Sub Club partners Brewgooder for new lager

The Sub Club has teamed up with Brewgooder to create a new lager.

Launching on 22 June, the Sub Club Dazzle will be sold exclusively behind the bar at the Jamaica Street venue and its rooftop bar.

For each can sold, the nightclub and the Brewgooder Foundation will donate 5p to the Dazzle Project, hopefully raising more than £5,000 per annum for the programme, which aims to create equality of opportunity in the electronic music scene through skills workshops.

Delivered in partnership with The Sound Lab, the Dazzle Project provides six weeks of introductory level tuition, aimed at breaking down barriers for individuals who wouldn’t otherwise get the opportunity. With touring DJs, producers and guest speakers from across the industry, topics include securing DJ residencies, the role of club nights, music communities and local radio, gender barriers, marketing and label management.

The broad aim of the project is to contribute to structural change in the music industry, improving the representation of marginalised groups in Scotland.

Sub Club managing director Mike Grieve said: “With a long standing ambition to have our own lager in the club, and having worked closely with Brewgooder over the last couple of years, it makes perfect sense for us to align our brands with this project as we share the common ethos of adding positive purpose to our commercial activities.

“The Dazzle Project is still in its infancy, but already from the first exploratory series of workshops we have seen real life success with participants going on to do paid gigs and set up their own events.

“The additional funding this great new lager will provide will help bring more bright new talent to the fore, and we are really excited to get started – and as an added bonus, the new Subbie lager looks and tastes fantastic.”

Brewgooder co-founder James Hughes said: “Having worked with the Sub Club team for a couple years now, there has always been alignment of ethos and values.

“So when we learned about their Dazzle Project, we saw an obvious opportunity to collaborate and produce not only a great looking and tasting product, but also a house beer that will forever exist to enable better opportunities for others, which entirely aligns with the purpose we founded Brewgooder on back in 2016.”

Paul Sullivan, chair of The Sound Lab, added: “We want to make music available to everyone, not just a privileged few.

“Every year, through our free, expert tuition and mentoring, we support hundreds of young people to gain vital skills and opportunities which they may otherwise be prevented from accessing.

“The Sub Club have been fantastic partners and it's so important that Scotland's most famous music venue is living true to the ethos of supporting underground music; Dazzle is the perfect vehicle for this and we are so excited to be part of its next stage.“

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