BrewDog has never been punk. It's always been a PR machine. I kind of can't believe how big they've got with pretty mediocre beers.
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Boycott them purely for how they treat their staff. Fuck em
Yep. There's a good BBC documentary podcast about it.
Edit: link to the first episode:
Good Ship BrewDog: 1. Setting Sail
Episode webpage: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0cg3rpb
Tried them only once, not a fan might be the worst beer I've tasted. To be fair though it was only one of a few options of theirs and I might have picked the worst one maybe.
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This is the best summary I could come up with:
But BrewDog's latest Make Earth Great Again (MEGA) report published on Tuesday claimed many carbon credits were now of 'highly questionable' environmental benefit and that the costs of those it could trust had 'gone through the roof'.
But workers have reacted negatively to BrewDog's decision to abandon its eco-friendly pledge in what they see as another step away from the brewery's so-called 'punk' ethos that once saw its co-founders blow up cans of Heineken as a PR stunt.
'Whether it be on refusing to meet workers over the abandonment of the real living wage or claiming to be the first carbon negative brewery in the country, BrewDog appear to have given up on being the ethical business that their whole brand is built on.'
The end of BrewDog's carbon negative claim comes after James Watt stood down as company boss in May this year - amid allegations of inappropriate conduct first raised in a BBC Scotland investigation in 2022.
Mr Watt, who is dating Made In Chelsea star Georgia Toffolo, appeared to attempt to warn staff away from taking part in the documentary in a post on BrewDog's Equity for Punks investors forum reported by the Guardian.
The programme included reports that Mr Watt had purchased £500,000 of shares in Heineken and invested £2million in a Cayman Islands hedge fund - suggesting a damaging contrast between his business dealings and BrewDog's 'punk' image.
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Add this to trying to trademark the word “punk”, not paying artists doing work for them, using job applications as a means to get free work/ideas, and many, many other awful things…
Given the ASA's scrutiny and their 'offsetting' project's partual failure, this is no wonder. If they hold the pledge to insource the carbon emission reduction of their production, this is actually good news.
I'm not a craft beer neckbeard but I've been an ale drinker since late 90's as larger is shite and gives me heartburn.
Every brand has a PR stance so i dgaf what their marketing says, I like most of their beers, some have odd flavours and I just don't get them ones. Never been in their over priced restaurants and probably never will.
The claims being made here are pretty shitty if true and glad Watt stepped down, kinda hope they short stuff out though just so I can keep drinking the beers of theirs I like, so long as they come in 500ml can,
Screw this 330ml trend for the same price as 500ml !!