Brewdog in Nottingham has closed with immediate effect, as part of the Scottish brewery’s £33m sale.
It was today revealed that a whopping 38 Brewdog bars around the UK have been closed, resulting in hundreds of job losses.
Just 11 pubs have been retained in the rescue deal.
US beverage and medical cannabis company Tilray has bought the company’s UK brewing operations, brand and 11 pubs in a £33m deal.
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Administrators said the sale had preserved 733 jobs – but that 484 jobs had been lost and 38 bars had closed after they were not included in the rescue deal.
Aberdeenshire-based Brewdog announced last month that consultants AlixPartners had been brought in after the firm failed to make a profit in recent years. On Monday, they were appointed as administrators.
AlixPartners said there had been “significant interest” in the company but that it had not received any offer which would have preserved Brewdog in its entirety.
They said: “Regrettably, a total of 38 bars in the UK will close with immediate effect, leading to 484 redundancies.”
The Nottingham bar was the chain’s last remaining East Midlands venue after they shut their Leicester site a few years ago.
Located in a century-old lace factory building on Broad Street, it offered 28 taps of craft beer and claimed to offer the ‘city’s best pizza’.
