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June 2024

  • Three bar staff serve drinks at BrewDog Waterloo

    BrewDog sacks Asian woman after reaction to EDL members meeting in bar

    Company accused staff member of ‘aggressive behaviour’ after she raised concerns about far-right group gathering

May 2024

  • Staff working at the bar of BrewDog Waterloo, London

    Little remains of Brewdog’s ‘punk’ ethos as co-founder steps down

  • James Watt poses for a photo in front of a wall with graffiti on it. He is wearing a denim shirt, scarf and a peaked cap, which he is adjusting

    BrewDog’s James Watt to step down as chief executive of beer company

February 2024

  • Closed Brewdog bar in Milton Keynes.

    I pay staff in my small bookshop more than the living wage, so why can’t big businesses?

  • Brewdog founders Martin Dickie and James Watt

    ‘It’s sad’: is the UK real living wage under threat as Capita and BrewDog pull out?

January 2024

  • Gaby Hinsliff

    The latest casualties of Britain’s rental crisis? Youthful joy – and the buzz and vibrancy of city life

    Gaby Hinsliff
    When housing costs a fortune and employers such as BrewDog pay the minimum wage, it’s no wonder pubs and venues are struggling, says Guardian columnist Gaby Hinsliff
  • Bar staff serve drinks at a launch event for the BrewDog Waterloo in London.

    BrewDog faces staff backlash after dropping real living wage pledge

    New workers now hired on legal minimum wage and pay frozen for London bar staff amid trading losses
  • Forest is growing its share of the London ebike market and has green credentials.

    From HumanForest to BrewDog: five firms to watch in a time of turbulence

    As AI and tech make their presence felt, new companies are emerging and older ones are adapting

December 2023

  • BrewDog’s Punk IPA beer

    Advertising watchdog censures BrewDog over beer climate claims

    Ruling upholds complaints that ad urging consumers to drink product to protect descendants was misleading

February 2023

  • BrewDog China collection

    BrewDog to expand in China after Budweiser deal

    Punk IPA maker says it wants to sell more of its craft beer in world’s biggest market

January 2023

  • Brewdog golden can

    BrewDog boss pays almost £500k to unhappy ‘solid gold’ beer can winners

    James Watt says bungled promotion in which cans were only gold plated looked ‘dishonest and disingenuous’

December 2022

  • BrewDog sign in Waterloo, London

    BrewDog beer ad pulled over ‘one of your five a day’ claim

  • punk ipa label

    BrewDog loses its ethical B Corp certificate

July 2022

  • Voice of the professional: Chloe Morgan of the Upfront strand of Football Rambles Presents.

    Miranda Sawyer on podcasts and radio
    The week in audio: Upfront: Euro 2022 Guide; Between the Ears: In the Footsteps of Beryl the Boot; Good Ship Brewdog

    The women’s Euro championships are in safe hands with Upfront; plus, the sound effects artist who shaped postwar British film and the trouble with Brewdog

May 2022

  • James Watt, CEO of BrewDog.

    BrewDog CEO brings prosecution against a woman for ‘fraud’

    James Watt claims Emili Ziem provided him with false information ‘for the purpose of causing distress’

March 2022

  • A BrewDog bar in Milton Keynes.

    BrewDog boss hired private investigators to gather evidence of alleged smear campaign

    Integritas Investigative Solutions approached people to obtain information about those James Watt believed had maligned him, the Guardian can reveal
  • An estate cottage in Scotland.

    Corporate tree-planting drive in Scotland ‘risks widening rural inequality’

    Surge of estate sales to big firms has driven up prices and increased elitism of land ownership, says report
  • Looking beyond pines to Geal Charn Mòr

    Lost Forest: why is BrewDog’s green scheme causing controversy?

    Firm has pledged to plant huge forest in Scotland, but some of its environmental claims have raised eyebrows
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