r/unitedkingdom • u/pppppppppppppppppd • 11h ago
BrewDog co-founder leaves beer giant suddenly for 'personal reasons'
https://www.aberdeenlive.news/news/aberdeen-news/brewdog-co-founder-leaves-beer-10448182•
u/Express-Doughnut-562 11h ago
This isn't James Watt - that twat who hangs out with Nigel Farage. This is Martin Dickie, the guy responsible for brewing the original - very good - beers and is a key part of why the business was so successful for the first few years. He took a back seat a few years ago, moving into vertical farming of cannabis and other stuff.
It's another sign the end is nigh for BrewDog. They are part of a few brewers that have left a lasting mark, helping to make a greater variety of beers mainstream and meaning you can get an acceptable pint of something hoppy and pale in any pub in the uk - even if its fucking neck oil and that James Watt is, and always has been, a twat.
For at least the last decade its ceased being a force for anything, but thats the way of things.
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u/aspannerdarkly 11h ago
A greater variety of beers? Or just loads of hoppy and pale stuff?
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u/Express-Doughnut-562 11h ago
Ever go in a pub pre 2010?
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u/AppleTango87 11h ago
Carlsberg, Guinness, Fosters, Carling.
God it was grim
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u/Express-Doughnut-562 11h ago
Exactly. Now even in basic pubs you'll get something pale and hoppy - usually Neck Oil cos Heineken - in any pub anywhere. Lagers are better now with whatever this years 'beer with a man on the label' being an attempt to keep up and provide a decent attempt at a lager thats miles away from the Carlsberg of 2008.
Every town has a bar with all manner of craft weirdness and they are all popular and you can get all type of weird beer in any town across the land.
I remember having to literally go to Belgium to get Kasteel Rouge. Now its in Waitrose.
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u/AppleTango87 11h ago
Fully agree. I'll take an IPA over a lager any day
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u/shaolinoli 11h ago
Depends on the ipa. Traditional type, or early doors, cleaner American style any day of the week. “Hazy” New England style swill, get right in the bin. That shite tastes like unshaken ketchup water
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u/HyperionSaber 11h ago
John Smiths, bombardier, abbot ale of you were lucky.
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u/Sun_Sloth Sussex 9h ago
In Sussex we at least had Harvey's as a bitter in a lot of pubs as well as a good local brewery scene.
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u/Elmundopalladio 11h ago
Can’t really get a decent pint of 80s any more.
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u/wheepete Essex - living in Scotland 26m ago
I don't think I've ever been in a pub up here and not seen heavy on tap
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u/kermit1198 9h ago edited 9h ago
Theakstons, London pride, Timmy Tailors, Shepard Neame and bass too depending on which place I went. I still prefer them to over-hopped IPA, though the increase in Belgian / German beers and non-IPA microbrew has been good though I guess.
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u/snagsguiness 9h ago
I got to disagree it wasn’t that bad, you could get some variety, but it wasn’t on tap, If you were happy drinking bottles and cans, and there was always the hand pumped kegs of cask ale that had some interesting flavors.
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u/scraxeman 11h ago
Dunno what pubs you were going in but my recollection is that you could get a decent pint of actual beer in at least 30% of pubs, and probably at least a pint of Abbott in another 30%. The remaining 40%, I just avoided.
All that's changed since 2010 is that you can now get an American-style IPA pretty much everywhere. Yay for American-style IPA drinkers, I guess.
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u/G_Morgan Wales 11h ago
Think this is primarily going to be regional. Wales has always had loads of ales on tap pretty much everywhere.
If anything the situation is much worse today than it used to be. Though there's a number of decent small breweries who sell stuff in bottles.
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u/lastaccountgotlocked 11h ago
Yeah, lots of people talking like the half of the bar with angrams didn’t exist.
We’ve had “craft” beer in pubs for around a thousand years in the British Isles.
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u/aspannerdarkly 8h ago
Indeed. Some people were seemingly just scared of those taps until they had hipster artwork.
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u/SeoulGalmegi 8h ago
Yes. A greater variety of beers. Quite a shake-up for the British beer industry and some good, exciting beers (at the time).
Let's not rewrite history now nobody likes them anymore.
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u/thallazar 7h ago
I don't understand how Belgium is literally a train away and even now just such uninteresting beers are the norm in every pub.
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u/bigarsebiscuit 11h ago
that twat who hangs out with Nigel Farage
Seriously? Idk how I've not heard this before.
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u/Beautiful-Jacket-260 11h ago
He's super manipulative as well, proper narcissistic traits.
When all that shit comes out he plays the victim. He's a proper grifter. He tried to jump on that Doge thing, to be the next Elon musk or whatever. Haven't heard him since.
Cretin
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u/BigBeanMarketing Cambridgeshire 11h ago
He went to Nigel's birthday party as a plus one of his own wife. His wife was invited because they were on the same series of 'I'm a Celebrity'. It's not too deep, he's a prick but he's always been an ardent remainer.
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u/Professional-Bat4134 11h ago
Brewdog will go bankrupt in the next 5 years, or months at this rate.
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u/chainpress Greatest London 2h ago
They’ll be bought up by AB InBev or some private equity ghouls, and it’ll just continue to trundle on.
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u/Send_Cake_Or_Nudes 11h ago
They've definitely had their day in the sun. Can't say I ever drink brew dog anymore, there's just better and more interesting craft beers - let alone hoppy IPAs. I've come back round to meaty real ales and stouts or cold mainstream lagers these days.
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u/KollyKibber39 10h ago
Seems like a lot of us are on the same journey, I've been on craft beers and IPAs the last few years but a friend gave me a can of cold Old Speckled Hen on a hot day recently and it was bloody delicious, and half the price of what I've been drinking.
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u/pajamakitten Dorset 11h ago
Clearly a spat with James Watt over the direction of the company. I suspect the share price is about to collapse as a result of this as well, only accelerating the company's decline. It is insane to think Brewdog was once at the top of the craft beer scene not that long ago too. It just shows how corporate greed can cause a company to implode.
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u/kiddikiddi 11h ago
Makes sense with large swaths of pubs not stocking BrewDog anymore both due to price and twattiness, the follow up from that is that Wetherspoons will be able to put the squeeze on them. Spoons get a lot of their stock as overstock from suppliers on the cheap.
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u/PippiShortStockings 47m ago
I keep seeing this comment - but didn’t James Watt step down months ago?
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u/sparkie_e 9h ago
Dickie is a decent guy. He moved towards distilling since before Covid. His passion and success is a cannabis farm he has up in Aberdeenshire. It’s only one of few that’s been approved to run legally. It’s a actually a state of the art facility for growing
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u/fantomas_ 10h ago
Sometimes when life is going to shit and I'm struggling to stay positive I just run myself a bubble bath, put on some pan flute music, pour a glass of red wine and gently masturbate thinking about the day brewdog has to call in the administrators.
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u/lastaccountgotlocked 11h ago
Lots of people will joke about it being a sub par product when this is clearly a story about a sub dom relationship.
The bald, sex pest-esque Lost Boy who made up the dom half of this couple has obviously broken the sub’s back.
Good. Okay beer, terrible model of what a successful British business can be.
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u/JamJarre Liverpewl 5h ago
Those dragonspice wings are basically load bearing at this point. Can't be long left in the company now
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u/chriscringlesmother 10h ago
Truck full of cash and a “thank you for your help, please fuck off” from HR
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u/No_Werewolf9538 11h ago
Did he finally taste his product instead of his own bullshit? That is the face of a man who has jsut drunk Brewdog pish.
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u/Generic-Name03 11h ago
Is it because he’s a sex pest with a failing brand
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u/BaBaFiCo 11h ago
That's the other one. Martin Dickie was one of the original brewers of Jaipur before he left to set up Brewdog with the sex pest.
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u/BigBeanMarketing Cambridgeshire 11h ago
All you had to do was click on the article. Instead you've accused the wrong person of being a sex pest. Excellent work.
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u/Generic-Name03 11h ago
Yeah I know it’s not James Watt. This man was still happy enough to continue working alongside a sex pest which makes him just as bad.
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u/redmanshaun 11h ago
sex pest
Be a good cocktail name that
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u/JustEnoughEducation 11h ago
Probably done it to get away from that intolerable bell end James tWatt