No that’s not the number I drank – it’s the number of beers they had on Saturday for their collaboration festival at the Cardiff branch of the Scottish brewery.
For the second year running, we have teamed our UK fleet of bars up with amazing local breweries to brew the biggest en masse collaboration effort known to man! And on Saturday 25th October 2014, you will be able to sample their efforts across 16 UK BrewDog bars.
The stand-out beer was White Chocolate Stout let me repeat that White Chocolate Stout (far left in the photo below) – light in colour but so very tasty – I’m a massive fan of Chocolate stouts as it is but this also had great aroma and unique flavour – but this is now in my top 20.
another favourite was the (ok not biased for Welsh Beer) but the Home of the Fruitcakes (6%) Strawberry & raspberry saison from Celt Experience tasted like a thick fruit sorbet that had melted in the glass
the other one that grab me by the collar was the Lovibonds Purple Rain.
so it looks like Brewdog has got me more into “pudding beer” which can’t be a bad thing.
Here is the full list
Aberdeen & Cromarty – Stoater Scotch Ale (7.5%) Scotch Ale w/ Oats, Brambles and Honey
Birmingham & Quantum Hop. Kettle. Black. (4.8%)
Hopfenschwarzweisse (Hoppy Black Wheat Beer)
Bristol & Wild Beer Co Rosa Canina (5.4%) Saison with rosehips and rosemary
Camden & Pressure Drop Syd Strong’s (7.1%) Black Rye IPA
Cardiff & Celt Experience Home of the Fruitcakes (6%) Strawberry & raspberry saison
Clapham Junction & Brodie’s Southside Zester (Livin La Vida Lime Juice) (3.7%) Lime Berlinerweisse
Dundee & Alechemy Smoked in History (5.2%) Smoked Porter
Edinburgh & Tempest False Provenance (6.8%) Borders Belgian Black ale
Glasgow & Fyne Ales SameWerking (5.1%) Rooibos Red Ale
Leeds & Ilkley Brewery Westwood Stout (6.5%) White Chocolate Stout
Manchester & Tickety Brew Coffee Wit (5.2%) Coffee-Infused Wheat Beer
Newcastle & Tyne Bank Amba Necta (6.5%) Honey and Apricot Amber Ale
Nottingham & Buxton Rough C’s (5%) Oatmeal Amber Lager
Sheffield & Red Willow Shut Up Meg (7%) IPA hopped and dry hopped with Simcoe & Citra
Shepherd’s Bush & Lovibonds Purple Rain (5.8%) Foraged Fruit Sour
Shoreditch & Five Points Smoke & Mirrors (7.8%) Smoked Porter