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THE MONTHLY NEWSLETTER FROM BREWDOG #32 FANTASTIC FOUR: BREWDOG 4 FANTASTIC FOUR: GUESTS 5 BREWDOG HELSINKI OPENS 6-8 INTRODUCING: JOE&SEPH’S POPCORN 9 S IS FOR SALT 10-11 FOCUS ON: ALESMITH 12-13 MEAT SCHOOL IS IN SESSION 14-15 THE MONTH OF resolved. Spain are no longer that MAY 2010 HAD AN unstoppable footballing force. TRUCK NORRIS FACTS 16-17 IF OVERARCHING THEME, There’s been little recent seismic- IT WOULD PROBABLY HAVE BEEN related belching underneath Iceland. HOP TO IT!: GULLIBEER 18-19 UNCERTAINTY. Very few people agree with Nick. LATEST DEVELOPMENTS AT BREWDOG 20-21 In Europe, it was a time of financial It’s the perfect time to re-launch bailouts, volcanic ash clouds and Hop Propaganda. hung parliaments. Nobody was CARBON SMITH: BEDROOM BREWING 22-25 Welcome to the new-look BrewDog sure how to beat Spain at football; magazine! Coming to you every everyone still ‘agreed with Nick’. NOW: NEXT 26 two months, Hop Propaganda now contains twice the content, but in a Here at BrewDog however, any THE FIRST TIME 27 uncertainty about how we were format that makes it easier to handle. ABOVE: ISSUE ONE OF Inside each edition will be a mix of HOP PROPAGANDA getting on was tempered by the appearance of Hop Propaganda. the latest BrewDog achievements, HOP STOP: ENGLISH HOPS 28-29 Issue 1 came out that same month, plus features on other breweries and and focused on our recent win at amazing craft beer. SAY CIAO TO BREWDOG BOLOGNA! 30-31 the World Beer Cup and the hot And we want you to get involved. news that we were about to embrace INFOGRAPHIC: A HISTORY OF BEER 32-33 rebellion and begin kegging. Welcome to the new Hop Propaganda. Be uncertain no more. NEXT UP: HP 33 34 Now, a few months shy of five years later, many of those doubts have been LIKE WHAT YOU READ, OR WHERE YOU ARE READING IT? HERE’S HOW TO LET US KNOW! HOPPROPAGANDA [email protected] HOP PROPAGANDA – 3 – ISSUE 32 FANTASTIC FOUR FANTASTIC FOUR OUR LATEST RELEASES FOR YOUR DRINKING PLEASURE. THESE BRAND NEW BEERS ARE IN JUST SOME OF THE LATEST ADDITIONS TO OUR STOCKED SUPPLY OF GUEST BEERS. OUR BARS AND READY TO ROCK… THE PINNACLE OF GLOBAL CRAFT BREWING AT YOUR FINGERTIPS… BOURBON BABY INDIA PALE WEIZEN ROSÉE D’HIBISCUS OLDE ALE BABY SCOTCH ALE AGED IN US-HOPPED HEFEWEIZEN BREWED WITH FRAGRANTLY EFFERVESCENT QUEBECOIS RICH, FRUITY U.S. DECADENCE AT ITS AMERICAN WHISKEY CASKS THE TIMELESS WEIHENSTEPHAN BELGIAN-STYLE WHEAT BEER FINEST (SEE ALESMITH FEATURE, P10) STYLE: IBU: A BEER FOR: STYLE: IBU: A BEER FOR: STYLE: FROM A BEER FOR: STYLE: FROM A BEER FOR: SCOTCH ALE 35 DECIPHERING WHEAT IPA 65 DEMYSTIFYING WIT DIEU DU CIEL! ENJOYMENT OLD ALE ALESMITH ENDEARMENT 5.9% SPECIAL MOVE: SPECIAL MOVE: 5.9% SPECIAL SKILL: SPECIAL SKILL: BARREL FLING 6.2% CITRUS BLAST HIBISCUS FLOWERS 11% ENGLISH HOPS PARADOX COMPASS BOX ABSTRAKT AB:17 RASPBERRY TRIPPELBOCK TEN FIDY IMPERIAL STOUT LAYERED WITH THE IMPERIAL RYE PORTER LACED WITH TART, PUNCHY STRONG LAGER WITH IMMENSELY VISCOUS ROCKY MOUNTAIN COMPLEXITY OF COMPASS BOX WHISKY THREE BESPOKE ADDITIONS OF COFFEE MONUMENTAL ALCOHOL FINISH STOUT IN THE FINEST TRADITION STYLE: FROM: A BEER FOR: STYLE: FROM: A BEER FOR: STYLE: IBU: A BEER FOR: STYLE: IBU: A BEER FOR: FRUIT MIKKELLER ENGORGEMENT IMPERIAL OSKAR ENSHRINEMENT STOUT 100 DECANTING PORTER 100 DESIRING BEER STOUT BLUES SPECIAL MOVE: SPECIAL MOVE: SPECIAL SKILL: SPECIAL SKILL: 15% THE UNFLINCHING BARRAGE 10.9% CAFFEINOUS THUNDER 13% RASPBERRIES 10.5% TITANIC DARKNESS HOP PROPAGANDA HOP PROPAGANDA – 4 – – 5 – ISSUE 32 ISSUE 32 IT HAD TO HAPPEN. FOLLOWING A CHANCE SUGGESTION THAT MAYBE, ONE DAY, A SET OF BREWDOG-BRANDED DOORS COULD SWING OPEN SOMEWHERE IN THE FINNISH CAPITAL – WE ENDED UP TRENDING ON TWITTER IN FINLAND, SMOKE CURLING FROM THE TOP OF OUR RUINED SERVERS. CLEARLY HELSINKI REALLY, REALLY WANTED A BREWDOG BAR. WELL, GUESS WHAT? IT NOW HAS ONE! HOP PROPAGANDA HOP PROPAGANDA – 6 – – 7 – ISSUE 32 ISSUE 32 OUR MOST EAGERLY-AWAITED BAR IS OPEN AT TARKK’AMPUJANKATU 20, INTRODUCING 00150 HELSINKI... OUR MOST EAGERLY-AWAITED BAR IS OPEN AT TARKK’AMPUJANKATU 20, 00150 HELSINKI, IN A REALLY COOL CORNER UNIT GOURMET POPCORN THAT USED TO BE A BANK (JUST CHECK OUT THE UNUSUAL USE WE’VE FOUND FOR THE ARMOURED VAULT). RASMUS AND HIS POPCORN – NO LONGER MERELY CINEMA-BASED AMMUNITION TO BE AIMED AT TEAM ARE READY AND WAITING THERE TO THOSE WHO TALK DURING THAT EMOTIVE SPEECH BY ASLAN/XAVIER/DONATELLO. POUR CRAFT BEER FROM 18 TAP LINES FOR YOUR DRINKING PLEASURE! IT ALSO GOES BRILLIANTLY WELL WITH BEER! Alongside the freshest BrewDog beer we can ship Bar snacks have long existed – ever since to Finland, our Helsinki bar also features curated the domestication of the feral peanut beers from the very best breweries from around the – but none are more under-utilised than world, as well as a host of the finest Nordic brewing peaks of fluffy corn, popped and flavoured talent around at the moment – Maku, Sori, CAP, to your satisfaction. Hiisi and more. So, peckish beer fans – it’s time to go To complement the drinking options, we will also gourmet! be serving a range of cheeses to pair perfectly with your selected craft beer, as well as a few sweeter We have teamed up with world-beating options for later (when the imperial stouts make an popcorn experts Joe&Seph’s to match each appearance, perhaps?). BrewDog headliner with a specific flavour of gourmet popcorn, to highlight the very best Head on down to the corner of Tarkk’ampujankatu qualities of both. and Laivurinkatu and say Hei! Gourmet popcorn, brought to you by FINLAND, WE ARE FINALLY HERE!! Joe&Seph’s and BrewDog; it’s more than cinema cannon-fodder. Available in our BrewDog bars or online now. MADRAS CURRY WITH LIME & BLACK ONION SEEDS SUGGESTED PAIRING – PUNK IPA CHEDDAR CHEESE & CARAMEL, PEPPER & CHILLI GOAT’S CHEESE & BLACK PEPPER SMOKED PAPRIKA SUGGESTED PAIRING SUGGESTED PAIRING SUGGESTED PAIRING – FIVE AM RED ALE – – DEAD PONY PALE ALE – – THIS. IS. LAGER. – HOP PROPAGANDA HOP PROPAGANDA – 8 – – 9 – ISSUE 32 ISSUE 32 Today, whilst nowhere near the mainstream, there are at least several Gose-producing ANYTHING GOSE! brewers in Leipzig. But, pleasingly for Friedrich and Lothar, the style has moved beyond the German border. Brewers in A SALTY BEER DOESN’T NECESSARILY MEAN other countries have experimented with A HISTORIC GERMAN BEER. HERE ARE SOME historic beers such as Gose, and released both classic versions and updated twists OF THE CRAZIER SALT-STYLED BEERS THAT on the style. In the UK, one of the most ARE OUT THERE. well-received was first brewed last year – Magic Rock’s Salty Kiss; a sea buckthorn and gooseberry Gose, produced by MAD SALT THANKS TO ITS MYRIAD OF DIFFERING STYLES, BEER HAS A RANGE OF TASTES then-brewer Giada Maria Simioni and THAT IS PRETTY MUCH UNPARALLELED. Anders Kissmeyer of Kissmeyer Beer. But how was the salt introduced? each into the cupboard Yet a salt edge can really work, as Lothar Goldhahn re-established Magic Rock’s co-founder, Richard or up to a random shelf of the people of Leipzig have known the style for his restored old Burhouse, explains. your local bottle shop, for centuries. Leipziger Gose is a pub, the ‘Ohne Bedenken’ (the R “We took a sample from the FV before and at any one time you’ll likely sour wheat beer, first produced ‘Without Doubt’. According to transferring to the conditioning tank. be able to welcome the embrace in the town of Goslar in the 18th the Beer Hunter Michael Jackson, We then dosed this with three different of bitter, sweet or sour beers. Century. Brewed with coriander, the pub became so-called quantities of Maldon sea salt, and decided But salty? salt and Lactobacillus bacteria, it following the original landlord’s which we liked the best. We were keen that was a style that survived WWII much-repeated reply to the most you could taste the salt, but wary of making People’s first experience with based on the contents of a single commonly-asked question – it so salty that people wouldn’t want much. salt-laced beer is often that there brewers’ notebook. simply must be something wrong ‘Is this stuff drinkable?’). Lothar We were all pleasantly surprised because with it – or them. It’s just such an That brewer was Friedrich had to commission a brewery it’s not really a traditional Gose but neither PLUM, SALT AND unexpected taste to encounter Wurzler, and although his book to make the Gose for him, and is it your average fruit beer; it’s almost like BRETTANOMYCES-SOURED 4.5% (and not only in beer; in any was sadly lost in the 1960’s, judged its accuracy solely based a new style of beer altogether. We entered BELGIAN ALE liquid shy of drinking olive brine). an enthusiastic landlord named on taste-tests of local aficionados. it into the ‘Fruit Wheat Beer’ category at the World Beer Cup.” [Where it won] So why is Gose making a comeback? BAD SEED/NORTHERN MONK And why was Salty Kiss so well received? SALTED LEMON WIT IT MAY SEEM AN ODD Richard has a theory that might answer both questions at once, starting with INGREDIENT, BUT IT [SALT] the latter. “It’s refreshing and pleasant to SALTED LEMON PEEL AND ADDS A TANG JUST AS IT drink, and people want more than one LEMONGRASS WITBIER 7.4% – even for an unusual style.” Maybe the SAMPLE TESTING A sample is taken from the DOES TO A BEEF SANDWICH… drinkers of today are more adventurous, fermentation vessel and and willing to take a chance on a salty, MICHAEL JACKSON FERMENTATION VESSEL tested with three different sour beer.