THE MONTHLY NEWSLETTER FROM BREWDOG #32 FANTASTIC FOUR: BREWDOG 4

FANTASTIC FOUR: GUESTS 5

BREWDOG 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 IFOVERARCHING 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 . 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

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HOP PROPAGANDA – 3 – ISSUE 32 FANTASTIC FOUR FANTASTIC FOUR

OUR LATEST RELEASES FOR YOUR DRINKING PLEASURE. THESE BRAND NEW 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…

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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 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 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. Magic Rock are so (deservedly) MOR BRAZ LA BIÈRE CIDRÉE Salty Kiss in fermentation vessel. concentrations of salt. proud of their version that they are going to release a canned version this coming APPLE BEER INFUSED WITH year, when their new brewery opens. FRENCH SEAWATER 4% (NO, REALLY) This is a fitting analogy of the journey that Gose has taken. Originally, its bottles Remainder of Salty Kiss weren’t even corked – the long, thin-neck transferred to the naturally developed a plug of yeast over BREWDOG AB:15 conditioning tank. time, as it actively rose up through the beer. Now, in 2015, a Yorkshire brewery SALT CARAMEL POPCORN is about to can a domestic Gose co- IMPERIAL ALE 12.8% created by Italian, Danish and English brewers. A little-known, single-town CONDITIONING TANK WINNER Scaled amount of salt added to Salty Kiss wins Gold in the beer style that almost became extinct CT in ratio that yielded most ‘Fruit Wheat Beer’ category is gaining a whole new audience. favourable test result. at the World Beer Cup.

HOP PROPAGANDA HOP PROPAGANDA – 10 – – 11 – ISSUE 32 ISSUE 32 the brewmaster is also a grand draught-only YuleSmith Imperial the naval airbase, any time now master, you can bet the beers Red Ale – is hugely popular, and they are set to move into a new produced by that brewery are their most recent collaboration facility, four times the size of the going to be as good as they can could be the ultimate in old. Inside, a custom-built 80bbl possibly make them. craftbait; Beer Geek Speedway brewhouse and bottling line is a coffee imperial oatmeal stout will give AleSmith the chance Given where they are, making brewed with Mikkeller (a mashup to double their output more or a 7% India Pale Ale is par for of Speedway Stout and Beer less immediately, and by the time the course – but the interesting Geek Brunch). Get queuing for everything is plumbed in and thing about AleSmith is that that one… the majority of their beers hark bolted down, that production ALESMITH BREWING COMPANY back to the styles of old Europe. 2015 is set to be a huge year for will have increased tenfold. In a Brown Ales, Scotch Ales and AleSmith. Not only are they (substantial) stroke, this solves ESB’s rub glass shoulders with celebrating the 20th anniversary the over-riding issue AleSmith 10% Belgian ales like the peerless of their founding, but they have been up against – meeting he state of has but the interesting thing is that breweries still occur. Take Horny Devil or AleSmith Grand are about to lay down a $9m the sheer demand for their long held an attraction throughout California, there are the small town of Miramar, for Cru. Their Christmas beer – the expansion. Still within earshot of beers. Tfor people seeking to concentrations of producers example, just north start new ventures. In fact, it’s – almost as if likeminded of . Located barely become renowned for becoming beermakers have pocketed a few miles apart, in a fairly the destination for those wanting together in small communities. astonishing broad semi-circle AND WITH BEERS LIKE THESE, IT’S EASY TO SEE WHY to totally start over. There must By far the most full-on of these abutting a US Navy airbase, be something about the pull of (in terms of numbers and hop you’ll find Ballast Point, Karl the coast; about that journey concentration) can be found Strauss, Green Flash, and – westwards, that focuses the pretty much at the bottom left- literally over the road from the attention when you get there. hand corner of the entire US of airfield – AleSmith Brewing Or, it could just be the amazing A – San Diego County. Company. weather. Either way, since the time of the first settlers and At first glance, AleSmith don’t through to the Gold Rush and typify the knowingly self- beyond, California has gained 2015 IS SET TO BE confident reputation that other fame in America for being a place A HUGE YEAR FOR of their State-mates possess. where things happen. And that, ‘The AleSmith Story’ biography page of their website consists of course, applies just as readily ALESMITH… of only seventy-four words, to brewing. ALESMITH X HORNY DEVIL ANVIL ESB SPEEDWAY STOUT for example, spread over three EXTRA PALE ALE BELGIAN STRONG ALE AMBER ALE/ESB IMPERIAL STOUT The Brewers’ Association listed The ‘Craft Beer Capital of short sentences. AleSmith A shimmering hit of A refined classic, brewed AleSmith’s flagship and Is this the best imperial 381 Californian breweries in America’ is home to a quarter don’t do loud and brash; what Californian pine with Trappist yeast and debut beer, a coppery stout in California? It and citrus. coriander seeds. caramel hop-led bitter. could well be… 2013 – although that number has of that Californian total – over they do instead – and what surely swelled over the 400 mark 100 breweries – in an area of just they excel at – is balance and by now (US brewery numbers over 4,000m2. A brewery every complexity. Their owner, Peter Zien, is a BJCP “Grand Master 5.9% 5.5% being out of date almost as soon 40 miles? Sounds good to us. 11.0% 12.0% as they are published). That’s Even with that density, though, level 1” beer judge (the only one fair enough – it’s a big state – clusters of scene-leading craft in San Diego County). When

HOP PROPAGANDA HOP PROPAGANDA – 12 – – 13 – ISSUE 32 ISSUE 32 BEER STICKS & PUNK IPA COPPA & FIVE AM RED ALE

Here is a classic pairing! We’ve been serving Five AM is just exceptional with pork. It’s beer sticks in our bars for a few years now and a complex beer, but it’s got really delicious they are hugely popular with beer lovers! Punk fruityness that is really great with piggy cuts. has the ideal level of carbonation and bitterness As coppa is a strong cut with bold, intense ENJOYING AN INCREDIBLE BEER IS A TREAT AND AN EXPERIENCE IN ITSELF, AND to cleanse the palate between bites, and it’ll meatiness, Five AM can stand up to as it’s got ONE WE ACTIVELY SEEK OUT ON A DAILY BASIS! BUT PAIR THE RIGHT BEER WITH cut through the saltiness of the beef. The meat plenty of body and flavour without overpowering is seasoned with a little chilli and pepper, which the meat. There is also a lovely chewy sweetness THE PERFECT MEAT AND YOU CAN CREATE AN ENTIRELY NEW WAY TO ENJOY SAID is the ultimate buddy for Punk as our flagship to Five AM, which provides a good balance for IPA is a best friend for spiciness! that sinewy, muscular nature of the meat. Long BEER THAT WILL EVOLVE THE FLAVOURS OF BOTH COMPONENTS MANIFOLD. finishes abound!

Beer schools have been popular events in all BrewDog bars since their inception; learning about the brewing process whilst enjoying a few hoppy delights is the ideal way to spend an evening in our books! But we’re stepping up this concept with a new facet. One that is decidedly meaty! This year, BrewDog Clapham Junction will begin a series of six hosted beer & meat school sessions with our awesome friends Meat School. Each session will be themed, so you can pick and choose which kinda beery, meaty morsels you fancy sampling, and they will run one per month January to June. Half will be hosted in BrewDog Clapham Junction and the others in Meat School’s venue in Borough Market. There are plenty of different themes with which to acquaint your tastebuds! 4 25 29 3 24 MARCH MARCH APRIL JUNE JUNE 7:00-9:00PM 7:30-9:30PM 7:00-9:00PM 7:30-9:30PM 7:00-9:00PM

PORK SMOKED BEEF BOOZY LONDON BLOOD, WINE AND CHOCOLATE SEAWEED & CIDER SALAMI Borough Market BrewDog Clapham Borough Market BrewDog Clapham Borough Market An homage to all Junction Spring isn’t just for Junction Everything from CHORIZO & BRIXTON PORTER & THIS. IS. LAGER. wonders porcine Mutton, chorizo, lamb Cured meats within the M25 lardo – all smoked which have liaised Brixton has a deliciously roasty coffee/chocolate This. Is. Lager. has a lovely, refreshing crispness with alcohol sweetness that will offset the iron-y flavour of and lightness; it’s quite zingy and zippy and a bit the meat. The wine element adds a very subtle citrusy, which marries with that cider sharpness, dark, red fruit character which is reflected and and the delicate salty seaweed is cleansed on TICKETS FOR ALL THE ABOVE EVENTS ARE £25 AND AVAILABLE FROM balanced in Brixton Porter, and there is an overall the palate from the clean, bubbly lager. This. Is. earthy tone to both the beer and meat that Lager has also got a bright, light hoppiness, which WWW.MEATSCHOOL.CO.UK/COURSES complement one another beautifully. offers some piney aromas that fit pleasantly with overall flavour of the meat!

HOP PROPAGANDA HOP PROPAGANDA – 14 – – 15 – ISSUE 32 ISSUE 32 TRUCK NORRIS THE STIG HAS NO DON’T DRIVE REVERSE GEAR. TRUCK THE WORLD NORRIS BACKS UP

TRUCK NORRIS CAN DO A HILL- START ON MOUNT EVEREST

BEFORE TRUCK NORRIS, THE HARD SHOULDER WAS JUST A SHOULDER

‘WE BUY ANY CAR’ HAD TO MAKE AN EXCEPTION FOR TRUCK NORRIS

TRUCK NORRIS HAS NO HANDBRAKE – HE PARKS AND THEN DARES THE GROUND TO MOVE

TRUCK NORRIS CAN DO A THREE- POINT TURN IN ONE POINT

TRUCK NORRIS DOESN’T HAVE FULL BEAM, HE JUST GLARES

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HOP PROPAGANDA HOP PROPAGANDA – 16 – – 17 – ISSUE 32 ISSUE 32 TAKEN A BEER PIC GOOD ENOUGH TO FEATURE ON THE CENTRE PAGES OF HOP PROPAGANDA? EMAIL A HIGH-RES COPY TO [email protected] AND FIND OUT! TABLE SERVICE

If you’ve secured that comfy booth and can’t face the three-yard trip to the bar counter, all of our UK bars now offer table service! Sit tight, and you’ll be able to get that same fantastic assistance without having to take your eye off that pressing game of Kerplunk. Just look out for our custom-uniformed table staff and give them a wave. 1

PUSH FOR SERVICE 3 If you happen to be drinking in BrewDog Liverpool, and are wondering what the utilitarian grey button at the far end of each booth is for, then wonder no 2 longer! Assuming you haven’t already succumbed to temptation and found out already, they are ‘push for service’ buttons, so you don’t even need to wave – we’ll know when to head over and take your order!

4 FROSTED MALT

From fingerfood-fond Franconia, we can announce a very special limited-edition treat – Weyermann candy malt. Yes, those crafty Germans have only gone and added a frosted coating to their delectable air-dried barley. The result? Whilst sipping a beer, you can chew on the very backbone of its construction – and in the process pair sweet, malty goodness with…well, sweet, malty goodness.

DESIGNATED DRIVER DISCOUNT

To reward those who make the kind sacrifice and nominate themselves (or are nominated by others) as designated drivers, we are offering 15% WE’RE FULLY AWARE OF THE PASSING OF THE SEASONS HERE AT BREWDOG, AND HAVE – AS EVER off appropriate drinks in our UK BrewDog bars. If you’ve got your car keys at the bar and are ordering – BEEN HARD AT WORK PUTTING IN PLACE PROGRESSIVE IMPROVEMENTS ACROSS OUR BARS. a cola, coffee or our world-famous 0.5% Nanny THE FOLLOWING IS A RUN-DOWN OF THOSE LATEST DEVELOPMENTS, DESIGNED TO MAKE YOUR VISIT State, our staff will be more than happy to subtract TO ONE OF OUR BARS AS GOOD AN EXPERIENCE AS WE CAN POSSIBLY MAKE IT. 15% off the price of your chosen beverage. 4 WEEKS To get the paperwork sorted and brewing operations officially approved.

NORMALLY I KEEP THE BLINDS CLOSED, PARTICULARLY IF WE’RE HAVING PROBLEMS WITH THE LANDLORD.

There are more breweries in the UK now than at any time in recent memory, and as ONE LORRY An articulated Dutch lorry the numbers continue to rise, their nature appears in the street. is fragmenting. No longer the traditional model – large-scale, regional family breweries, with a small undercurrent of microbreweries EVERY NEW BREWER HAS THAT ONE PARTICULAR MOMENT WHEN IT ALL competing in specific local markets. The rise of contract-brewing led to a number of SUDDENLY SEEMS VERY REAL. THAT NO-TURNING-BACK, THIS-IS-ACTUALLY- new producers appearing, as ‘gypsy brewing’ removed the need for expensive kit and HAPPENING EVENT WHEN THE REALISATION HITS THAT THEY HAVE ACTUALLY buildings. But now, we have the Carbon Smith BECOME A FULLY FUNCTIONING, WORKING BREWERY. model – the rise of the bedroom brewery. Ollie has a sixty litre capacity brewkit in his flat, located in a hall cupboard. Vented out of the kitchen window, the product of each brewday is then fermented and conditioned in his room; seven plastic FV’s sit in a neat 30 KEGS semi-circle around the edges of his bed, Thirty kegs delivered with a tarpaulin covering the carpet. So far, to start brewing. OR MANY, THIS MOMENT For Ollie Smith, his moment Ollie is one half of Carbon Smith so homebrew. But the twist is this – it’s a legal, OCCURS WHEN THE probably occurred when he Brewing Company; and they – commercial brewery. Carbon Smith are fully FDEBUT BEER GOES ON looked down on an articulated and others like them – are at the registered and licensed; with the Council, SALE; AS THAT ANXIOUSLY- lorry in his quiet street; the forefront of what could be (pun and with HMRC. AWAITED INITIAL PINT IS driver trying (and failing) to find intended) a small revolution in SERVED. FOR OTHERS, IT’S the expected full-scale brewery British brewing. By operating on such a small scale, WHEN THE CRANE WINCHES on the long curve of Edinburgh Ollie can produce, and sell, his beers almost THE FIRST BRUSHED METAL tenements. Having driven from immediately. It took just four weeks to get the BREWING VESSEL INTO the Netherlands, the man was paperwork sorted and brewing operations PLACE, BARELY CREEPING understandably surprised to officially approved. Nobody from HMRC ever THROUGH THE CLEARANCE discover the final destination I DIDN’T HAVE TO GO visited the flat. With their tiny footprint, IN THE SOON-TO-BE- for his shipment of key-kegs was and fan-dispersed outflow, Ollie contends LESS-EMPTY WAREHOUSE. not to be an industrial unit on CONTRACT BREWING, I WENT you wouldn’t even know they were there. the edge of town, but a fourth- STRAIGHT IN. I DIDN’T HAVE Well, until an articulated Dutch lorry appears floor flat in a row of historic in the street, that is (it took Ollie over an TO GET INTO DEBT WITH 94 STEPS Victorian housing. hour to laboriously carry the thirty kegs up It took Ollie over an hour UNPROVEN RECIPES. ninety-four stairs). to carry the kegs upstairs.

HOP PROPAGANDA HOP PROPAGANDA – 22 – – 23 – ISSUE 32 ISSUE 32 Just as contract or ‘gypsy’ brewing removed one major hurdle for prospective new beermakers – the lack of a brewery – what bedroom nanobrewing is doing is removing the other – the lack of money. By producing and selling small-batch beer (each brew fills only two key-kegs) Ollie’s overheads are so low that once the kit is paid for, he’s pretty much broken even. And there’s no anxious wait to see how someone else has interpreted your recipe, whether any of their flaws have been incorporated onto your idea. Of course, at this scale there are fundamental differences – for one thing, breweries like Carbon Smith and others such as Cumbernauld’s Lawman Brew Co will only make money very slowly. But that’s not what drives ventures like these. They are operated by serious, committed brewers who aspire to having their own fully commercial kit; at the moment the goal is simply to get their names out there. Getting the jump on others by creating a following first, before taking on the financial burden of an enormous brewery; this is the other main difference of the bedroom brewer. It’s the beer-making equivalent of e-publishing, or musicians uploading their work to the internet. It creates a demand and means when you eventually have the money, or the capacity, to scale up, the market already exists for your products. There’s nothing worse than getting there and nobody knowing who you are, after all. The other thing it gives is one that many prospective brewers appreciate – total control. As Ollie puts it, if something goes wrong with a batch, it only costs him ‘about twenty quid’.

IF WE WERE TO STOP NOW WE’D HAVE £300 IN THE BANK. WE COULD GO AND HAVE A NICE NIGHT OUT AND THEN WE’D HAVE A LOVELY HOMEBREW KIT.

But there must be limitations from the four brewdays he all the necessary licences to to selling beer brewed in your conducts per week. produce and legally sell his beer. bedroom? Only one, according This difference is fundamental – to him – controlling fermentation With a rose petal pale ale and and yet, easily achievable. temperature. Despite a cool, a cardamom chocolate stout north-facing room, it can get a produced recently, clearly Ollie So why don’t more homebrewers little warm in summer for the is revelling in the freedom which do this? It’s a question Ollie beer to condition adequately bedroom brewing exerts. But the isn’t sure how to answer. (he adds heating elements to thing is, when you boil it down, But then, he doesn’t have to – alleviate the opposite problem in what he is doing is no different to he’s already ahead of the game. winter). Temperature regulation what beer-mad men and women To every other homebrewer is clearly of prime concern are doing in their kitchens who stands there, watching their when you have – by Ollie’s own and garages up and down the mash tun ticking over, and idly admission – over half a ton of country. The only difference thinking about one day owning beer conditioning in there, is that as Carbon Smith he has their own brewery? Maybe you applied for, and been granted, already do…

HOP PROPAGANDA HOP PROPAGANDA – 24 – – 25 – ISSUE 32 ISSUE 32 WE KNOW HOW IT IS: THERE’S JUST SO MUCH GREAT BEER OUT THERE AT THE MOMENT, IT CAN BE PRETTY MUCH IMPOSSIBLE TO TAKE IT ALL IN. TAKE THESE TWO STUNNING NEW RELEASES FROM THE BUXTON BREWERY; ONE DESERVES TO BE DRUNK AS SOON AS YOU CAN GET HOLD OF IT, WHILST THE OTHER LENDS ITSELF PERFECTLY TO A SPOT OF GENTLE CELLARING.

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BATTLE HORSE (11.1%) A celebratory beer, Battle Horse was the one-hundredth brew produced on Buxton’s new brewhouse. And like the best celebrations, it’s one to be enjoyed immediately, in the best mood possible. A charging riot of grapefruit and pine, with a IT DOESN’T MATTER HOW MUCH OF A COCKY KID YOU WERE, GOING INTO PUBS WAS A NERVY long, earthy chocolate bitterness, it’s yet another winner. MOMENT. IT’S BECAUSE YOU WERE STEPPING INTO A DIFFERENT WORLD, UNSEEN THOUGH THOSE Any age on Battle Horse will soften out the edges – but OPAQUE GLASS DOORS. YOUR HAND PRESSED NERVOUSLY AGAINST THE HANDLE, YOUTHFUL there’s plenty of warming alcohol there already to carry the beer right from this very minute. Black IPA’s can age IMAGINATION CONJURING IMAGES OF WHO OR WHAT WAS BEHIND THE ENTRANCE TO THE RED LION. well, but to fully reflect the brewers’ intended balance of citrus to roast, they need to be consumed as soon as possible. Well, take your coat off at least, maybe. NEANDERTHAL LANDLORD WITH AN OBSESSION FOR ATTACK ALSATIANS. The First Time is our new series revolving around YOUR HEADMASTER AND OTHER A the many moments that being a beer drinker flag TEACHERS, HAVING SLIPPED AWAY FOR A up. Do you remember your First Time being served QUICK BOOZING SESSION. YOUR DAD AND at a bar? What was it like – and what did you order? HIS MATES, READY TO CATCH YOU. Tell us your stories via email or Twitter below – and That was it, what the fear equated to. The thought also if you’d like to be included in Issue 33, we’ll be that what you were doing was wrong. Even when featuring an oft-related question... it wasn’t, and you had the newly-acquired piece DO YOU REMEMBER YOUR FIRST HANGOVER? DRINK THIS NEXT of plastic or shakingly-proffered bit of paper to HERE’S HOW TO LET US KNOW! prove it. It’s not like you were French and had been ANGLOMANIA (10.3%) sipping watered down Pinot Noir with your croque Barley wines, on the other hand, can only blossom monsieur for the last ten years. This was an entirely HOPPROPAGANDA when given the benefit of several months. Anglomania different scenario. 18, and the First Time you get was a collaboration between Buxton and Evil Twin, and served in a pub. [email protected] yields a fairly hefty lick of sweet, sticky fruit (mango, Do you remember what that was like? mostly), leaving it – like all good hop-forward barley wines – on the verges of double IPA territory. The eyes that you felt, as you pushed the door open (whether they were actually on you or As such, if you can stand to let it wait for a few months, this not). The realisation that there was no going beer will be even better. The hop heights will have been back – turning tail now would imprint your face replaced with a wonderfully rounded deepness of character as into the minds of the bar staff for the next ten the sweet caramel from the malt bill becomes more prominent. years. So, head down and start the long walk, as So, whilst you’re enjoying your Battle Horse, pick a quiet place if condemned, to the bar. And then, those fateful for Anglomania, and forget all about it… four words, stammered out quickly in your reedy voice. “Pint of lager, please.”

HOP PROPAGANDA HOP PROPAGANDA – 26 – – 27 – ISSUE 32 ISSUE 32 LET’S TAKE A CLOSER LOOK AT A COUPLE OF OUR DARK-HUED BEERS, AND SEE HOW THESE ENGLISH HOPS COME ACROSS ON THE FLAVOUR PROFILE OF EACH OF THEM...

COCOA PSYCHO DOGMA

HEY MAY NOT MAKE and demand, but also due to “English hops are unsung heroes. THE SAME HEADLINES the sheer risk associated with We use them mostly in dark beers TAS THEIR CITRUS- cultivating hops in England. as the spicy/earthy characteristics POUNDING US COUSINS, offer up a subtle balance while OR THE VINOUS WONDERS Disease and weather took a letting the malt bill shine through. FROM THE ANTIPODES, heavy toll, with sometimes BUT THAT DOESN’T MAKE entire yields being lost to Cocoa Psycho is a great example; HOME-GROWN HOPS ANY mildew or inclement summers. As Starky says, although our powerhouse of First Gold was the world’s first commercial stick some of the big C’s in there a Russian Imperial Stout has a lot going on hedgerow hop, and it is also hugely versatile. LESS SPECIAL. OR DOES IT? As technology and husbandry [Cascade, Centennial, Columbus] improved, these risks were elsewhere, the English hops Fuggles and What we like about it, specifically, is that it According to the British Hop mitigated slightly, but it wasn’t and you would end up with a beer Goldings act as a counterpoint. Classic aroma gives beers a sharp, bitter citrus background Association – and they should until the 1980’s that the with far too much going on, it will hops, on the final taste their low alpha acid but without utterly dominating like the levels provide an earthy, slightly spicy flavour American citrus-bombs such as Cascade or know – Kent was the first part development of hedgerow be too complex which would just that works against – in a good way – the rich Citra (not that there’s anything wrong with that, of England where hops were hops offered some degree of be static in your mouth. additions from the vanilla and cacao nibs. either). In Dogma, we pair First Gold with Saaz. grown in the British Isles, protection to the flowers as Cocoa Psycho also contains crushed coffee English and Noble hops make for a fairly unusual after they were imported from opposed to airy, spindly bines Old World IPA is another – beans, smoked malt and roasted barley combination in a Wee Heavy – but then, Flanders at the end of the 15th that reached twice as high off that was a beauty loaded with Century. The sole reason for (amongst other things), so the English hops are Dogma is a fairly unique beer. As the complex the ground. First Gold and Bramling X. When really required to blend everything together; malt bill comes to the fore, the foundation laid their use in brewing was as a that was fresh it had a fantastic preservative; the bitter flavours to act as a perfect backdrop. by First Gold really begins to pay off. dark Haribo beak*, a real stand they imparted were merely out IPA in my opinion.” coincidental, and one that at first wasn’t exactly appreciated. ENGLISH HOPS ARE * This must be a specialist UNSUNG HEROES. brewing term Within fifty years though, hop cultivation had spread However, this advance outwards from Kent and was coincided with the peak (or becoming far more prevalent trough) of the lager boom, – and the reason for this was meaning fewer and fewer home- of recipes and still not be pure and simple: money. An grown hops were required. English hops might not hit the in our book. They remain one of acre of hops could be sold for Since then, though, they have flavour or aroma heights of their the fundamentals in the armoury overwhelmed. They might be a higher price than the output made something of a comeback. high-alpha equivalents from of any brewer or homebrewer. hard to grow, but hop farms have of fifty acres of arable land. Our Starky is on hand to explain other growing regions of the Classic combinations can be stuck by them; and that in itself This was partly down to supply why he thinks this is so… world, but that doesn’t matter deployed in the most full-on proves their worth.

HOP PROPAGANDA HOP PROPAGANDA – 28 – – 29 – ISSUE 32 ISSUE 32 ‘LA ROSSA’, WE ARE HERE FOR YOU! THE ITALIAN CRAFT BEER SCENE IS IN SUCH A VIBRANT PLACE AT THE MOMENT, AND WE ARE PROUD TO BE ABLE TO SAY OUR SECOND BREWDOG BAR IN THAT THIRSTY COUNTRY IS OPEN FOR BUSINESS. FOLLOWING IN THE HEELS OF BREWDOG FIRENZE, IN NOVEMBER WE THREW THE BREWDOG BOLOGNA DOORS OPEN TO BREWDOG BOLOGNA! VIA SAN VALENTINO 2F 40122 BOLOGNA ITALY After a long process of searching for the perfect location in this medieval city, we thought we’d found it – but then an even better site revealed itself on the opposite corner! The bar is located at via San Valentino 2F, 40122 Bologna, and has sixteen tap lines, pouring craft beer from BrewDog, and specially curated guest breweries from Italy and the rest of the world. Being in Italy, the bar also serves a range of charcuterie; classic selections of the freshest meats and cheeses from the amazing local suppliers of Emilia-Romagna, along with sandwiches and a full vegan/vegetarian menu. Manager Davide and his hand- picked team are there to look after you!

BOLOGNA! SAY CIAO!

HOP PROPAGANDA HOP PROPAGANDA – 30 – – 31 – ISSUE 32 ISSUE 32 Through a combination of new techniques and Emil Christian Hasen isolates a palter malts, the first pure cell of yeast. Golden Pilsner was created in the Czech This revolutionised brewing. Ancient Chinese Republic. Who knows what course it may villagers have taken without Emil’s hard This set a new standard start brewing work. If we could send him a Specific archaeological evidence in beers and quickly finds that ancient Mesopotamians fermented case of Punk IPA through a time took Europe by machine we would, but that were enjoying beer as far back as alcoholic drinks Prohibition put storm. might create a paradox and 6,000 years ago. on a small and in place in USA undo all his hard work. Tonight we’re going to party like indiviual scale. The East India Trading banning the it’s BC 3,999! And so our Company approach Samuel sale, production, journey begins! Allsopp to begin brewing an importation and India Ale. transportation of The purity of the Burton alcoholic beverages. water increased the quality BOOO! and popularity of the beer being shipped to India. This gave birth to the An ancient dominance of Burton IPAs. Prohibition Mesopotamian tablet, lifted after ‘Hymm to Ninkasi’ is FDR runs written. on an anti- prohibition The real King Midas – This poem to the platform in the not the golden bloke goddess of beer is the The first ever 1932 election. – is buried with beer. oldest surviving beer First written canned beer is sold recipe. Big props to commercially in the YAY! 2,700 years or so mention of porter. Ninkasi for holding the The first Oktoberfest USA by Gottfried later, Dogfish Head Porters became fort for so long. As well is held to celebrate Krueger Brewing brew ‘Midas Touch’ so huge in 18th as taking the time to the marriage of Crown Company. using the ingredients (as the poem states) century London Prince Ludwig and that were found Glad this idea “bake the beerbread that one Princess Therese of in the vessel in his wasn’t canned at in the big oven.” visitor described Saxe-Hildburghausen. tomb. I think we it as, “the universal an early stage... all agree that beer cordial of the populace.” Sehr gut! *tumbleweed* would be as good a companion as any in the afterlife!

The first recorded use of hops in brewing beer is set down by Abbot Adalhard. Alexander Nowell The Bavarian Purity Law is figures out that You sir, were a hop, skip and jump passed, stating beer in the The world’s oldest ahead of us all. Nice one Double A! ale stored in cork continuously operating duke of Bavaria’s realm could sealed glass bottles only contain 3 ingredients: brewery – the lasts for longer. Anchor brews Liberty Ale; the first Barley, Hops and Water. WEIHENSTEPHAN This is the first in a new wave of hoppy craft ales. The dynamics of yeast in ABBEY BREWERY written record The forefather for the liberation – obtains a brewing fermentation were still a we have of someone BREWDOG WAS BORN. from mediocre beer. licensing from crazy mystery at this point. bottling beer. the City of Freising. VIVA LA CRAFT BEER REVOLUTION! LOOK OUT FOR IT, COMING IN APRIL

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