it's all academic for me now anyway, but I can't imagine it's changed much in the last 4 months)

 

[editor]

The thing is i have only just started drink Porter, it is a nice sup.

Maybe we should brew a Brixton Buzz porter so that the profits go to helping Brixton rather than in the coffers of a multi million "punk" operation. We did consider one earlier, but weren't sure that there'd be much demand.

 

[Sunray]

I file "craft" in the same bullshit bin as I do "vintage".

Not true for beers, the commercial way to make beer is to get as much flavour out of as little ingredients as possible in the shortest time as possible. Craft brews don't have the same restrictions and will add in as much of all the things they want till they get the flavours they want. This can get expensive and is often far more time consuming. Camden Town larger is an example of this, the major brewers like say Carling, have narrowed the brewing time to about 2 hours. Camden Town ferment their booze for 2 weeks.

 

[buscador]

Maybe we should brew a Brixton Buzz porter so that the profits go to helping Brixton rather than in the coffers of a multi million "punk" operation. We did consider one earlier, but weren't sure that there'd be much demand.

I can assure you that friendofdorothy and I will be at the front of the queue for that, and then at the back of the queue again for more.

 

[Chilavert]

I went to the brewdog bar in Glasgow at the start of October; very good beer and not a hipster in sight.

 

[FridgeMagnet]

They opened one near me in Shepherds Bush recently so they're clearly expanding - it's pretty much always full now. The beer is generally both unusual and great, with a very large selection that varies a lot, though it is not cheap - they have a few pints around the lower £4s but after that things are either £4.60+ or come in small glasses or both. (Hardly unusual for London of course, even for crappy mass market lager. One place round here I paid £5 for an indifferent pint of Estrella. Only once mind.) Staff all seem cheerful and know what they're selling, and there are also quite a few of them.

It compares favourably to the nearby Defector's Weld, which is very hipsteriffic and CAMRA approved but is just as if not more expensive, has worse service and worse beer.

They are of course about as punk as my socks and probably less so.

The Brixton Porter is nice btw - it was my preferred one out of the three there.

 

[friendofdorothy]

I can assure you that friendofdorothy and I will be at the front of the queue for that, and then at the back of the queue again for more.

editor yes please I know porter isn't fashionable with the younger crowd - but there's plenty of us old guzzlers about.

 

[killer b]

do you think? i reckon there's been a big increase in dark beer sales in the last 12 months. if what's on the pumps is anything to go by anyway - it was all hoppy blonde stuff for ages, but there's loads more variety about atm.

 

[FridgeMagnet]

Porter is definitely getting trendy recently I think, or at least people are trying to make it so.

Tbh anything which isn't just the standard shite has the potential to end up trendy simply because beer is mostly just ducking full. If you're paying stupidly over the odds anyway why not get a porter or a proper stout or a super-oxygenated Campari and ginger or any bloody thing that is at least a bit novel.

 

[friendofdorothy]

do you think? i reckon there's been a big increase in dark beer sales in the last 12 months. if what's on the pumps is anything to go by anyway - it was all hoppy blonde stuff for ages, but there's loads more variety about atm.

My local - the Prince Regent - the bar manager keeps telling me I'm among the few in liking the stouts and porters and that the pale ales always sell well.

 

[editor]

Well, if we do make Porter we'll make sure it's as affordable as the rest of the Brixton Buzz range.

 

[FridgeMagnet]

I popped into my local BrewDog on the way home and asked someone whether they knew about a branch opening in Brixton. She said that they wanted to, but it fell through at the last minute - not sure where they were trying to buy.

 

[Belushi]

The Grosvenor would fit with their punk credentials

 

[editor]

Cash from chaos!

 

[salem]

I've seen a few posts about this Brixton buzz stuff and am curious. Anywhere dog friendly that sells it? I need to get out of the house and might head down that way.

 

[salem]

Oh god those two look like a pair of tossers