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Everything is a Remix
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Everyone loves beer, don’t they?
Well, Martin Dickie and James Watt – founders of Scottish craft brewery, BrewDog – certainly do.
Bored of the industrially-brewed lagers and ales that had permeated UK bars and off-licences for years, childhood friends Martin and James decided to take matters into their own hands by brewing their own beers. In April 2007, the world was introduced to BrewDog.
The co-founders were only 24 at the time, but that didn’t stop them taking out “some scary bank loans” to buy some stainless steel tanks, leasing a building to put them in and start making “some hard core beers”.
Today, BrewDog is Scotland’s largest independent brewery and figures recently released show that sales last year were up 230% on 2009, selling 7m beers compared to 3.2m the previous year.
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