The first time Back of the Ferry wrote about Brewdog was in 2010. Brewdog had just started to sell its beer in Australia and one of those beers was Hardcore IPA, which was notorious for its 150 IBU measurement. The second time I wrote about Brewdog was to discuss its Tokyo* Stout, which was notorious for its 18.2%ABV. Brewdog was making a name for itself by brewing insane level ABV beers including a 41 %er.
So everything about being Brewdog is about being big. And lately it is about having a big number of really big venues around the world. Your correspondent was thinking that it was fortuitously stumbling across Brewdog venues on his recent travels, but with 120 venues globally – they’re hard to miss.
Sydney has been lagging behind Melbourne, Brisbane and Perth in not having its own Brewdog. No longer. Sydneysiders maybe surprised to hear that we have a suburb called South Eveleigh. It is basically the converted Eveleigh Railway Yards and home of the Australian Technology Park and now Sydney’s Brewdog – officially Brewdog South Eveleigh.
The space meets the criteria for Brewdog venues – vast. Both inside and outside. The good citizens of South Eveleigh with young children have embraced the outside space. A riot of roaming pastel Rugrats surrounded parents sipping contentedly on their various beverages. At least taps serve up mainly Brewdog beers with a smattering of guest taps (Wayward, Moondog, Slow Lane and Fontaine). Brewdog classics like 5am Saint, Punk XPA, Elvis Juice sit along alongside unique brews like Eveleigh Pale Ale.
The food menu is robust with the usual burgers, wings and pizzas and a couple of oddities including a cucumber salad. Well, I thought it was an oddity – something only in Asian restaurants (and which I always order). According to my socially-media aware daughter the smashed cucumber salad is a tik-tok rage and causing cucumber shortages. Brewdog’s take is to slice the cucumber into batons not smash it, but it is a fine example of the dish and a pleasant surprise.
So having done Perth (WA), Frankfurt, Brussels and now South Eveleigh I only have 116 to go, though I suspect like Craft Beer I’ll never do them all as they’ll keep adding to the list.
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