Brewdog is closing 38 bars across the UK: full list of locations shutting (and the ones staying open)

When it first launched in 2007, Brewdog set out to be a ‘punk’, rebel outsider sort of brand. Over the years, founders threw toy cats out of helicopters, projected naked images of themselves onto the Houses of Parliament, drove tanks down the street and sold bottles in taxidermied squirrels. 

But the craft beer brand has had a pretty significant fall from grace since all of that. After failing to make a profit in recent years, Brewdog went into administrators and now, it’s been sold off. The brand, its brewing operations, intellectual property and 11 of its pubs have been bought by American beverage and medical cannabis company Tilray in a £33m deal. 

Tilray will take over Brewdog’s brewery in Aberdeenshire and its national distribution centre in Motherwell as well as flagship pubs in Manchester, Edinburgh, London and Birmingham. 

But Brewdog’s 38 other pubs across the UK are closing with immediate effect. The move has made 484 members of staff redundant in what Unite union has called ‘nothing short of a national disgrace’. General secretary Sharon Graham said: ‘BrewDog workers built this brand. They deserved respect. Instead, they were treated as disposable pawns.’

Tilray boss Irwin D Simon said that the company will ‘refocus BrewDog on the craft beer excellence that made it beloved in the first place and strategically invest to return the operations to profitable growth’. 

Which Brewdog pubs are shutting?

The following Brewdog venues are closing with immediate effect: 

• Basingstoke
• Bath
• Bournemouth
• Bristol
• Baldwin Street
• Bristol Harbourside
• Cambridge
• Cardiff
• Carlisle
• Cheltenham
• Exeter
• Soho
• London Camden Road
• London Chancery Lane
• Clerkenwell
• Ealing
• Hammersmith
• London Seething Lane
• Tower Bridge
• Wandsworth
• Liverpool
• DogHouse Manchester
• Manchester Outpost
• Milton Keynes
• Newcastle
• Norwich
• Nottingham
• Plymouth
• Reading
• Southampton
• Aberdeen Castlegate
• Aberdeen Union Square
• Edinburgh Cowgate
• Glasgow Merchant City
• Glasgow Argyle Street
• Inverurie
• Perth
• St Andrews
• Stirling

Which Brewdog pubs are staying open? 

These are the sites that have been acquired by Tilray and will remain up and running. 

• Birmingham
• London Canary Wharf
• London Paddington
• London Seven Dials
• London Tower Hill
• London Waterloo
• Manchester - Peter Street
• DogHouse Edinburgh
• Edinburgh Lothian Road
• Ellon - DogTap
• Dublin

ICYMI: A huge £15 million entertainment centre with a vast food hall is coming to this northern English city. 

Plus: Wetherspoons is opening 12 new pubs before July 2026 – full list of new boozers. 

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