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OUR BEER JOURNEY SO FAR
The BrewDog story is a pretty wild tale. From small beginnings to global masterplans, here’s a guide to our rollercoaster existence so far.
Key - ICONIC ICONS
To give you some idea of how BrewDog has grown over time, we thought we’d share with you how our business has developed, year-by-year. Take a look through the numbers on each annual entry and you’ll soon see just how quickly things have taken off around here…
2007 - IT BEGINS
Our founders James Watt and Martin Dickie decide they are fed up of the stuffy UK beer market… so, aged just 24, do something about it. Thanks to some very scary bank loans, the guys start making their own hardcore craft beers in Fraserburgh, a town in northeast Scotland. They brew tiny batches, fill bottles by hand, sell their first beers at local markets out of a beaten-up old van… and BrewDog is born.
2008 - THINGS GET… WEIRD
The banks are somehow persuaded to give James and Martin more money… which they use to mastermind the UK's strongest ever beer, Tokyo. The press go bananas, calling it “the downfall of Western civilisation”. The Portman Group (who make the rules for alcohol producers) ban our products. We carry on regardless, start exporting to Sweden, Japan and America and become Scotland’s largest independent brewery.
Key - ICONIC ICONS
To give you some idea of how BrewDog has grown over time, we thought we’d share with you how our business has developed, year-by-year. Take a look through the numbers on each annual entry and you’ll soon see just how quickly things have taken off around here…
2007 - IT BEGINS
Our founders James Watt and Martin Dickie decide they are fed up of the stuffy UK beer market… so, aged just 24, do something about it. Thanks to some very scary bank loans, the guys start making their own hardcore craft beers in Fraserburgh, a town in northeast Scotland. They brew tiny batches, fill bottles by hand, sell their first beers at local markets out of a beaten-up old van… and BrewDog is born.
2008 - THINGS GET… WEIRD
The banks are somehow persuaded to give James and Martin more money… which they use to mastermind the UK's strongest ever beer, Tokyo. The press go bananas, calling it “the downfall of Western civilisation”. The Portman Group (who make the rules for alcohol producers) ban our products. We carry on regardless, start exporting to Sweden, Japan and America and become Scotland’s largest independent brewery.
Key - ICONIC ICONS
To give you some idea of how BrewDog has grown over time, we thought we’d share with you how our business has developed, year-by-year. Take a look through the numbers on each annual entry and you’ll soon see just how quickly things have taken off around here…
2007 - IT BEGINS
Our founders James Watt and Martin Dickie decide they are fed up of the stuffy UK beer market… so, aged just 24, do something about it. Thanks to some very scary bank loans, the guys start making their own hardcore craft beers in Fraserburgh, a town in northeast Scotland. They brew tiny batches, fill bottles by hand, sell their first beers at local markets out of a beaten-up old van… and BrewDog is born.
2008 - THINGS GET… WEIRD
The banks are somehow persuaded to give James and Martin more money… which they use to mastermind the UK's strongest ever beer, Tokyo. The press go bananas, calling it “the downfall of Western civilisation”. The Portman Group (who make the rules for alcohol producers) ban our products. We carry on regardless, start exporting to Sweden, Japan and America and become Scotland’s largest independent brewery.