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The main problem with trendy beer is that it goes flat while you pick the hipster bartender's beard hairs out of your pint.
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Also it seems that you have to have it in a multi coloured glass that would be more fitting at a 5 year old's birthday party.
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I'm a real "stick in the mud". Entrepreneurs who sell stuff with terms like "punk equity" make my spidey senses go off. I get the same feeling from any evangelist be it religious or financial. So I will miss out on some things, but that's often a good thing. So no P2P for me, Woodford and Musk are off the table and anyone who likes gold a bit too much, be it as an ETF or for decoration, is to be entirely avoided. The easiest aspect of all this for me is crypto and NFTs. Brewdog was never as bad as the crypto slight of hand, but the people involved all leave me with a feeling of the fairground patent medicine vendor.
And so we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.2 -
Brewdog were…let's just say a not very nice and rather underhand company. Not an operation that anyone who cares about their investments being even slightly ethical would have gone for IMO, other than in the really early days when their true colours were less visible. I genuinely can't see that "investors" were ever going to find the final outcome even vaguely in their favour.
🎉 MORTGAGE FREE (First time!) 30/09/2016 🎉 And now we go again…New mortgage taken 01/09/23 🏡
Balance as at 01/09/23 = £115,000.00 Balance as at 31/12/23 = £112,000.00
Balance as at 31/08/24 = £105,400.00 Balance as at 31/12/24 = £102,500.00
£100k barrier broken 1/4/25
Balance as at 31/08/25 = £ 95,450.00. Balance as at 31/12/25 = £ 91,100.00
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I believe it's already been stated by the administrators that there is unlikely to be any return for investors (which can be read as they are sure). I also read somewhere that the buyer has somehow wriggled out of paying staff wages that were owed, leaving the taxpayer to pick up the bill.
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I am not sure what you are suggesting here, but most pensions will have investments which are a lot more unethical. It was a beer company, it made beer, it paid people to produce it and run the bars etc. it was a business. They did plant some tress at one stage, but that went pear shaped.
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and they were pear trees.
And so we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.1 -
Which company is nice? As far as I am aware, Breedog operated within the law. Not sure what you mean by “underhand”. But one would expect if anything untoward has occurred we will find out about it soon.
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Not sure they did always operate within the law….
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-60054053
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i think that is rather scraping the barrel if I may say so respectfully.
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