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• What an interesting debate! I'm no beer expert but I am a fan of small breweries with I interesting beers and a Brewdog fan in particular.
  My view is that Brewdog are the 'teenagers' of the brewing industry. Teenagers are meant to be a bit rebellious, challenge conventional thinking ,be a little disrespectful etc. They do this well and also us the approach to gain publicity. It was their challenge to authority approach which caught my attention and switched me on to trying their beers and to an extent made me a born again beer drinker. I'm now clearer on CAMRA policy. I used to believe they existed to champion against bland beer pushed by multi national industrial companies. The cask/keg debate puzzles me. Am I correct I. My understanding that CAMRA supports foreign beer served in kegs as that's their traditional method of dispensing beer? Help me out here. It would seem they should support good beer however it is dispensed to support the fight against blandness. Ah well I'll leave it to the experts. Btw is the Potterton brewery still on the cards. A job their would suit me fine lol
  
  Dave U11.06.2011
• Dan - I have to say that I found your attitude somewhat blinkered.
  Firstly, a fact check. Brewdog stopped supplying the Aberdeen beer festival 3 years ago - long before they started making keg beers.
  Secondly, I strongly suggest you speak to other brewers in the area, such as Rob James at Deeside, and Dave and Gary Metcalfe at Burnside. They are all very approachable and reasonable people - and VERY passionate about their beers, and may get you a slightly different perspective.
  And - may I suggest that you visit the actual Aberdeen Beer festival - there are some pretty interesting beers available there!
  Or would that amount of choice prove too confusing for you?
  
  Helge Nareid08.06.2011
• Stacey and Ian, Although you may be right about Bracken being truly behind the craft meat revolution... We at Brewdog will of course cater for the vegetarians among us.. prepare yourself for some scrumptious musa style veggie burgers!
  Kerry08.06.2011
• From a 20 year old Stella guzzling idiot to a 36 year old "Ale" drinking man via the local off licence onto CAMRA beer festivals onto Brewdog beers.
  
  My transformation is complete and the moral.........
  
  Both CAMRA and Brewdog change lives!
  
  Now lets all move on and drink good beer together!
  
  Matt08.06.2011
• Wow, i go out the country for a few days and it all kicks off!! im a shareholder and CAMRA member cos as most folk, i like great beer! Orkney Dark Island and 5 am Saint are tremendous is their own ways. Its a real shame that CAMRA and Brewdog canna get along cos the more concerted effort against the likes of tennents etc the better!!
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  liaobei08.06.2011
• It is superb when people miss the point entirely. Of course it's tongue in cheek. It was when they stuffed a beer inside a stoat, it was when they complained about themselves to the portman group, it was when they called a beer speedball, it was when they said tokyo would cure binge drinking.
  
  There was always a point behind it and the point here is that sometimes keg is just better, not to say cask isn't better for some beers too, but just sometimes SOMETIMES keg is better, and while CAMRA is a cask ale festival showcasing cask ales, this is a keg festival, showcasing kegged beers. It gives a lot of people the change to see the difference between the two, which is a good thing isn't it? And by having them over the same weekend it means memories won't be warped or changed.
  
  Now turn those frowns upside down AND GET HAPPY!
  Fezzles08.06.2011
• Stacy. As Bracken in his official capacity of Top Dog,(he's kind of a big deal you know), has final say on what goes on the BBQ I suspect there will be no vegetarian options. You would have to bribe him with vast quantities of beef for him to even consider this.
  Ian Prise07.06.2011
• Interesting and amusing debate. CAMRA coined the term Real Ale in the 70's and at that time that's what craft brewing produced. 40 years later things have moved on quite a bit. Craft brewers like Stone, Three Floyds, Mikkeller, BrewDog and the hundreds of other quality brewers out there have shown there is a real market and desire for craft keg beer.
  
  CAMRA's LocALE campaign is trying to stop the trend of local independent pubs closing. If that's a real aim then maybe sticking to it's "Real Ale" or nothing stance is not the best route to achieve this. BrewDog will have opened 5 pubs in the UK by the end of this year, all opened within a year. Aberdeen and Edinburgh are bustling every night.
  
  I love quality beer whether it comes in cask, keg, bottle or can. I think BrewDog has a point about where CAMRA is going. I'd like to see it champion craft brewing in all forms but that's a decision for it's committee and members, stay stuck in the 70's or champion all craft brewing.
  
  Whether you like it or not, Kegs and Cans are here to stay for quality Craft Brewing.
  Brian C07.06.2011
• Will there be canned beer at the Alternative Aberdeen Beer Festival?
  
  Oh and any vegetarian options on the BBQ?
  
  
  Stacey07.06.2011
• This festival sounds epic and I am a super excited craft beer loving mo-fo. Can't wait!
  
  It is not about cask v keg. It is about an awesome experience surrounding beer. Looking at the awesome agenda BrewDog seemed to have nailed this.
  Andy07.06.2011
• fits the differance between a keg an a cask ?is one wooden an one tin eh? fuck me min folks calm i heed eh!
  Roddy c07.06.2011
• It's possible for a superb keg beer to be better than a different 'cask' beer,. but IMHO, an ale will always be better cask (if in good condition,obviously!) than the same ale in a keg. It's a fact. I'm not convinced by arguments that keg is better than cask - it's utter rubbish. However, if there are problems with Brewdog keeping casks in their own pubs, I'd rather they stick to keg.
  sonicstrav07.06.2011
• False dichotomy - a brewer doesn't have to be "controversial" (read brash, rude, and generally obnoxious) to brew good, groundbreaking, interesting beer.
  
  
  Richard E Allelle07.06.2011
• It is amusing that there are people posting comments "bashing" brewdog on here.
  
  But would you rather have another brewery who is happy with their lot and does nothing other than brew the same old beers?
  
  Or a brewery who is ambitious and like to stir up a bit of controversey, have a bit of fun on the way and maybe even brew some well crafted, interesting beers?
  
  Nobody is perfect, and brewdog are far from it, but to me they are a welcome distraction from the more conventional breweries.
  
  By the way James et al, you're pretty slack with announcing the winners of your caption competitions! I demand to know! Haha
  Ed Beech07.06.2011
• Barm, yes at BrewDog we are known for being whiny cry babies.
  
  So much so, I spend most of my time posting comments on blogs of companies I don't like.
  
  Long live the cask ale revolution!
  
  James, BrewDog07.06.2011
• ...let me introduce my father, he is in fact bigger than your father.
  Gmanuk10107.06.2011
• Cheeky scamps? Whiny crybabies more like. You can't make a strategy out of insulting everyone else in the industry and then get all upset when the people you've wound up hit back. That makes no sense.
  Barm07.06.2011
• Brewdog make some truly great beers and those cheeky scamps at Brewdog are partial to winding a few people up now and again. It’s just their sense of humour (& good publicity!).
  
  At the end of the day good beer is good beer regardless of how it is dispensed. If you had a choice of cask, keg or bottled Fosters which would you go for? Not keen... though so.
  
  So the motto should be: Don’t limit yourself to one style or category of beer when there is a world of quality choice.
  
  Mark C07.06.2011
• It's hilarious that one of the derogatory terms chosen in the blog to denigrate standard lager is "fizzy", as if Brewdog keg is any less over-carbonated.
  
  It would have been possible in Edinburgh to drink a keg pint and a cask pint within about 2 minutes of each other, given the proximity of SRAF to the Cowgate bar, but Brewdog have denied drinkers that option.
  
  What's worse is that they accepted the order, and then reneged. What's worse still is that 2 of the beers were volunteered by Brewdog as they wanted to enter their beers into SIBA's cask competition (there goes the "keg is better" argument). I suspect that their failure to deliver is due more to poor inventory management than to any principles they may claim to have.
  
  This view can only be reinforced by Brewdog paying thousands of pounds to present cask beers at CAMRA's Great British Beer Festival. If they care so much about quality and refuse to compromise on it, then why produce cask at all?
  
  Brewdog are full of shit, and some people just can't wait to lap it up.
  Richard E Allelle07.06.2011
• It`s all kicking off here! I`m looking forward to great weekend of beer and music by splitting my time between the CAMRA Beer Festival at Pittodrie Stadium and the Alternative Beer Fest at Brewdog. I like cask beer and I like Brewdog beers. What could be better? And then you add some kick ass blues rock in the shape of the Krissy Matthews Band + Gerry Jablonski at The Blue Lamp on Friday at 8pm and a great weekend got even better. Can`t wait!
  Chris Simmonds07.06.2011
• People can stand where they want on CAMRA festivals, but I have worked the York one for the last two years where we have staff who know what they're doing and a better selection and variety of beers than I have ever seen in one place. I particularly like the 4 keg pumps devoted to Stone beers last year.
  
  Some of us can't make it up to Aberdeen for a weekend so if they are trying to not supply CAMRA festivals while showcasing really amazing beers at their own little festival, thats a real kick in the balls for people who have liked and supported them outside Scotland.
  
  Heres to hoping that the whole keg/cask this can be risen above of and they can just supply both markets.
  
  p.s. York festival 2009 Paradox Smokehead (In a cask no less) was the best of the 5 itterations of the beer I''ve tried.
  Luke07.06.2011
• "A brewery does and they alienated brewdog in the first place by disagreeing with how they believe their beer was best served."
  
  Oh God, not a disagreement! What an outrageous insult.
  
  PS, as President of a Real Ale Society it might be nice if you didn't make quite so many moronic sweeping statements. Just a thought.
  SF07.06.2011
• heh heh heh these comments are quite funny! lots of hate for no reason, nice n typical missing the point..love it.
  
  I've been to the beer fest (the camy one) for the last 4 years and will go again? why? because it's good fun with your friends to go and have a few different beers that can't be gotten elsewhere (you hearing me Blackfriars, prince of wales and the other fekkin monopoly held brewery places). and I am a regular in brew dog since the start, and have been to their events. I like both...some I dont like, christ life would be shit without variety eh?
  
  It's tongue in cheek advertising people..come now...wind ya necks in and have a beer.
  
  Calm down dear, it's only beer....
  
  now I am off to compare bottled waters...
  
  p.s a mate of mine will be running the cider stand at the CAMRA fest this year...nice organic cider from his mates orchard in hereford...ner ner na ner ner.....blackcurrant is optional.
  
  peace
  G
  Gmanuk10107.06.2011
• Lets all grow a goatee beard, wear our jeans hanging off our arse, get a hole punched in our ear lobe, wear a flat peaked cap & stick our hand in the air gesturing some kind of rock gesture!
  Does that mean im punk enuff to drink your AMAZING beer?!
  You guys are amazing.....really.....amazing! The best!......Ever!
  Your Mums Titts07.06.2011
• Fu**ing grow up. What is your problem with CAMRA? If it were not for them, your brewery would not exist.
  btw the way you make some excellent beers that have always tasted better in cask when they have been available that way. My first words after the last fizzy Brew Dog I tried "Buuuuuurrrrrrrrrp"
  Martin Bundy07.06.2011
• Capital idea. I am utterly utterly sick of these CAMRA so caller cellarmen, who are there because they are friends of a best mates grandsons granny's dog they once saw, at festivals. If youy dont have a funking clue what your doing, dont question when a member of the brewery asks how it is then say no cause the bitch ass slackjawed cellarman is too buisy jollying himself with a tube full of liver.
  The Mad Walloper07.06.2011
• Hi this is a message for all you guys having this massive keg cask debate. My names Dan. I am the new president of the real ale society at Aberdeen university. I am also a member of staff at Brewdog Aberdeen. But most of all I enjoy good beer. I think all you guys moaning about bloody camra bashing need to grow a sense of humour. I doubt many of you have had the opportunity to talk to james and martin and I am lucky enough to on a pretty regular basis. The reason they won't serve beer at camra festivals is because they honestly believe their beer is better served under keg conditions and camra a too short sighted or have crawled so far into their own arse they can't see that surely the people who make the beer know best. They still produce cask beer because it is a business at the end of the day and many pubs don't have the facilities for kegs. Camra need to understand that a cask doesn't make a good beer. A brewery does and they alienated brewdog in the first place by disagreeing with how they believe their beer was best served. I actually believe brewdog beers are better from keg and iv tried most of the in both forms. And you know what the guys who make it believe that and they know a hell of a lot more about beer then me. Camra have the potential to really push forward a new safer drinking culture with a far better standard of beer across the country but have totally bottled it because they can't accept new technologies in brewing. What if there had been a similar group of people when hops were first introduced into brewing? As president of the real ale society I will be sourcing awesome beers directly from the breweries and serving them by their recommendation. I won't however be in support of camra until they can see past their own noses and realise that great "real" ale doesn't have to be served from a cask. Now guys please work on your sense of humour.
  Dan Obama07.06.2011
• Hi this is a message for all you guys having this massive keg cask debate. My names Dan. I am the new president of the real ale society at Aberdeen university. I am also a member of staff at Brewdog Aberdeen. But most of all I enjoy good beer. I think all you guys moaning about bloody camra bashing need to grow a sense of humour. I doubt many of you have had the opportunity to talk to james and martin and I am lucky enough to on a pretty regular basis. The reason they won't serve beer at camra festivals is because they honestly believe their beer is better served under keg conditions and camra a too short sighted or have crawled so far into their own arse they can't see that surely the people who make the beer know best. They still produce cask beer because it is a business at the end of the day and many pubs don't have the facilities for kegs. Camra need to understand that a cask doesn't make a good beer. A brewery does and they alienated brewdog in the first place by disagreeing with how they believe their beer was best served. I actually believe brewdog beers are better from keg and iv tried most of the in both forms. And you know what the guys who make it believe that and they know a hell of a lot more about beer then me. Camra have the potential to really push forward a new safer drinking culture with a far better standard of beer across the country but have totally bottled it because they can't accept new technologies in brewing. What if there had been a similar group of people when hops were first introduced into brewing? As president of the real ale society I will be sourcing awesome beers directly from the breweries and serving them by their recommendation. I won't however be in support of camra until they can see past their own noses and realise that great "real" ale doesn't have to be served from a cask. Now guys please work on your sense of humour.
  Dan Obama07.06.2011
• Ian, if BrewDog are so keen on a cask vs. keg comparison they can do it in their own bar. How about BrewDog having the courage to give the beer drinker a choice, as you put it?
  Barm07.06.2011
• I don't understand what all the bickering is about. If I was in Aberdeen I'd go to both festivals. It does seem Brewdog are trying to do something different and more entertaining - however, they obviously have a financial advantage over a group of CAMRA volunteers. Brewdog can do what they like - people go if they want to. Try it - if it's crap - go to the CAMRA festival. It's all personal choice.
  This keg/cask debate is silly - what's wrong with a brewery doing a good keg beer? Cask ale will always be a different drink to keg. Cask is obviously superior, but why should the alternative (keg) be always dreadful?
  sonicstrav07.06.2011
• Il est tout à fait possible que certains organisation archaïque creuse c'est propre tombe.
  HardknottDave06.06.2011
• Sorry, I think the grammar was bad there, is this better?
  
  Non français? Êtes-vous fou les gars?
  
  Je sais que vous Ecossais adorent les Français
  HardknottDave06.06.2011
• I don't live anywhere near Aberdeen so heading off to this event was never on my agenda, also being a Morris dancer as well would have scuppered me good & proper. However I enjoy cask beers and I also enjoy a good many Brewdog beers and cannot understand what planet the Brewdog team are on sometimes. I'm saddened by all this CAMRA and real ale bashing. I work at beer festivals voluntarily for CAMRA and others and yet I also go to events such as The Mikkeller event at The Cask & Kitchen at the weekend happily drinking Mikkeller on keg and the likes of Bristol Beer Factory, Raw and others on cask so I find this trying to drive a wedge between the two is quite bizarre. I'm disappointed that this is happening at exactly the same time in Aberdeen as the CAMRA festival and can only see Brewdog alienating people who love just drinking good beer whatever the dispense method. Come on grow up and be a bit more respectful.
  Fin06.06.2011
• Ian
  
  There are hundreds of craft breweries in the UK, there are over 40 craft breweries in Scotland, including 6 in our local branch area (Grampian & Northern Isles).
  
  We support and promote all of our local breweries - Burnside, Deeside, Highland, Orkney, Valhalla and Brewdog (yes, in spite of all James' vitriol - we do). All of them have been the featured brewery at one of our festivals. All of them make excellent beers, and all are worthy of our support.
  
  Camra is an organisation promoting cask ale. There is a discussion within the organisation regarding whether craft keg ales may also be included, but under the current Camra policy, a Camra beer festival may not serve keg beer. You may consider that restrictive, but in my opinion it is no more so than Brewdog's refusal to serve their own cask ales in their outlets.
  
  As such, we are not in a position to do a comparison keg/cask presentation for Brewdog.
  
  Brewdog is the party which brought this particular matter to a head - they should bear the burden of resolving it.
  
  Camra is not Brewdog's marketing arm (which by the way I strongly suspect is James' original gripe with Camra). There are 5 other craft breweries within our branch area, which in my humble opinion are just as worthy of recognition. I see no reason why we should spend a lot of volunteer time on one particular brewery just because they go out of their way to provoke us.
  
  
  Helge Nareid06.06.2011
• Non, le français? Êtes-vous fou les gars?
  HardknottDave06.06.2011
• Helge. Thanks for setting me straight on a few points. You didn't however answer my point, which is would if Brewdog were willing to supply the festival with beer, would the festival put the same beer on, in Cask and keg for comparison?
  Ian Prise06.06.2011
• Craig. I'm probably in a minority, in that despite liking a good pint, I've not had that much exposure to cask beer. I get that some people like both. I like to think that Brewdogs Camra bashing agenda, is done with the tongue at least a little bit in cheek. I don't recall them every having a go directly at any other small brewer. The InBevs and the like are fair game.
  I should sneek down to Pittodrie for a while at the weekend, and try a few. I'm sure the beer will be better than the football served there at least.
  Ian Prise06.06.2011
• Ian, really don't know the facts do you?
  Brewdog has been asked to supply cask ale to the Aberdeen Beer Festival since Brewdog was started - they are after all in our local branch area.
  
  But the last three years they have declined to supply beer to the festival, even though they DO continue to supply cask ales. The lack of Brewdog beers at the Aberdeen Beer Festival is purely down to Brewdog.
  
  Secondly, I have challenged James since before before Brewdog Aberdeen opened to get cask ale in the pub, he has consistently refused.
  
  Brewdog do brew some good beers, and I am no cask ale purist, some beers _are_ best suited for keg dispense - but only some ... - and it is my considered opinion that some Brewdog beers are significantly better in cask than in keg.
  
  This is more in sorrow than in anger, I do wish that Brewdog would concentrate on brewing good beer, but I think they've lost their way.
  
  Helge Nareid06.06.2011
• Ian. Its may be a small portion of their Market, but i know lots of people who like brewdog beers and like cask beer.
  Why deliberately set out to piss off even this small sector of there market. Some of who are shareholders. Its great how much they have improved the Market, but that doesnt make every thing that went before bad. To claim (or even imply) that each and every beer at the festival is bland and more boring than the last, is just a plain old lie.
  craig garvie06.06.2011
• Craig, I'm not sure how Brewdog, are going to piss off Cask beer lovers by having a Keg beer fest at the same time. The Cask lovers will go to the Cask event I would have thought. The whole thing has been arranged in the usual Brewdog style to ruffle a few feathers no doubt, and generate a bit of publicity. I seriously doubt that the Brewdog events, will have any effect on attendance at either Camra event. I can see that it would piss an enlightened beer lover as youself off, as you would no doubt enjoy both events. As for being "dogwashed" as you put it, guilty as charged and proud of it. When for twenty years your choice of beer in the one pub you would actually go to in the town you live in, is Tennents lager, McEwans export, or Guiness, and then Brewdog come along it's a revelation. I'm enjoying the Craft Beer Revolution. Are you?
  Ian Prise06.06.2011
• Ian Prise ive never seen anyone so "dogwashed" Yeah its giving choice or should i say FORCING choice. They could hold it any time. But they have deliberately chosen to piss of Cask beer lovers. I like brewdog beers, I like Cask beers. Why are they forcing me to choose between Brewdog Beers and Cask beer. Why are Brewdog treating their Shareholders in such a Bad way.
  craig garvie06.06.2011
• @Helge You seem to have thrown you teddy in the corner. It's about giving the beer drinker a choice.
  
  How about next year, the Aberdeen beer festival has the courage to serve some of Brewdogs beers side by side on cask and keg. The brewdog bar isn't set up for cask, but with a year to get it sorted I can see only one reason if the correct approach was taken that this couldn't happen at the festival next year. The one reason being that Camra don't do KEG.
  Ian Prise06.06.2011
• This is downright childish. You are attempting to sabotage two volunteer-run festivals out of pure spite.
  
  What about having the courage to serve your own beers in both cask and keg versions?
  Your decision to go for keg is in my humble opinion purely driven by commercial concerns - even your own beers taste better in cask!
  
  And no - I won't be attending your festival, I will be working as a volunteer in the REAL Aberdeen beer festival.
  
  Helge Nareid06.06.2011
• I am now pretty torn as I am going to the festival on Friday and I have enjoyed each one and the one back in 2008 was pretty good.
  
  That initially introduced me to Brew dog until then I had no idea but I remember (faintly) going back to the brew dog beers again and again after 'sampling' the others there, Helgas big Juggs and ginger tosser (to name my favorite couple) we're really good but brew dog provided something that the other beers lacked and to this day I can't put my finger on it!
  
  I am seriously tempted to take up Prestwick's suggestion: 2 festivals 1 night! ROCK ON!
  Peter06.06.2011
• Yay Brewdog fezzi
  
  Boo - living in Leeds and not being able to make it :( fml etc ...
  Adrian Jackson06.06.2011
• This is quite a cheap attempt at drumming up publicity as you are running on the back of a bunch of volunteers who do not hold any affiliation to a brewery. If the event wasn't about real ale bashing and camra festivals then you would have made no issue of it.
  
  Clearly schoolboy tactics which are rapidly becoming dull repeats from your outlet. Concentrate on the fact you have some good brews which many like any join in with the real ale revolution, don't join the alcopop hasbeens.
  Cheap publicity06.06.2011
• What annoys me about the CAMRA bashing and the NO REAL ale. Is many of the Brewdog Fans are CAMRA members and Real Ale Fan. Liking Real Ale and Brewdog beer doesnt need to be an Either Or Choice. But Brewdog seem determined to force a wedge between the two. There acting like a Divorced Parent DEMANDING that their kid choice either Mum or Dad.
  craig garvie06.06.2011
• Well I'd say there's, a light CAMRA bashing in there... and not an entirely deserved one. I don't know the CAMRA festival in question but I tend to find a lot more than "dull, bland Ale, each one tasting more boring than the one before." Then again, I avoid anything that sounds much like "brown bitter" (It isn't a foolproof guide but I always stick to beers >5% and preferably on the dark side.)
  
  From a local perspective we have a profile that sells well... like it or not a large number of brown-bitter drinkers attend our events. We cater for them and also for those after something more different/modern/darker/stronger - and we do a good job of it (measured by the fact we typically sell most of the beer.) The range at our last festival stretched from a 3.0% pale mild stuffed with Aroma hops from Redemption brewery (which won beer of the festival) to a 7.0% aged imperial stout from our local Buntingford Brewery - with several highlights in-between. Heh, we even had a firkin of Punk IPA - have always preferred this as a cask ale myself. (Not to mention a wide selection of foreign beer, both kegged and bottled.)
  
  If you want to bash "typical" real ale festivals then focus on the non-beery elements. The lack of entertainment, the lack of decent food - these are often big let-downs. They're also difficult to organise and get right. CAMRA is a *volunteer* organisation and after the effort required to organise venue, licensing, beer, volunteers and all the essentials you're lucky to get much else.
  
  While I'd prefer to see BrewDog and CAMRA trying to co-operate a bit more, I'm not going to keep my fingers crossed on that one. I just hope that this sort of rivalry drags out a bit more effort on the part of CAMRA branches - but I struggle to see how most branches could manage that without some outside help. (Breweries like BrewDog could surely help fill in some of the gaps in their local beer festivals?)
  
  Anyway - I wish I could be in Aberdeen to enjoy/contrast/compare *both* festivals. Alas, I'll be at my desk :(
  Yvan06.06.2011
• Who am I kidding. Event looks great. Especially the music!
  Don06.06.2011
• Your whole 'edgy-ness' is getting rapidly boring. Package it how you want its still beer. Your rants about lager and now real ale / CAMRA really are getting dull.... ooo we are brewdog we are so punky. Used to be a fan.
  Don06.06.2011
• Sorry to clarify when I say "do one festival on one day..." I meant drinkers visit one festival one day and another the next :D
  Prestwick06.06.2011
• To be honest as both events are several days long surely it'd be logical to do one festival on one day and the other one the next or even do a festival crawl and do both on the same day (and night)!
  
  Rather than competing with CAMRA the two I think complement each other. What other city in the UK could boast TWO beer festivals. God bless Aberdeen! :D
  Prestwick06.06.2011
• I am so jealous of all these fantastic events. You really have to consider opening a bar in Dallas TX. I think that's probably easier than me moving to Scotland, don't you think?
  
  Cheers. All of these events and releases just go on to prove that indeed..
  
  "It's a BrewDog world, and we're all his bitches"
  Bracken's Bitches06.06.2011
• I would love to know what you are ageing in the ecask ? ;-)
  simcoecitra06.06.2011
• Whilst I am dissapoint (sic) that the alternative beer festival being run at the same time as the 'real' one, give the chaps a break DN1.
  
  What is the point in running cask ale? There will be shit loads at the other beer fest.
  
  And I wish to god that Scotland as a whole would tone down the whole Tartan, pipes and shortbread. It's like they are the only things that culturally define the whole nation.
  
  The lads have got a cunning ploy here to get the lager drinkers in and trying something new.
  I'm planning to attend both (for the love of God, when you change the Kegs UPDATE TWITTER).
  
  Anyway, good luck guys I hope to see you or you minions at the pub and I hope to be in a state to remember it.
  
  
  Graham06.06.2011
• Loads of other people have devices for in line hopping of draft beers. Around 20 different brewers use these now. Wig and Penn make an awesome version which is sold in Australia and different variations are often at beer festivals.
  
  The sentence from Stone is a nod to our absolute idols, they are why we started our brewery, we were inspired by them and wanted to acknowledge that!
  James, BrewDog06.06.2011
• So you guys have a Dogfish Head "Randall the enamel animal", huh? Nice. Text from Stone on your Punk IPA, words from Sam Calagione's book regarding David and goliaths, worlds strongest beer publicity, what next? Rapping about beer?
  Busted06.06.2011
• @ Drunkard number 1. Have fun at the CAMRA festival.
  
  We don't think think the CAMRA beer festivals are that great, and we think we can put something much more fun, engaging and relevant together.
  
  This blog is not real ale bashing - it is about putting together an awesome beer event for people who want to come along.
  
  Don't like it? Then don't come. It is pretty simple you grumpy scamp.
  James, BrewDog06.06.2011
• If you cook your BBQ properly you won't get an explosive beer and food pairing! ;-)
  Ed06.06.2011
• Yawn. More boring CAMRA and real ale bashing.
  
  Drunkard number 106.06.2011

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