What would you ask Brewdog?

[dynamic dave]

I have had a half of there PARADOX 10% at a beer festival its one most complex flavours I have ever tasted with a whiskey hint anyone else had a pint or two?

[Hogarth]

Pushing the boundaries is the easiest game in the world. Any f***wit can do it. 'Our beer has more hops than anyone else's! Our beer has the highest ABV in the world! Our beer is radical, but you're probably too bourgeois to appreciate it...'

If Brewdog ever came up with a beer of 4% ABV that you actually wanted to drink a few pints of, I'd have some respect for them.

[196osh]

Pushing the boundaries is the easiest game in the world. Any f***wit can do it. 'Our beer has more hops than anyone else's! Our beer has the highest ABV in the world! Our beer is radical, but you're probably too bourgeois to appreciate it...'

If Brewdog ever came up with a beer of 4% ABV that you actually wanted to drink a few pints of, I'd have some respect for them.

See Invalid Stouts post.

[LegTaste]

£35 a bottle?!

Thats just insane, as is the alcohol content.

I bet it doesn't even taste nice.

Also their videos are bloody annoying to watch

I would like to try it though, should be easy enough to make your own.

Update:

Looks like they've been beat

http://beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/6513/55712
http://beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/6513/57856

[boingy]

They were beaten briefly so they just made a stronger one. Kinda pointless and not really beer.

[mysterio]

Nooo not the 'is it or isn't it beer' debate again!

[Jolum]

Pushing the boundaries is the easiest game in the world. Any f***wit can do it. 'Our beer has more hops than anyone else's! Our beer has the highest ABV in the world! Our beer is radical, but you're probably too bourgeois to appreciate it...'

If Brewdog ever came up with a beer of 4% ABV that you actually wanted to drink a few pints of, I'd have some respect for them.

I have to agree with you. I've seen some of their interviews and they come over as complete knobs. Still it's clever marketing, I especially liked the 'strongest beer in the world' bollox. A very 'original' way to get noticed. Still it seems to have worked as now they have beer groupies collecting there bottles - WTF is all that about. I obviously don't come from the same planet and I'm glad of that

[calumrobertson]

Why all the negative stuff about Brewdog on here? Just because they brew beer that isnt to your taste it doesnt make it bad beer! They have won plenty of awards which they wouldnt have won if their beer was crap - most of these were in blind tastings so it has no bearing what you think of them as individuals or their marketing strategy. There are some of their beers i dont like at all, but again its down to personal taste. Why not push the boundaries - they are there to be pushed and i for one am sick and tired of the who mentality that beer must be how it has always been and if anyone challenges that they are somehow the devil...if something has malt, hops and water in it then how can you say its not beer?!
For all the good CAMRA does i think they do a terrible job of promoting ale to a younger audience - i'm sure anyone who has been to a camra festival will acknowledge that - unless you happened to like their brand of very traditional entertainment - which obviously some really do but i'd say its doing more to alienate people new to ale than anything more - IMO.
I think that companies like brewdog are really good at promoting beer to a younger audience who, imo, will potentially then take more of an interest in ales and then try more and more different ones from different breweries - i think that can only be a good thing.

[Jolum]

I think that companies like brewdog are really good at promoting beer to a younger audience who, imo, will potentially then take more of an interest in ales and then try more and more different ones from different breweries - i think that can only be a good thing.

In the words of the yuffs...wotever

Sorry m8, maybe I'm just a cynical old b*stard but I don't think anyone is arguing against pushing the boundaries of brewing - personally I got into brewing because I hate watery pissy lagers and ales and (even worse) the range of ales available to me locally was far too limited (and as you say the same old John Smiths smooth crap) so I had to learn how to brew decent ales myself. It's probably the British thing of seeing a couple of knobs blowing their own trumpet that's a real turn off.

Oh and as for getting the 'yuffs' into ale. I've got 3 'yuffs' myself. Take it from me, you could tattoo the words DRINK ALE onto the inside of their eye lids and it wouldn't make a blind bit of difference. Now, if you got Beckham or Lady GaGa (or whoever the tw*t of the moment is) to drink a pint of Pale Ale during an interview, you'd see the bottles fly off the shelf

[delboy]

Why all the negative stuff about Brewdog on here? Just because they brew beer that isnt to your taste it doesnt make it bad beer! They have won plenty of awards which they wouldnt have won if their beer was crap - most of these were in blind tastings so it has no bearing what you think of them as individuals or their marketing strategy. There are some of their beers i dont like at all, but again its down to personal taste. Why not push the boundaries - they are there to be pushed and i for one am sick and tired of the who mentality that beer must be how it has always been and if anyone challenges that they are somehow the devil...if something has malt, hops and water in it then how can you say its not beer?!
For all the good CAMRA does i think they do a terrible job of promoting ale to a younger audience - i'm sure anyone who has been to a camra festival will acknowledge that - unless you happened to like their brand of very traditional entertainment - which obviously some really do but i'd say its doing more to alienate people new to ale than anything more - IMO.
I think that companies like brewdog are really good at promoting beer to a younger audience who, imo, will potentially then take more of an interest in ales and then try more and more different ones from different breweries - i think that can only be a good thing.

Well said.

Now, if you got Beckham or Lady GaGa (or whoever the tw*t of the moment is) to drink a pint of Pale Ale during an interview, you'd see the bottles fly off the shelf

If they were going to drink ale then brewdog would probably be one of the ones they would choose to drink, the end could justify the means.

[boingy]

Nooo not the 'is it or isn't it beer' debate again!

Oops.

[Jolum]

If they were going to drink ale then brewdog would probably be one of the ones they would choose to drink, the end could justify the means.

I'd actually be interested to know what a bunch of yuffs thought of Brewdog's Ales or Ales in general. I say we create a post in a more yuff oriented forum...is http://www.asbo.co.uk/forums the correct URL?

[bosium]

I'd probably ask them why they make such shite beer. I'll probably annoy some people by saying this but I really think their beer is totally overblown and overrated. They seem to just take the american approach and up the alcohol and hop contents of all their beers and then slap a fancy label on it and market it as 'craft beer', which they probably think is synonymous with great beer (it's not).

[Invalid Stout]

I'd actually be interested to know what a bunch of yuffs thought of Brewdog's Ales or Ales in general. I say we create a post in a more yuff oriented forum...is http://www.asbo.co.uk/forums the correct URL?

You do realise that there are people on this forum in the age group you're insulting?

As for whether CAMRA or BrewDog are more attractive to young people, well, compare your average CAMRA beer festival to this: http://www.musaaberdeen.com/blog-article/musa-re-launch . The Market Gallery Pub event in Glasgow a few months ago also drew a painfully hip, young crowd. I conclude that good beer is attractive to a wider group than CAMRA is.

[Jolum]

You do realise that there are people on this forum in the age group you're insulting?

I do remember being young once (just) and I recall we had a thing called a sense of humour in those days

I would have thought these days young people would need a good sense of humour more than ever