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

[Spymaster]

What bloody use if a £15k gold can?

If you really can't think of something to do with gold worth 15k, feel free to give it to me.

This is a £25k prize by the look of it. £15k can PLUS £10K of shares. Even if it was all in shares; fine by me. They're probably easier to sell than a gold tin.

Superb promotion

 

[Spymaster]

ClimateAction congratulates Brewdog on being the first brewery in the world to go carbon negative.

Hats off to them

 

[salem]

They’ve gone all Willy Wonka...

Silence far from golden for child labourers in the mines of Uganda

 

[Teaboy]

If you really can't think of something to do with gold worth 15k, feel free to give it to me.

This is a £25k prize by the look of it. £15k can PLUS £10K of shares. Even if it was all in shares; fine by me. They're probably easier to sell than a gold tin.

Superb promotion

I know what to do with it. Melt it down for the cash. They should have just given away the cash and saved the energy. Underwhelming stuff. I guess they must be bored in lockdown like the rest of us.

 

[Spymaster]

I know what to do with it. Melt it down for the cash. They should have just given away the cash and saved the energy. Underwhelming stuff. I guess they must be bored in lockdown like the rest of us.

Eh?

Why melt it down when it’s already in one of the most valuable commodity forms on the planet.

It’s as good or better than cash.

 

[salem]

I mean tbf as far as competitions and marketing go, a crap prize is often more desired than it's equivalent in cash. It's not a bad competition and I find it hard to knock them for it.

 

[teuchter]

Eh?

Why melt it down when it’s already in one of the most valuable commodity forms on the planet.

It’s as good or better than cash.

It's solid gold, and Brewdog marketing genius, encompassed in one object that you can literally hold in your hand.

It would be like melting down a Henry Moore sculpture.

 

[tommers]

This thread is now a ritual as well-worn and practised as the changing of the seasons and the tides of the sea.

 

[Spymaster]

It's solid gold, and Brewdog marketing genius, encompassed in one object that you can literally hold in your hand.

It would be like melting down a Henry Moore sculpture.

Indeed.

It'll always be worth its weight value as a minimum but in addition, it's one of only 15 of something in the world, which would bestow additional value. You'd be nuts to melt it.

 

[teuchter]

This thread is now a ritual as well-worn and practised as the passing of the seasons, the tides of the sea.

It's an anchor in an ocean of uncertainty. Social glue for the urban75 community.

The Brewdog guys have created more than just a brand. They've created... they've created something bigger than that. Bigger than they know.

 

[Teaboy]

It's an anchor in an ocean of uncertainty. Social glue for the urban75 community.

The Brewdog guys have created more than just a brand. They've created... they've created something bigger than that. Bigger than they know.

I no longer think of them as a brewer. They're that company from that thread.

 

[8ball]

Awesome PR!

I hope they're stumping up something for the server fund.

 

[tommers]

I no longer think of them as a brewer. They're that company from that thread.

Theyve transcended mere brewing.

 

[Spymaster]

Theyve transcended mere brewing.

One of the UK (and Urban75's) best loved businesses?

 

[editor]

Theyve transcended mere brewing.

They are the personification of Wank, worshipped by many.

 

[Steel Icarus]

They're the wesonification of punk, sipped by plenty àeehhh

 

[Spymaster]

They're the wesonification of punk, sipped by plenty àeehhh

Let's face it, punk was a right load of old shit. Brewdog must be congratulated for turning it into something halfway decent.

 

[Steel Icarus]

Let's face it, punk was a right load of old shit. Brewdog must be congratulated for turning it into something halfway decent.

The idea of punk was great

 

[Spymaster]

The idea of punk was great

But the music was shit and the adherants were massive dickheads.

 

[Steel Icarus]

But the music was shit and the adherants were massive dickheads.

Laid down the template for post punk and bands doing things for themselves though, which was great

 

[teuchter]

The idea of punk was great

What was the idea?

 

[editor]

The idea of punk was great

And still - to this day - is massively influential. The punk explosion was hugely liberating for musicians, artists and individuals of all genders and sexualities.

But anyone who knows anything about the topic already knows that. And of course, anyone who knows anything about punk knows that Brewdog's attempt to appropriate the culture for self profit is laughable and embarrassing.

 

[editor]

Laid down the template for post punk and bands doing things for themselves though, which was great

This site wouldn't exist if not for punk.

 

[Spymaster]

What was the idea?

To give bellends something to bounce around to.

 

[Steel Icarus]

To give bellends something to bounce around to.

Lol no

 

[Spymaster]

Lol no

Maybe not but I think we can all agtree that Brewdog have done punk a massive favour.

 

[teuchter]

Whatever the original idea was (I don't think anyone agrees anyway), the fact is that punk's legacy in the 21st century UK boils down to Brewdog and Urban75. It's no coincidence that they emerged at the same time, give or take a few years.

I think it's wrong to be all negative about this. Culture is culture - you can't dictate how it will morph and develop.

 

[editor]

The scores are in from the Trolling Judges and it's a very very poor result all round.
A dismal 0.1/10. Poor show. All that wasted energy. Sad, really.

 

[editor]

This is jolly nice for those crazy punk rock guys. While they're planning build their first beer hotel in England, hosting an 18-bedroom boutique hotel featuring a 150-cover bar and restaurant on the ground floor and fire pit on the roof, they've just bagged £25m loan off the government and scooped £7.5m from its Equity for Punks Tomorrow scheme.

Just how punk rock is that!

 

[Raheem]

Quite similar to what the Sex Pistols did to EMI and A&M, TBF.