BrewDog sold Highland estate for knockdown price after abandoning its reforestation plans

The Kinrara estate was bought last year for £350,000 more than what BrewDog paid in 2020, despite it being worth millions more. Photograph: Murdo MacLeod/The Guardian

The self-styled “punk” beer company BrewDog sold its Highland estate for a knockdown price after abandoning its efforts to plant Scotland’s “biggest ever forest” there.

BrewDog’s co-founder James Watt claimed its Lost Forest project at Kinrara in the Cairngorms national park would cover a “staggering area” and capture tens of millions of tonnes of CO₂ during its lifetime.