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Alex Conway left this review about BrewDog
BrewDog is the type of place you either love or hate, unfortunately I am the latter. the bar is set up a few steps and has hard wooden floors in one large square room with the bar running along the back wall. There are long bench style seats as well as a few normal tables and chairs. This is a big hipster joint so can get filled with a few stranger types who like to play video games but thats up to them. The annoying this is the attitude of the customers and bar staff who all seem to take a know it all self-righteous approach to beer that wares thin rather easily. for example my request for cask ale was met by a response of pity, then sarcasm then an in depth explanation of why keg beer is better, i nearly walked out right then. There are many keg BrewDog pumps on the bar all undifferentiated with the beers being shown on a large illuminated screen behind the bar. their beers are outrageously expensive which they constantly like to defend by explaining how "crafted" their beers are which is highly entertaining but i suppose it makes them feel better and makes their customers feel more important than us mere bitter drinkers even though they are being horrendously fleeced, oh what people will do to seem superior. I went for their flagship Punk IPA (£4.45) which was cold, fizzy and not much else. It did have a nice hop bite and dry aftertaste that I could easily drink more of but nothing i haven't had a thousand times before and a thousand times better in a good hoppy pale real ale. I am not saying it was bad, it was a nice refreshing drink but at £4.45 and all the spiel about what makes it superior really did not impress me. Credit were credit is due they have managed to market their product in such a way that the hipsters have lapped it up by way of them making their customers believe what that are getting is something completed new and unique. more the fool them I say, i wont be hurrying back.
On 16th March 2017
- rating: 6
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Will Larter left this review about BrewDog
We were in here recently on our "child friendly" pub crawl: my Nottingham-based friends treating their 14-month-old son to his first ever pub crawl. You're never too young to start. I was surprised to find this place included in the route, as we usually go to real ale pubs, but I approached it with what I hope was an open mind.
It was surprising to find an atmosphere redolent of school science laboratories. Less of a surprise to find very cold and incredibly fizzy beer being sold at inflated prices, as BrewDog's reputation is well known in beer drinking circles. As this was the fifth pub of a seven pub crawl, several of us were looking for something at the lower end of the strength spectrum, and plumped for a beer with the enticing name of Dead Pony Club, the only one available at under 4%. This was so cold and fizzy that it was actually impossible to taste it at first, but when it reached a drinkable temperature it soon became apparent to us all that it tasted foul. Not off or sour, just disgusting. Item 3 of the "manifesto" states "beer was never meant to be bland, tasteless and apathetic" - yes, indeed, but then neither was it ever meant to be cold and fizzy, and surely it's also meant to be a pleasurable drink?
There was a stencilled arrow next to the urinals, labelled "Fosters", which would normally raise a wry smile, but in this instance I just felt prompted to pour the remains of my beer in there too.
On 29th April 2013
- rating: 1
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Soup Dragon left this review about BrewDog
This is a fantastic V-shaped, now detached, Edwardian looking red brick building, with stone ashlar doorways, stone lintels and sills, with moulded cornices. There are modern BrewDog windows. As the exterior is impressive, so the interior is somewhat functional - an open room in plain brick, grey ceiling, wood floor, with metal ceiling support poles. The lighting looks like a display at B&Q and my old school science high tables and stools, with kegs as foot stools, are mixed with sofas and perimeter seats for the complete ensconcement experience. There is a games machine (XBOX kind of thing). There are no real pictures just a plethora of chalkboards (also taken from my old school?) with various information, such as beer choice, or poking fun at the staff etc. They do bar food. The service was excellent - with the guy being very knowledgable of their beer range and a few young blokes were in. I didn't see a TV and the music was mixed and a decent level. Beer; well, the BrewDog range - but samples were offered and i had a half of something, or other. Not really my decor and not the cheapest of drinks, but it isn't meant to be guzzled like there is no tomorrow. I would pop in for one again - and have to the Brummegem one.
On 23rd April 2013
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A B left this review about BrewDog
I've been to this pub several times and it never fails to impress. The best beer you will find in Nottingham, at extremely reasonable prices. Compare paying £3.90 for a great pint of Punk or Zeitgeist - the best black lager available in the UK IMO - to paying £4.60 for a pint of Peroni at other similar venues around the town.
The rocky music choice is great, and the atmosphere and ambience spot on. Whether you visit in the afternoon for a quiet board game and a few pints, or later in the evening when it gets very busy with the 25-35 crowd (although they have enough staff that the bar service is always quick and efficient), there are very few comparably pleasant and good value places to drink.
On 8th January 2013
- rating: 10
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Pub SignMan left this review about BrewDog
As the name suggests, this is the Brewdog brewery’s contribution to the Nottingham beer scene. Occupying a former factory building in the Lace Market district, the bar is a disappointingly bland affair, with painted floorboards, bare brick walls and high canteen style tables with high stool seating and some beer kegs beneath. Around the edge of the room there are some comfier padded benches and I also noticed a single sofa near the front door. Blackboards are everywhere in this place, detailing beers, bar snacks, tasting sessions, open mic nights and Brewdog merchandise, as well as introducing the staff and explaining the brewing process in simplified terms. There was a good soundtrack playing and some beer related books could be found behind some of the benches as well as a selection of board games. Each table had a ‘beer school’ pamphlet, which explains brewing techniques and may be of interest to some, and a copy of the ‘Brewdog manifesto’ which is a load of marketing nonsense designed to reassure customers that they are not drinking mass produced beer and that “Brewdog beers are the epitome of pure punk”.
Suffice to say, as with other Brewdog bars, there are no hand pumps, just several large unlabelled keg fonts. Obviously there is a handy blackboard to help you work out what’s available and on my visit the choice was from Proto 176, Zeitgeist, 5am Saint, Dogma, Libertine Black Ale, Hello my Name is Beastie, Hardcore IPA and the 18.2% Tokyo (£3.95 for a third).Four foreign keg beers were also available and included two from the Nogne O brewery. As you would expect, there is an extensive bottled beer selection and yet another blackboard listed some rather unappealing beer cocktails. With beers available in pints, halves and thirds, the pricing quickly becomes very confusing but you can rest assured that whatever you order won’t come cheaply. Not that this should be a surprise as point four in the aforementioned ten point Brewdog manifesto states “Brew fucking expensive beers”.
The Brewdog website for this bar says that it is “juxtaposed against miles of soulless, mega-brand pub chains”, which is frankly an insult to the city’s excellent beer scene and ignores the fact that Brewdog is now a chain itself with ten or so soulless bars dotted around the UK. I’m sure you can find some good beer in this place but you need to shut out all of the other guff that surrounds this place in order to enjoy it.
On 13th November 2012
- rating: 5
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Real Ale Ray left this review about BrewDog
Called in around 2pm and was expecting to see a good few people in here, but to our surprise the place was empty. I was informed it gets mobbed of an evening and weekends. There's a lot of for and against Brewdog, but to me I found the member of staff friendly and very knowledgable about their beers. Have to say I found their craft beers interesting. Ok the beers are keg, but still they do use the highest quality ingredients and the brewing does take more time, which does make them pricey. I did find each beer very different to the next so I wasn't getting bored. Some of their beers were very hoppy, which I liked. I tried Paradox Dura made with a single malt whiskey, Dead Pony Club, Dogma, Imperial Pilsner, Punk IPA, Stone IPA from the US and Tiger Tripel a Norweigen beer. Will defo return.
On 24th June 2012
- rating: 8
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Alan Winfield left this review about BrewDog
BrewDog is a new pub that is in an old building on the edge of the hockley area of central Nottingham.
Once inside there is a single room with a dark wood floor,the bar is to the right and there are three tall tables in the middle of the room with 6 uncomfortable looking stools either side of it,there is one leather settee where i sat and a few small stools around the sides of the pub.
There were 8 BrewDog pump type things on the bar but all these looked the same so i had to look at the blackboard behind the bar which confused me even more,the friendly barmaid explained that all the beers here are very expensive but they do give tasters and serve drinks in either a third, half or pint i had a drink of BrewDog 5 AM Saint at £1.50 for a third of a pint and i am glad i only had a third as this drink was far to carbonated for my liking.
There were snacks available Pork Pies at £5.00 a go and Scotch Eggs at £4.00 this is far too expensive for Nottingham.
I went in here at about 2.00 in the afternoon and there was only one other customer in which says it all.
If you like fizzy expensive beer then this place will be right up your street,i was'nt that impressed with this pub at all.
Pub visited 22/3/2012
On 22nd March 2012
- rating: 4
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