BrewDog

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BrewDog
legal form plc
founding 2007
Seat Ellon , United Kingdom
Number of employees 750 (2016)
Branch beer
Website www.brewdog.co.uk

India Pale Ale from Brewdog

BrewDog is a brewery group and a system catering company ; the company's headquarters are in Ellon , Aberdeenshire , Scotland .

history

Brewdog was founded in 2007 by two friends James Watt and Martin Dickie in Fraserburgh . The first beer was produced in April 2007. Brewdog claims to be the largest independent brewery in Scotland. It produces 400,000 bottles per month for export around the world. The total output in the 2016 financial year was 214,000 hl. Other breweries are located in Columbus , United States , Berlin and Brisbane, Australia .

Brewdog does not finance its growth with conventional bank loans, but with the “Equity for Punks” participation model, a kind of crowdfunding. In the first 5 rounds, nearly £ 67 million were raised from 95,000 people. In San Francisco -based TSG Consumer Partners account for 22% of the BrewDog capital.

Restaurants

In October 2010 Brewdog opened its first own beer bar in Aberdeen called BrewDog Aberdeen . Since then, Brewdog bars have opened and operated worldwide. In 2015 there were 19 in the UK and another eight worldwide. So also in Barcelona , Helsinki , Florence , São Paulo and since autumn 2016 in Berlin-Mitte .

DogTap Berlin

On May 1, 2019, BrewDog took over the large restaurant with the Stone Brewing Berlin brewery on the site of the former Mariendorf gasworks . The opening as DogTap Berlin took place in August 2019.

The restaurants in Germany are operated by Brewdog GmbH . The company was founded in Traitsching in 2014 and has been based in Berlin since 2016. It is a member brewery in the Brauring , a cooperation company of private breweries from Germany, Austria and Switzerland.

beers

Gray squirrel with The End of History at BrewDog Bar Camden, London

Brewdog produces different types of beer such as ale , stout , IPA and lager. These are each filled in bottles. Individual fillings are also filled into kegs . The bottled beers are sold in supermarkets across the UK and are also exported worldwide. BrewDog has also been officially available in Germany since December 2010. One Pint GmbH from Handewitt has been the sole importer for Germany since May 2017 .

At the end of November 2009 Brewdog introduced a beer called Tactical Nuclear Penguin with 32% alcohol, which was to be the strongest beer ever made.

Shortly thereafter, the Sink the Bismarck was also presented, which even has 41% alcohol.

With The End of History the limited edition of a 55% beer was created. Animal rights activists protested against the filling in stuffed gray squirrels and ermines .

In February 2016, the Brewdog brewery " open-sourced " all of its beer recipes for the public, turning them into a kind of free beer .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b BrewDog History, at www.brewdog.co.uk , accessed July 21, 2017
  2. ↑ http://www.digitalnewsroom.co.uk/brewdog/businessgrowth/
  3. ↑ USA Brewery , at www.brewdog.com , accessed September 6, 2016
  4. ↑ https://www.theguardian.com/business/2017/apr/09/punk-beermaker-brewdog-sells-22-of-firm-to-private-equity-house
  5. ^ BrewDog Aberdeen . www.brewdog.com. Retrieved February 18, 2016.
  6. ↑ https://www.tagesspiegel.de/berlin/stone-brewing-verlaesst-berlin-zapfenstreich-fuer-das-craft-beer-aus-mariendorf/24195646.html
  7. ↑ Member breweries . Brewing ring, accessed February 20, 2020 .
  8. ↑ BrewDog beer available again in Germany ( memento from July 15, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on April 4, 2015
  9. ↑ 'World's strongest' beer with 32% strength launched , BBC News November 26, 2009.
  10. ↑ Sink the Bismarck !: Brewery Releases World's Strongest Beer At 41% ABV on www. huffingtonpost .com, accessed April 4, 2015
  11. ↑ Beer with 55 percent alcohol content served in stuffed squirrels at www.nachrichten.at, accessed on April 4, 2015
  12. ↑ BrewDog "open-sources" its beer recipes on the Scottish Business News Network (February 25, 2016)
  13. ↑ BrewDog's open-source revolution is at the vanguard of postcapitalism by Paul Mason in The Guardian (February 29, 2016)