![]() There was a gap in Vegas for that kind of experience specific to beer. “There is a lot of outside dining in Vegas but not necessarily a rooftop with a view,” said Martin Keith, BrewDog brand director. Upstairs, the dining room and bar flow into the terrace, where there’s another bar, the cube (housing the elevator lobby and host stand), a fire feature, and a slew of seating that includes loungers covered in thick blue and white stripes, a sort of overscaled ticking. Back home, Crooks added, a butty is much more modest. “It’s a bit of Britain, a bit of Vegas,” said Brown, the BrewDog managing director. On the main floor, the chef also sends out a Lobster Chip Butty, a British sandwich (the butty) featuring steamed Maine lobster, house fries (the chips) and swipes of lobster sauce, all on brioche. ![]() “We might be the first place on the Strip for haggis,” Crooks said, laughing. Chef Chad Crooks, BrewDog’s director of global food, jabs the burger with a side of whisky peppercorn sauce. The Flying Scotsman burger, a nod toward BrewDog’s Scottish roots, features a beef patty topped with haggis, the famed, nutty, savory Scottish dish made from chopped, cooked and seasoned sheep offal. On the main floor menu, there are buffalo “wings” made from cauliflower florets and plant-based cheeseburgers or chicken sandwiches and sourdough pizzas emerging bubbled and blistered from a hulking wood-fire Neapolitan pizza oven. The stout comes in a 500 ml (17-ounce) bottle - for $500.īrewDog features different menus for its different floors (with some overlap). But what the beer lacks in alcohol heft it makes up in hefty price. The Haus Always Wins is a brawny 27 percent alcohol by volume. ![]() When they’re removed, a higher-alcohol beer remains. Because water freezes at a higher temperature than alcohol, the crystals contain water, not alcohol. The beer is chilled until ice crystals form. Like the Haus Always Wins, a collaboration with a Bavarian brewer. On the main floor, 56 taps (spliced into ranks of 28) line the back bar formed from the wall of a shipping container (BrewDog has 96 taps total.) At the Strip end of the room, a thicket of gleaming silver tanks makes up the 10-barrel microbrewery that will issue two releases every two weeks, beginning in about five weeks.īesides house standards like Elvis Juice, an ostentatiously tart American IPA, the revolving beer list features one-off beers, seasonal beers and brews from local producers like Able Baker, Lovelady and North 5th breweries. As we started to understand Las Vegas more, we understood we needed to do something showstopping.”Īs in $17 million worth of showstopping for the build-out (plus a $1 million bar tab raffled on opening night).Įxposed pipes and ductwork streak above strings of luminous Edison bulbs on the soaring main floor of BrewDog. “We want to be part of the food and beverage culture in these cities. “We want iconic locations in the world’s leading cities: Paris, London, New York, Sydney, Las Vegas,” Brown said the other morning during an exclusive first-look inside BrewDog for the Review-Journal. That superlative dovetails with Vegas itself, a city of superlatives, and the reason BrewDog decided to hoist its logo here in the first place. The Vegas BrewDog is the largest in the world, even larger than the Waterloo Station BrewDog in London. 2, stretches nearly 30,000 square feet, encompassing floor three and the top floor (with adjacent terrace) of Showcase Mall, next door to the MGM Grand. “At nighttime, it just gets better,” said James Brown, a managing director of BrewDog, which has about 125 locations (current and planned) spanning four continents, with the majority in its native U.K. (Ellen Schmidt/Las Vegas Review-Journal) dog - the BrewDog - has joined the Las Vegas skyline, the global brewpub’s logo (a running dog with upturned snout) humming in cadet blue during the day, glowing cadet blue after dark, across steel scaffolding atop a glass cube on a rooftop terrace high above the Strip, the posh precincts of Aria, Veer Towers and The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas just across the street, the surround-sound views stretching up Strip, down Strip, all around the town. The view of the Las Vegas Strip from the rooftop at the new BrewDog atop Showcase Mall on Friday, Nov. ![]()
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