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BREWDOG HOSTS #COLLABFEST2015 - THE THIRD ANNUAL CRAFT BEER FESTIVAL WITH RECORD 21 UK BREWERIES TAKING PART ON HALLOWEEN

- BrewDog holds third installment of CollabFest, a festival that creates unique collaborations between

BrewDog bars and local independent craft breweries

- This year there will be a massive 21 breweries taking part, including Brew By Numbers, Northern Alchemy

and Burning Sky

- The event will take place on Saturday 31st October from normal bar opening hours

Scottish craft brewery, BrewDog, has long been considered a pioneer of the UK craft beer scene, and this year it

launches the third annual craft beer festival, CollabFest with a huge 21 independent breweries taking part.

The festival showcases the most exciting and dynamic breweries across the nation, and pairs them with BrewDog

bars to collaborate on one exquisitely brewed new craft creation. 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.

Bigger and better than ever, this year’s event, which takes place on Saturday 31st October (Halloween), will

produce 21 artisanal new beers for fans to taste. A rotating selection of these will be available on tap in all UK

BrewDog bars while stocks last, with accompanying tasting notes for visitors to the venues to work their way

through.

James Watt, Co-Founder of BrewDog commented:“The craft beer scene in the UK has exploded over the past few years, and it’s exciting to be a part of one of the

most eclectic, exciting beer scenes in the world. We’re peers with some of the planet’s most innovative and

talented craft brewers, and our bars are a showcase for the UK’s best in brewing. CollabFest2015 is a chance to

celebrate and champion pioneering new breweries redefining the landscape of beer, and I can’t wait to try the

creations our teams have come up with!”

The now-legendary, annual ‘CollabFest’ first launched in October 2013, with BrewDog’s then 11 bars creating

beers with local brewers. Scotland’s most irreverent craft brewery has now opened 35 bars and venues globally,

funded in part by its game-changing crowdfunding scheme Equity For Punks. The initiative has generated over

£17m over four rounds, which is more money taken through crowdfunding than any other business on record. The

business now has over 40,000 shareholders, allowing it to scale up without relying on faceless banks. The most

recent round of Equity for Punks, which launched in April 2015, has already broken world crowdfunding records by

reaching £10million in just 6 months.

James Watt continued:“CollabFest is a mammoth event, with more collaboration beers unveiled together than any other event in the world.

The standout ingenuity and creativity of the greatest brewers in the country will be centre stage, shining the

spotlight on the passion this industry is fuelled by. Appreciation for other craft breweries is a cornerstone of what

we do, and is evident in every BrewDog bar. I am excited to sample a whole raft of new, bonkers, delicious and

mega beers this weekend! I just hope Untappd has braced its servers...”

The full list of collabs can be found below:

- Aberdeen & Cromarty – Ghost Writer (5.1%) Baltic porter with cocoa, mulatto chillies- Birmingham & Salopian – Red Mist (5.5%) American amber- Brighton & Burning Sky – Wild Gift (3.5%) Brett pale ale- Bristol & Moor Beer – Not Another Eurovision Beer (5.3%) Rye IPA- Camden & Brew By Numbers – 16|04 Coffee & Chocolate Red Ale (6.5%)- Cardiff & Crafty Devil – Kenya Kick It? (6.2%) Black coffee IPA with cascara berries- Clapham & Orbit Beers – Laika (5.0%) Dry-hopped dunkelweisse- DogHouse & Fyne Ales – Plumdog Millionaire (4.7%) Black plum gose- Dundee & Alechemy – Young, Dumb and Full of Plum (4.7%) Plum and galangal saison- Edinburgh & Tempest – Honey, Jamaican Me Ginger (7.1%) Honey and ginger Scotch ale- Glasgow & Fallen – Big Raspberry Dog Chew (10%) Raspberry salted caramel imperial milk stout- Leeds & Northern Monk – Professor Plum (6.0%) Smoked plum saison- Leicester & Mad Hatter – Absolem’s Alt (5.4%) Autumn-spiced altbier- Liverpool & Liverpool Craft Beer Co – Little Red Rye (6.7%) Imperial red rye IPA- Manchester & Blackjack – Blueberry Quaffle (6.0%) Blueberry and cherry wheat beer- Newcastle & Northern Alchemy – Rambutan, Chinese pear, vanilla milk oatmeal wit (6.0%)- Nottingham & Black Iris – Perfect Storm (4.9%) Black California Common- Sheffield & Bad Seed – I Am The One Who Equinox (6.2%) White IPA with Sorachi Ace and Equinox- Shepherd’s Bush & Weird Beard – Safeword (6.6%) Chokeberry IPA- Shoreditch & Redchurch – Tarte Aux Pommes (4.7%) Wild apple sour- ShuffleDog & Ilkley – Who Let The Dog’s Stout? (4.0%) Milk stout

Get involved by tweeting @BrewDog on Saturday using the #CollabFest2015 hashtag!

--- ENDS ---What is BrewDog?Bored of the industrially brewed lagers and stuffy ales that dominated the UK market, school friends James Watt and Martin Dickie established BrewDog in 2007. They decided the best way to fix this undesirable predicament was to brew their own beers. Both only 24 at the time, BrewDog’s cofounders leased a building, got some scary bank loans, spent all their money on stainless steel and started making hardcore beers.

“We are dedicated to making cool, contemporary and progressive beers showcasing some of the world’s classic beer styles. All with an innovative twist and customary BrewDog bite.”James Watt and Martin Dickie

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