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BrewDog Bar Ireland

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  • #2
    limnam
    Registered Users Posts: 9,152 ✭✭✭limnam


    irish_goat wrote: »
    Brewdog now "actively hunting" for a Dublin location.

    https://www.brewdog.com/lowdown/blog/cross-border-traffic

    I could only be more excited if it was Cork. :pac:


  • #3
    L1011
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    irish_goat wrote: »
    Brewdog now "actively hunting" for a Dublin location.

    https://www.brewdog.com/lowdown/blog/cross-border-traffic

    Staff in Leeds claimed that was the case last November. I suspect their usual venue size (small) coupled with the value of a licence here (far too high) could make it rather hard.

    I did actually suggest Cork as somewhere that might (I don't know the market for pubs there...) be cheaper and would still have a decent audience. However, I doubt a barman is going to be taking notes for HQ off a random Irish lad who's trying to try every tap in the bar in the two hours before closing!


  • #4
    irish_goat
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    L1011 wrote: »
    Staff in Leeds claimed that was the case last November. I suspect their usual venue size (small) coupled with the value of a licence here (far too high) could make it rather hard.

    I did actually suggest Cork as somewhere that might (I don't know the market for pubs there...) be cheaper and would still have a decent audience. However, I doubt a barman is going to be taking notes for HQ off a random Irish lad who's trying to try every tap in the bar in the two hours before closing!

    Yeah, Dublin has been mentioned in passing a good few times, although this is the first time it's been put down officially.

    They have an email you can send potential bar locations to and they offer £1,000 if they go for it. Might work slightly better than bending a bartender's ear. :P


  • #5
    L1011
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    irish_goat wrote: »
    Yeah, Dublin has been mentioned in passing a good few times, although this is the first time it's been put down officially.

    They have an email you can send potential bar locations to and they offer £1,000 if they go for it. Might work slightly better than bending a bartender's ear. :P

    I think they'd want more than "Cork would work well, its full of hipsters and students and stuff..." to give me grand. Unfortunately!

    Leeds pub is a great venue, but like most of them, sodding tiny.


  • #6
    Zaph
    Registered Users, Subscribers Posts: 47,268 ✭✭✭✭Zaph


    If they do open here I hope the pub is better than the Edinburgh one. It's the most uncomfortable pub I've ever been in, so bad in fact that we left after one drink.


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  • #7
    irish_goat
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    I found the Edinburgh one better than the Glasgow pub. The staff are nice but I felt like I was in a coffee shop rather than a bar.


  • #8
    BeerNut
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 11,774 Mod ✭✭✭✭BeerNut


    The Liverpool one is a good size (that's it pictured in the Dublin section of the blog post). Camden is ridiculously cramped.

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  • #9
    BaZmO*
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    The one in Manchester is an alright size from what I remember.


  • #10
    lk67
    Registered Users Posts: 477 ✭✭lk67


    Ye know it's not all about size ... right?


  • #11
    BeerNut
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 11,774 Mod ✭✭✭✭BeerNut


    It is when you're perched on a hard backless stool clinging to a tiny glass of expensive beer while trying to dodge some beardy's elbow.

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  • #12
    GLaDOS
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    My problem with the Edinburgh one was most of the seats were booths, which fill up very quickly, sometimes only with 2/3 people. Meant they place got very full very quickly.

    Much preferred the Glasgow one myself.

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  • #13
    irish_goat
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 5,760 Mod ✭✭✭✭irish_goat


    Edinburgh had a cute girl from Cork working there though. :pac:


  • #14
    lk67
    Registered Users Posts: 477 ✭✭lk67


    lk67 wrote: »
    Ye know it's not all about size ... right?

    I think I should have put a winky face on the end of that ...

    Here it is now.

    ;)


  • #15
    Lovely Bloke
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    BeerNut wrote: »
    some beardy

    OI!!!! :mad:


  • #16
    Effects
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    Looking forward to Brixton Porter on tap.


  • #17
    BeerNut
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    Effects wrote: »
    Looking forward to Brixton Porter on tap.
    They've stopped making it, in favour of Alice Porter. Though they have brought beers back from the dead in the past.

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  • #18
    Effects
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    Oh well! Had it on tap earlier on in the year over in London and haven't bought a bottle in a while so I guess I hadn't noticed. I'll have to try Alice Porter so.


  • #19
    squonk
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    The Shoreditch one surprised me in how small it was for that part of London. Good atmosphere though but it could get a bit crowded really.


  • #20
    youcancallmeal
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    Zaph wrote: »
    If they do open here I hope the pub is better than the Edinburgh one. It's the most uncomfortable pub I've ever been in, so bad in fact that we left after one drink.

    Same, was quite disappointed. I think I had built it up in my head as some sort of beer mecca before I arrived which didn't help.


  • #21
    sofireland
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    Well their bar guy was here for a few days so i think its fair to say they are actively looking.

    Doesnt have to be a licensed premises and id imagine licence cost no issue to a company with 30m turnover last year.


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  • #22
    Subcomandante Marcos
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    I'm guessing they'll go for smithfield/Stonybatter/the next target of gentrification?


  • #23
    irish_goat
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    Subcomandante Marcos wrote: »
    I'm guessing they'll go for smithfield/Stonybatter/the next target of gentrification?

    They try to aim for city centre locations with good footfall. Corner units preferred.


  • #24
    BeerNut
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    I reckon The Beerhouse would be an ideal choice, but they don't seem to be looking to convert existing pubs. I'd suggested Nash's on Kevin Street previously but there's an issue with the fire cert there.

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  • #25
    Flatzie_poo
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    BeerNut wrote: »
    while trying to dodge some beardy's elbow.
    Baldy Conscience wrote: »
    OI!!!! :mad:

    He said Beardy!! not Baldy!! :)


  • #26
    symbolic
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,243 ✭✭✭symbolic


    I'd welcome it anyway. Have enjoyed all the ones I've been in. Rotating tasty beers and nice food.

    Sign me up!


  • #27
    baron von something
    Registered Users Posts: 741 ✭✭✭baron von something


    Great news if it happens. Plus, brewdog seem to get a lot of beers that are hard to get anywhere else especially over here. I was a couple of days too late to Brewdog Camden (tiny bar) where Mikkeller was signing his new book and had a tap takeover


  • #28
    calnand
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    I fount the perfect place for them here in Cork, http://www.daft.ie/commercial/former-an-caman-inn-6-7-drawbridge-street-cork-city-centre-cork/226356/. I call dibs on one of the overhead apartments, the €1,000 should cover two months rent or one months beer.


  • #29
    poisonated
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    Was at the AGM in June and when they were doing a 'q and a' it was funny to see how many suggestions they got for new bars. Everyone wants a Brewdog pub in their city!


  • #30
    BeerNut
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    poisonated wrote: »
    Was at the AGM in June and when they were doing a 'q and a' it was funny to see how many suggestions they got for new bars. Everyone wants a Brewdog pub in their city!
    For the people depending on the bar discount to get a return on their investment, that's hardly surprising.

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  • #31
    senordingdong
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    Zaph wrote: »
    If they do open here I hope the pub is better than the Edinburgh one. It's the most uncomfortable pub I've ever been in, so bad in fact that we left after one drink.

    Just back from Edinburgh where I was really looking forward to visiting the brewdog bar, but it was very uninviting and uncomfortable.

    I too was expecting something better than what we're used to in Dublin, but the reverse was the fact and apparently that's the standard across the board.
    Hopefully they'll offer a decent bottledog facility.


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