Birmingham’s Dig Brew Co is celebrating the re-opening of its pizza kitchen and its first export order from Australia. An event this week will mark the business’s fifth anniversary, and tickets are available now.
The team at Dig Brew Co
Pizza House 3 will serve pizzas made in a new Detroit rectangular deep pan style as well as the usual round New York style. And the taproom will serve a new 6% ABV IPA of the same name featuring a combination of Australian and New Zealand hops. This all takes place at the brewery’s premises on River Street, in Digbeth, on 25th and 26th March.
In collaboration with the Cork and Cage bar in Stirchley, two of the brewing tanks will be turned over to dessert beers made with milk, sugar, coffee, and birthday cake. On the Friday evening a local DJ will play music by the late rapper
and beer lover Daniel Dumile (best known by his stage name of MF Doom).
Entrance tickets for Pizza House 3 start at £10 per head and are available from www.digbrewco.com. Or you can simply turn up on the day. Tickets can be exchanged for beers and slices of pizza in different quantities dependent on the price of the ticket and the beers requested.
Oliver Webb, owner of Dig Brew Co, said: “Pizza House 3 is the third incarnation of our pizza kitchen that began in-house with Dough and moved on to take-aways during lockdown, when we had a great response to our trial of Detroit pizzas. Our normal menu and beers will also be available for non-ticket holders.”
The fifth anniversary of Dig Brew Co has coincided with the brewery’s inaugural export of beers to Australia. The first shipment of a range of pale ales, IPAs, and sours, including Potion, OPTIMO, and California, already on its way in cans and kegs to a distributor in Melbourne.
Oliver said: “A chance encounter by one of our team led to a call from an Australian importer who was interested in buying in an English beer. He took a punt on Dig Brew beer and now there is every likelihood of further shipments.”
Loyal and commited staff
With exports currently representing only 5.8% of revenue, Dig Brew previously won an export order from Japan, resulting in Potion and OPTIMO becoming available in craft beer pubs across Tokyo. The brewery is now planning a
campaign to increase its market presence across Europe.
Slade Art School graduate Oliver added: “Five years ago I was still running portable cocktail bars, so reaching the stage of seeing Dig Brew beers circumnavigating the globe is quite hard to believe.
“We are marking the occasion by brewing an appropriate beer containing Australian hops and relaunching our pizza kitchen in the way we like to do after gathering valuable feedback from our customers.
“Almost needless to say, we couldn’t have made it to this milestone without the efforts of our loyal and committed staff in what has been truly a team effort.”
Honoured in 2019 after winning a competition run by We are Beer to find the UK’s best up-and-coming craft beer brewers, Dig Brew Co last year teamed up with Michelin chef Brad Carter to launch what it believes was the first American-style craft beer to be made exclusively with British hops.
Over the past five years, with a team that has risen in number from two to ten, Dig Brew Co has brewed more than two million pints and more than one hundred different beers, used ten tonnes of hops, and added more than 50 different
ingredients, including birthday cake, honey, coffee, and blackberries.
