HELP! Get Brewdog's licence approved by Southampton council

I am very interested in signing your petition. However, before I proceed can you please provide evidence that you have not been an employee of the company in they last 3 years. Wages slips or bank statements showing an income paid in monthly from another employer should be sufficient. You can either post them up here or I can provide an email address via PM.

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I paid £4.95 for a pint of ‘craft beer’ in Brighton a couple of weeks ago. Hipster cunts.

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Ah.

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Depends whether it’s the ‘craft beer’ that the likes of Wetherspoons sell or the good stuff. I’d rather pay a fiver for a quality imperial stout/porter over £4 for a pint of pissy lager.

It was good stuff. (Camden Town Brewery)

Doesn’t really matter which way you cut it charging a fiver for a pint is rude.

£4 for a pint of pissy lager, fuck me where do you drink?

My local sells Ringwood Best for £3.40, Carling is the same price I think (never drink the stuff).

Well, when I don’t get to choose it tends to be with people from work or similar. Since we’re between Bedford Place/London Road, lager does cost that in most of the pubs/bars around here. Does my head in when I know what that gets you elsewhere.

Old Golden Hen, £1.25 per pint at Asda.

I’d pay a fiver for beer poured from roadkill.

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Originally posted by @ant

I don’t know how much you lot know about Brewdog, but basically they make kickass beers that knock the spots off your more generic brews. They’ve played a massive part in the rise of craft beer in the UK - and whether you’re into that scene or not, it’s been a **huge ** help to breweries nationwide. Almost 200 new ones have started up in the last year or so, meaning the industry’s not been in such rude health since the 30s - 40s. Not bad, considering we’re supposedly still in Recessionageddon.

Anyway… Brewdog’s bars are ace. Chilled, relaxed places to sup a premium brew and maybe play some board games or grab a decent bite to eat. They’ve been trying to secure a site in Southampton for some time and it appears they’ve finally found one - where Coco Rio is currently located, just off Bedford Place.

The kicker is that they need for the licence to be extended from a class A3 (restaurant) to a class A4 (bar). It means little difference in reality, but it seems some residents are worried about binge drinking and disturbances. This does **not ** match my experience of Brewdog or any of its patrons that I’ve ever met.

There’s a huge lack of craft beer establishments in Southampton. Compared to Brighton, Bournemouth and even bloody Portsmouth, we’re sorely lacking. There’s The Butcher’s Hook but it’s out in Bitterne. Oh and The Dancing Man, though that’s right down by Town Quay, and their guest beers are standard real ale fare.

It’d be a real boon for Upper Banister Road (which is seriously in need of regeneration) and hopefully lend a bit of class to an area dominated by ‘cheap and cheerful’ bars.

Here’s the LINK to the planning permission.

By my reckoning it takes about 3 minutes to register and lend support (you need to be a resident of Southampton I think). You don’t even need to write anything - you can simply select ‘support’ and leave the comments field empty.

Please do!

The use of the word “boon” by the OP, whom I’m assuming is under the age of 90, negates the chance of any support from me.

My own 5.5% best bitter, 25p per pint at my place.

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Do you do create your own pizzas and cheap school clothes too?

Don’t like pizza much, and I left school some time ago.

Don’t knock decent beer till you’ve tried it - we’re not talking kits and Tate & Lyle granulated here.

Originally posted by @JBoy

The use of the word “boon” by the OP, whom I’m assuming is under the age of 90, negates the chance of any support from me.

Hi ho silver.

Having lived in Bedford place I get why some residents are worried re more bars. But having been to Brewdog in London they shouldn’t be too worried. It is some of the other awful bars nearby that caused the issues when I lived there. But boy was it great for a night out.

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Originally posted by @Ex-Trader

Don’t knock decent beer till you’ve tried it - we’re not talking kits and Tate & Lyle granulated here.

Same here. I use imported British malt and hops. After the initial outlay the final product is insanely cheap, and better than most bottled bitter or IPA

Had to drink a few gallons of utter shit though, until I got the method down! :cool:

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Would love to have a go at this. How much did it cost/long did it take you to get a decent set up Ohio?

First, start with a cheap kit. Then you get to see if it’s something you really want to do.It probably won’t be great, but it gives you an idea of what you are letting yourself in for. Many people are happy to continue with using malt extracts which means that you can do the whole process in the kitchen, but still with very good results.

Pesronally, I never enjoyed much succes with extracts until I moved operations to the garage and used a steel keg for boiling on a propane gas burner. (Turkey frier)

After that, if you have really been bitten by the bug, then it’s a long and winding road into cobbling together a few items of imagitive invention. There are many ways to go with this.

My own set up consists of a stainless steel keg with the top cut off. This is powered by an electric element for boiling. I have a large cooler with a tap fitted for mashing the grain (Which I have milled with a grain mill attached to an electric motor) and then there are all kinds of options for fermenting, bottling, etc. I have an old fridge in the garage which I have set up for either warming or cooling the fermenting buckets depending on the time of year. I also use pumps and stuff just because I can.

It really is something that you can do very simply, or you can make it as complicated as you wish, depending on your personal level of OCD.

Have a look at this forum. www.homebrewtalk.com just take a peek one aspect at a time at the beginners section so you don’t get an overload of info. The people there are mostly cool and helpful, especially with newbies.

Edit: Oh yes, cost and time…I built up my own system probably over two years as I added stuff that I felt would suit me. It can be expensive to buy purpose made stuff, so many people make their own set up using the kind of things you will see on that site. It takes me about 8 hours to make 10 gallons of beer split between all the different processes. 5 hours for the mashing process being the biggest chunk. Yoyu will always seem to be spending some cash for a while, I have no clue how much I spent.

It’s more about the process and final product for me, but when it’s all set up, it’s hellish cheap! :cool:

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If I make my own is it a hobby rather than a drinking habit? (asking for a friend :wink:)

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Put it this way. After making a couple of hundered gallons of high ABV IPA while persuing my hobby, I eventually found the need to start brewing low ABV bitter (around 3.5% - 4%) Simply so that I could enjoy having both a fun hobby and a controllable drinking problem. :cool:

Actually, when you find that you can brew a low ABV beer that tastes like a 5% brew, you then feel like you have finally arrived! :slight_smile:

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