Overview
- Reports say the German subsidiary will file at the Berlin district court early this week, with the Berlin brewery and remaining bars in Berlin and Hamburg set to shut.
- Staff were told February wages will be covered as insolvency pay via the Federal Employment Agency, with a provisional administrator to be appointed and contracts remaining in place for now.
- Employees learned of the plan in internal emails from senior executives, and BrewDog’s London agency confirmed the intended filing for the German bars and the Berlin brewery to local media.
- Recent closures in Germany included sites in Berlin‑Friedrichshain and Wiesbaden, leaving the Ackerstraße bar, the Marienpark complex and the St. Pauli location next to be closed.
- The retreat comes as the wider group wrestles with heavy losses, the shutdown of its distilling arm, U.K. pub closures and a strategic review led by advisers, against a German market of falling beer consumption and higher costs.