Flying high on Brewdog Airlines! | The Craft Beer Channel
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- Опубліковано 5 вер 2024
- Flying high on Brewdog Airlines! | The Craft Beer Channel
This week the Brad flies solo with Brewdog Airlines, on their maiden trip from London to their brewery and hotel in Columbus, Ohio. Aside from the flight nearly being diverted, it all runs as smooth as a booze cruise at 35,000 ft could be expected to...
Disclaimer: Brewdog paid for Brad's flight and hotels, and drove him around with lots of other journos and EFPs.
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This was brad's first solo vid and he SMASHED IT OUTTA THE BALL PARK!
Was that American enough?
"Knocked it outta the park"...almost Johnny ---but still, wicked good video.
@@arielpotischman662 Damn it. So close. Thanks!
More Brad More Brad!
Gooooo sports team!
"Jealous" doesn't even begin to describe it...
Jonny agrees.
I would be more jealous if the beer wasn't brew dog beer! Brew dog has been downhill for past few years. They care more about stunts than the actual beer. If they're not too careful, their empire will come crashing down when ppl start to realise their beers are actually shit. Nonetheless one has to admire the stunts they do, I really want a beer shower!
agreed!
Great video, it portrays what is essentially wrong within craft beer as a model of business: Brewdog as the neoliberal dream to conquer the world.
One of the best episodes to date! Well done Brad, and of course Brewdog. Awesome!
Brad's all grown up
As an EFP I made it on this trip, and it was awesome. In-between the brewdog stuff, there were loads of REALLY great local micro breweries, elevator and seventh son being my favourite, and there was an epic trip to cinci to check out e very different independent breweries there.
There sure were - sadly sine Brad was on his own for this one, he didn't have the time to record it all! He got some slow mo of beanbags being thrown though so we didn't miss everything.
Urban Artifact (in the intro) is lit. As a person that doesn’t really love sours...man oh man are they tasty. Cincinnati is a really cool/somewhat hidden craft beer spot. They are killing it out there.
I can only imagine the flatulence level in the plane. A bunch of people with stunned taste buds banging down cans of craft brewed moonshiners beer and ruining the ozone layer.. LLOLOLOssssss
Brad did indeed smash it out of the park! Home run stuff. Something pretty good must have come up for you to miss this Jonny!
In retrospect, maybe not good enough...
I got a Brewdog tat as well. You're actually in the same room we were in last year. James was kind enough to give us a free stay there. Cheers!
This video makes me jealous. A hotel in the brewery?! Brewdog airlines?! Brad got to live the high life on this trip.
"Spot-on" - beer reviews by the Brad. Good effort!
Gah! Didn;t expect the showers scene! There's dedication to the craft (beer). Excellent work
Thankfully it didn't turn out like Psycho.
Brad doing a solo video. I think a new star is born.
First solo vid, first shower scene. Just sayin'.
😂
I'm kinda watching this with mixed feelings. Although I get the novelty of all this, it feels very uncomfortable that everything in the flight, hotel and taproom is branded and commercialised. Everything is stickered and logo'ed (don't know if that's a word, but it is now).
It might be a little naive of me, but shouldn't a good brewer simply brew well?
Well it should 100% be their main focus but these days there are thousands of other breweries brewing excellent beer so just doing that isnt enough if you want to expand.
Whether you NEED to expand is another question...
Yes, bit daft all of this - "specially designed beer for altitude"!?! FFS
Awesome video Brad. I coming back to London in August for LCBF. Hope to see you there again. Cheers from Norway.
che chileno cheers dude 🍻 yeah hope to see you at LCBF mate
Looks amazing
Thanks for the insight!
Wow, this looks badass!
great vid, well done Brad
Great watch! Hope you got a cowboy hat out there and plan to wear it everyday x
Brad already owns MANY cowboy hats.
You know I did brother. Problem is the girlfriend hates it! 🤷♂️
So jealous !!!
This is so cool! I hope to check out that hotel/brewery someday soon.
Cool👍⭐🍻cheers mate!
This is just amazing. Why not take a +1?
Dude, so cool! I'm a Columbus native and it's been great having Brewdog here. I hope you managed to check out a few other local spots while you were in town.
Brad headed to Rock Mill and Rheingeist too, as well as a few local bars. Unfortunately there wasn't time to film there.....so we'll have to come back again!
@@TheCraftBeerChannel Well I'm just a stranger on the internet, but if you or Brad ever make it back to Ohio again for another Brewdog event I'd love to meet up. I really appreciate what you guys do with the channel. I could even get some Hoof Hearted in your hands.
Damn it I lived in Cincy for a year, and did not know about this awesome place what as shame. Cheer! by the way
Great report Brad, hope you are over the ‘man-flu’ now.
Knew you were there spotted you in Brewdog's video! Great video
indiekiduk hard to miss that jacket 😉
Brewdog need to sell that beer on Easy Jet flights.
Yes. Yes they do.
I gotta get me to Beer Disneyland, stat.
so this is why i have to pay so much for my beer lol
That’s so sick! But please what are the songs in this video they’re just as amazing as Brewdog
We use music from Otis McDonald - a great dj and producer from California.
The Craft Beer Channel sweet thank you guys, thank you for your contribution to educating the public about all things beer, “more than just a breakfast drink”
so awesome as always, looked like you had a great time!
He sure freakin' did.
That place looked nuts. What camera were you using primarily? Just your phone? Good footage man.
Cheers! It was a mix of Brad's iPhone and our usual rig of a Canon 80d and sigma 18-35 1.8
Chasing Brews cheers man. Mostly an iPhone 7 with a lapel mic due to filming in airports and on airplanes where security and space are an issue
@@TheCraftBeerChannel Awesome! Both look great but gosh that 80D with the 18-35 looks great.
This looks awesome. Great video Brad!
Is there much to do in and around the local area? Or would you visit for the brewery alone?
Jon thanks Jon. Columbus is a pretty cool beer town. Lots of great beer bars including elevator brewing, seventh son brewery, rock mill tavern, and short north and Franklinton brewdog bars. Also some cool themed bars like 16 bit barcade and pins mechanical co that was a mini bowling alley joint. Some great places to eat around the short north arts district too. Cincinnati was cool too and I visited rinegheist brewery briefly which was an epic place.
It's a hard life
Nice advertorial for that Scottish 'craft' beer company...
Sure we took a press trip. No shame in that if it's declared. What makes them 'craft' not craft?
This is all me my friend.
Nice work Brad. Its easy to be cynical about Brewdog and all their nonsense but they really look after their guests. Well done for battling through the cold and drinking all the Punk (not sure which is the bigger challenge). I bet the plane honked from all the beer farts. How long were you there? Will we see footage from other places you visited while you were over in Ohio?
We put a bit on our social but there wasn't time to do proper films there sadly. The Punk over there tasted pretty different - did you see the HAZE?!
The Obvious comment ,
The first rule of Flight Club is: You do not talk about Flight Club
well you just broke it too.
masive brwery and ba department - thats the us, bigger bolder …
I'm pretty sure i was at school (Fraserburgh Academy) with the guy over your shoulder at 2:22 . Nice video :)
small world!
whilst the thought of reaching out of the shower to grab a decent beer definitely does seem desirable, is there really a need for this sort of thing. I like the idea of a hotel in a brewery but somehow for me Brewdog seem to be just a marketing company which is producing gimmick beers now... and having an airplane with "high altitude" beer on board... I dont know its just not what I consider craft beer to be all about. I also couldnt tell you the last time I had a Brewdog beer which I thought was new and interesting. Punk whilst a good ipa just seems dated now considering what other breweries are doing with the style. I feel they are in danger of becoming a hipster version of Carlsberg, and when you see the massive scale its hard to think they arent thinking about profit margins now more than process.
I guess to me it seems part of a bigger question, when looking on sites like beermerchants, or Rad beer and the host of others, as well as a lot of bottle shops is it really necessary to be trying to punt 330 ml cans for over 4 quid or 500ml cans for upwards of 6 quid a go, with radical artwork, stupid names and adjunct and other additions that take away from the real craft of making something special with just 4 ingredients. There seems to be a saturation now of craft breweries and a lot of them are really not doing anything special to justify their price tags.. Is craft beer in danger of disappearing up its own arse.. answers on a postcard!!
hey thanks for the in-depth comment! Would love more of these on the channel. So first up, I think it's important to remember that Brewdog, while they make some incredible and exciting beers particularly their big stouts, aren't really aimed at beer geeks anymore. They are mainstream - so they aren't looking for new and interesting, they are looking to convert people outside the beer world by making lots of noise and approachable but tasty beer. Sometimes I think they nail it, sometimes they go too far. This brewery and hotel is something very special though, and even though Brad and I can be cynical about Brewdog, it blew Brad away.
With regards to craft disappearing up its own arse, to some extent that's why we need Brewdog, making decent IPA for £1.99 from Tesco! As for the endless experimentation and high pricing, this is always going to be the case in the UK at least - but out of it comes great things so we always try to look at them, rather than the nonsense. People like DEYA, Burning Sky, Verdant, Yonder - people who have unique outlooks matched with very high quality outputs, born out of these scenes. So long as these kinds of breweries thrive, then the "craft" approach is doing its job.
@@TheCraftBeerChannel nailed it.. I dont diss Brewdog because they have probably turned more people onto craft beer than any other brewery I just feel they have reached a size and reach now where they arent immune to the demands of major macro breweries. I will probably end up trying out the hotel just to sample the other beers in the worlds best minibar :-)
But it’s not like you could have said anything subjective on a brewdog “gifted” free trip is it. And as they are becoming a powerhouse and very influential player in world beer do you think this channel would be strong enough to say a bad word?? I think not. And that is exactly what makes me feel uncomfortable about this whole scenario.
Hey. Totally understand your concerns. However, Brewdog's size or influence in no way affects our ability to criticise them, and we have done on a number of occasions particularly in our Patreon live shows. Had this trip been problematic, or had we seen things we needed to flag or criticise we would have - and Brewdog would have had no issue with that either. Press trips are the norm in journalism and most companies now accept and even encourage the fact that it doesnt guarantee positive coverage
We also ALWAYS declare press trips or anything that might affect our ability to be entirely impartial so our viewers can make up their own minds.