BrewDog: yet another hip company using 'rebel' language to sell its stuff

[teuchter]

Not at all. But posting bollocks like that with no excuses is.

Being drunk is not a valid excuse however.

 

[friedaweed]

I've only been in one Brewdog pub and that was in Brizzol.

It had young funky hip staff waxing lyrical about hops and grains, polished concrete tabletops and funky stools IIRC and it had a nice big window for people watching. I had two pints of a very nice strong stout which left me skint but merry. The wife had some sort of dead horse brew. We stole a couple of swanky magazines to offset the overpriced ale and then headed into the rest of Brizzol which to be fair was like a further extension of our Brewdog experience. We didn't steal anything else though

 

[SpookyFrank]

Are they worse than the massive multinationals then?

And to say their beer is filth and their pubs are fucking horrid barns full of faux-authenticity and braying arseholes. Well, it's all down to personal taste isn't it?

Their beers are actually really diverse - far better than anything produced by the global beer cos, and not that different from many of the other craft providers. With a commitment to producing really decent AF beer and coming up to half of their food vegan I think they do a pretty good job compared to most pub/beer companies.

Most times I have been in Brewdog pubs, the people have most certainly not been braying arseholes (what exactly is a braying arsehole, pray tell?)

And where did you get the information that they were started by trust funders? Trust funds are pretty rare really, but the phrase gets tossed around here quite a lot incorrectly, when what you really mean is having gotten some investment or used some savings. Which is pretty much how any business starts.

I've never been in a brewdog pub. I drank one of their beers once, by mistake. But everything about the company screams shit products aimed at arseholes and my nose for such things is never wrong.

 

[killer b]

I've never been in a brewdog pub.

we can tell.

 

[teuchter]

the rest of Brizzol which to be fair was like a further extension of our Brewdog experience.

This of course requires further discussion.

 

[editor]

I've never been in a brewdog pub. I drank one of their beers once, by mistake. But everything about the company screams shit products aimed at arseholes and my nose for such things is never wrong.

The one in Brixton has huge windows, distressed wood and 'industrial' piping along with some faux edgy biker gang style neon. It looks totally unappealing. Who the fuck would want to drink in a corporate shithole like that when you've pubs like the Effra Hall Tavern around the corner?

 

[friedaweed]

This of course requires further discussion.

Hip, trendy and expensive with lots of polished concrete. Quite lovely really, rounded it off with a nice gig in a lovely Theatre.

 

[Proper Tidy]

I just don't like them for all the punk stuff, seems knobby. I will actually drink their beers though, would rather have a bottle of punk ipa than a can of shit lager. I buy the fake dickhead cans from lidl though which is probably verboten to beer freaks

 

[8ball]

Who the fuck would want to drink in a corporate shithole like that when you've pubs like the Effra Hall Tavern around the corner?

People who are into a slightly different kind of wanky to the Effra Hall Tavern, I would guess.

 

[Proper Tidy]

My other half rated nanny state when pregnant tbf

 

[Spymaster]

People who are into a slightly different kind of wanky to the Effra Hall Tavern, I would guess.

 

[editor]

People who are into a slightly different kind of wanky to the Effra Hall Tavern, I would guess.

What's wanky about the Effra Hall Tavern?

 

[friedaweed]

Who the fuck would want to drink in a corporate shithole like that w

We did. It was raining and we'd just walked out of the hotel and needed somewhere to get our bearings. That's were we robbed the magazines from, under that edgy biker style neon

 

[Spymaster]

I think the Seven Dials one looks pretty good inside, tbf.

 

[SpookyFrank]

The one in Brixton has huge windows, distressed wood and 'industrial' piping along with some faux edgy biker gang style neon. It looks totally unappealing. Who the fuck would want to drink in a corporate shithole like that when you've pubs like the Effra Hall Tavern around the corner?

Quite so, a glance inside one from outside is more than enough to set off all my 'nope' alarm bells. And that beer I tasted, 'punk' 'IPA' was not the work of people who care about making good beer, or even people who know what beer is. It was the work of enemies of humanity.

 

[8ball]

What's wanky about the Effra Hall Tavern?

It's the faux-authentic to the Brewdog bar's authentic-faux.
I'd imagine if they're not far apart, a lot of people might pop to one, then the other.

Get a rounded flavour of the 'London hipster pub' experience.

 

[8ball]

Quite so, a glance inside one from outside is more than enough to set off all my 'nope' alarm bells. And that beer I tasted, 'punk' 'IPA' was not the work of people who care about making good beer, or even people who know what beer is. It was the work of enemies of humanity.

It's a bit too 'bitey' for my taste, but I gather that's what they were aiming for.
But it's true that its no Papa Jangles.

 

[Spymaster]

Quite so, a glance inside one from outside is more than enough to set off all my 'nope' alarm bells.

If they're repelling you and certain others, they're doing something right!

 

[SpookyFrank]

It's a bit too 'bitey' for my taste, but I gather that's what they were aiming for.
But it's true that its no Papa Jangles.

It would have been less bitey had I smashed the bottle and eaten that instead.

 

[Spymaster]

It's a bit too 'bitey' for my taste ...

Part of the current scourge of beer making in which massively over-hopped ales have become fashionable

 

[xenon]

Spymaster

What's thrombo?

I don't actually give a shit about the story here, just wondered why this thread kept getting bumped. Yawnsome.

 

[editor]

It's the faux-authentic to the Brewdog bar's authentic-faux.

Whatever you say, dear.

 

[8ball]

Whatever you say, dear.

You tell it like it is, Preacher Man.

 

[Spymaster]

Spymaster

What's thrombo?

Freaking out apparently. It was a new one on me too but I like it.

Also described as: "The process to describe intense freaking-out that can lead to a full-on thrombosis, especially if left un-mocked".

 

[8ball]

Part of the current scourge of beer making in which massively over-hopped ales have become fashionable

I think Punk IPA was pretty instrumental in going way too far with the hops - hoppiness was on a bit of an upswing and I think they probably did Punk as a bit of an attention-seeking wheeze. I doubt they expected it to do so well.

 

[editor]

Equity punks! Rock and roll! Fighting sexism and... oh, wait.

 

[Spymaster]

I think Punk IPA was pretty instrumental in going way too far with the hops - hoppiness was on a bit of an upswing and I think they probably did Punk as a bit of an attention-seeking wheeze. I doubt they expected it to do so well.

I don't know how much of a lead Brewdog played in it but it's been going on for quite a few years. If like me, you find over-hopped beer pretty much undrinkable, you now have to taste any unknown beer before committing to a pint because more than half of them are too sour. They used to be the exception rather than the rule.

 

[xenon]

Freaking out apparently. It was a new one on me too but I like it.

Also described as: "The process to describe intense freaking-out that can lead to a full-on thrombosis, especially if left un-mocked".

Cheers.

Don't know about this semi vegan burger thing, BD are still twats for various reasons though, regardless.

 

[8ball]

Equity punks! Rock and roll! Fighting sexism and... oh, wait.

Isn't that quite an old pic?

 

[8ball]

I don't know how much of a lead Brewdog played in it but it's been going on for quite a few years. If like me, you find over-hopped beer pretty much undrinkable, you now have to taste any unknown beer before committing to a pint because more then half of them are too sour. They used to be the exception rather than the rule.

Well, technically should be bitter rather than sour.
There are some sour beers out there, I usually can't stand them.
Hoppiness is more of a mood thing. I think we're past 'peak hop' now, but I'm going to a massive beer festival on Friday so can verify for sure by the weekend.