Scotland’s largest independent brewery and pioneer of the UK craft beer scene, BrewDog is hosting its second annual nationwide craft beer festival on Saturday 25 October, unveiling 16 unique collaboration brews made with the UK’s best craft beer breweries.
- Following its successful launch in 2013, this year’s ‘CollabFest’ will be bigger and better, showcasing the most exciting and innovative breweries in the UK, such as Five Point, Brodie’s and Pressure Drop.
- To instigate the project, teams from each of BrewDog’s 16 participating bars were tasked with joining forces with a local craft brewery to create a limited edition collaboration beer.
- BrewDog bar staff worked directly with their partner brewery on every aspect of the process from selecting ingredients, to bottling and naming the signature brew.
- All 16 limited edition beers will be tapped simultaneously during the festival and served in all 16 UK BrewDog bars while stocks last.
- At 6pm, each bar will also be hosting a ‘Meet the Brewer’ event with its CollabFest partner brewery.
- The now-legendary, annual ‘CollabFest’ launched in October 2013, with BrewDog’s then 11 bars creating brews with local brewers.
- Since then, the maverick brewery has opened a further five bars in Cardiff, Dundee, Clapham Junction, Shepherd’s Bush and Sheffield.
- BrewDog’s previous collaboration exploits include beers brewed with iconic craft breweries from all around the world including Mikkeller, Stone, Evil Twin and Oskar Blues.
- Read about the event in detail at the BrewDog blog.
James Watt, co-founder at BrewDog commented:
“CollabFest is back with a vengeance. Never before have so many collaboration beers been unveiled by one brewery at one time anywhere in the world. This mammoth beer feast is unifying the awesome breweries that are redefining the UK beer scene. From British brewing powerhouses to young mavericks bursting onto the scene, CollabFest will showcase the ingenuity and creativity of the greatest brewers this country has to offer.”
The full list of collaboration breweries:
- BrewDog Aberdeen & Cromarty Brewing Co
- BrewDog Birmingham & Quantum
- BrewDog Bristol & Wild Beer Co
- BrewDog Camden & Pressure Drop
- BrewDog Cardiff & Celt Experience
- BrewDog Clapham Junction & Brodie’s
- BrewDog Dundee & Alechemy
- BrewDog Edinburgh & Tempest Brewing Co
- BrewDog Glasgow & Fyne Ales
- BrewDog Leeds & Ilkley Brewery
- BrewDog Manchester & Tickety Brew
- BrewDog Newcastle & Tyne Bank
- BrewDog Nottingham & Buxton Brewery
- BrewDog Sheffield & Red Willow
- BrewDog Shepherd’s Bush & Lovibonds
- BrewDog Shoreditch & Five Points