BrewDog is underrated.

Wow, it is cheap!

 

Never tried their stuff in the States, but I was in Ireland last week and tried Sink the Bismark, TNP, and Punk IPA. Punk was great on draft over there and I had a shot each of the other two to share with about 5 or 6 other people for the novelty. The two big boys were roughly 7-8 euros per shot which isn't terrible I guess to try something so unique once. Punk was average for the area as well. That being said, I really don't see myself buying too many of their offerings in the US.

 

Can a brewery with its own TV show really be called underrated?

 

I've never had Nadurra, but I'll pick one up based on your recommendation. It's appreciated--I'm always on the lookout for new scotch to try, and there are so many that it is often hard to choose.

As for BrewDog's prices, I don't see them being much higher than many other comparable breweries. Sam Adams, Goose Island, Three Floyds, Dogfish Head, and Hopping Frog all sell beer for between $15 and $200 a bottle. I suppose we all value things differently, and you are correct that there is a lot of excellent beer that isn't as pricey.


But until you've tried and dismissed every beer BrewDog makes, don't you think it's a bit presumptuous to assume none of it is good? Anarchist Alchemist is about the price of DFH 120, and I like it just as much. Jackhammer is a great IPA for less than $5 a bottle. Cocoa Psycho fares well against other premium coffee stouts. Tokyo is pricey, but so is DHF WWS and the Avery Demons series, and I think it holds its own.

I've had many BAs over to my house, and all of them have enjoyed Sink the Bismark. It is the biggest hop bomb ever--nothing else even comes close. It's expensive, and a novelty, but sometimes an expensive novelty is just what a tasting session needs.

If you've tried all of these and didn't like them, that's cool. But if you haven't tried them, why dismiss them?

 

Thanks! I was wondering what the fuck my problem was! It must be the crack!

I've got to tell all my hop head friends that the reason they prefer BrewDog's IPAs to Thomas Hardy is because they, too, are crack addicts! Those poor bastards!

Can someone PLEASE point us all to a recovery program where we can overcome our crack habits and learn to limit our preferences to just one style of beer?

And thank you, WhatANicePub, for opening my eyes to my drug problem.

 

I like BrewDog. One of the best breweries in the UK and in the world. But I'd prefer Harviestoun when talking beer from Scotland. To me Harviestoun is an underrated brewery. Brewdog IMO tries to much to be an American craft brewery instead of a Scottish one. Ill pay $7-8 for a highland park aged old ale but why on earth would I spend $6-7 on an American style when I could grab a 6 pack or bomber of FFF roughly the same price. And the brewdog I've had Is exceptional, but its not better than ipa's, stouts, anything imperial made by the great U.S. breweries. Good and I like them. But not enough to rave about them over some of our American guys

 

of course you see the BD side from their blogs, I enjoy one sided views they're so enlightening when don't bother with other views.

 

I don't buy beers that are $15 a bottle from any of the other breweries you listed, so there's that. I also have no interest in WWS or 120 because I don't think they're all that good (not to mention DFH hasn't been available in Indiana for 2 years+), so I don't care about comparable beers from BrewDog. I'm also not convinced that any foreign brewed American-style IPA needs to exist when there are so many great actual American IPAs on the shelves that are 1) way more fresh, and 2) $10 or less for a sixer. Add that to the fact that pretty much no one carries BrewDog around here due to poor sales in the past, so they're a total afterthought in the area.

So why dismiss them? Because nothing I've had to this point has been even relatively impressive, let alone for the price. There's far too much good beer on the shelves for a considerably lower price. And for what it's worth, I think that they come off as gimmicky douchebags that think far too highly of themselves.

 

Brewdog is Overrated!

 

It was very good, but not irreplaceable; must be a lot of very similar beers fairly easily available.

 

Ten Scottish breweries who make better beer than Brewdog, and aren't dicks: Harviestoun, Tryst, Alechemy, Orkney, Highland, Tempest, Fyne Ales, Luckie, Cromarty, Williams Bros.

 

Don't forget Stewart Brewing or St Andrew's Brewing Company as well.

 

This was actually quite nice post. That's is certainly true. But US is not the main market of Brewdog. So, maybe in Scotland people have not access "great U.S breweries".

 

Lol.

Harviestoun maybe, depend pretty much preferences. Others...no.

 

Their one-sided view is not the point. I could have used CAMRA articles addressing the same subject matter over Brewdog if they were to exist. The point is, that it illustrates my argument about Brewdog rebelling against CAMRA's tradional notions that cask and not keg is the supreme vessel to dispense beer (real ale).