BrewDog

BrewDog PLC (company no. SC311560) is a Scottish craft brewer, bar and hotel operator headquartered at Balmacassie Commercial Park, Ellon, Aberdeenshire, known for Punk IPA, Hazy Jane and Lost Lager, its Equity for Punks crowdfunding rounds, and its openly published DIY Dog recipe archive. BrewDog does not run a conventional developer program, but its direct-to-consumer store at brewdog.com is a Shopify storefront that ships a real agent-facing API surface: a published /llms.txt and /agents.md, a Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP) merchant profile at /.well-known/ucp, a UCP-over-MCP endpoint at /api/ucp/mcp, Shopify Customer Account OpenID Connect discovery at /.well-known/openid-configuration, and unauthenticated read-only storefront product JSON endpoints that BrewDog documents for agents itself.

BrewDog publishes 2 APIs on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Food and Beverage, Beer, Brewing, and Retail.

BrewDog’s developer surface includes documentation, signup flow, support, engineering blog, YouTube channel, authentication, code examples, and 21 more developer resources.

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24.3/100 emerging ▬ flat Agent 30/100 agent aware Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-08-05 · rubric v0.9.1
2 APIs 1 MCP Servers
CompanyFood and BeverageBeerBrewingRetaileCommerceConsumer Packaged GoodsHospitalityAgentic CommerceShopify

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scored 2026-08-05 · rubric v0.9.1
Composite quality — 24.3/100 · emerging
Contract Quality 0.0 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 7.3 / 20
Commercial Clarity 6.8 / 20
Operational Transparency 0.0 / 13
Governance 1.5 / 12
Discoverability 8.7 / 10
Agent readiness — 30/100 · agent aware
Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 0 / 10
MCP Server 12 / 12
Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10
Idempotency 0 / 9
Stable Error Semantics 8 / 8
Request/Response Examples 7 / 7
Rate-Limit Signaling 0 / 7
Typed Event Surface 0 / 6
Agent Skills 5 / 5
Well-Known Catalog 4 / 4
Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3
A2A Agent Card 0 / 8
Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4
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APIs 2

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

BrewDog Agentic Commerce (UCP over MCP)

BrewDog's Universal Commerce Protocol shopping service, exposed over MCP at https://brewdog.com/api/ucp/mcp and advertised by the store's own /.well-known/ucp merchant profile a...

BrewDog Storefront Product JSON

The unauthenticated, read-only product and collection JSON surface of the brewdog.com Shopify storefront, documented by BrewDog for agents in /llms.txt and /agents.md: GET /prod...

MCP Servers 1

Model Context Protocol servers that expose these APIs to AI agents.

brewdog-mcp.yml

MCP SERVER

Examples 1

Example request and response payloads for these APIs.

Brewdog Products Json

1 fields

EXAMPLE

Security Posture 2

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Brewdog Authentication

openIdConnect/oauth2/none · 3 schemes

SECURITY

Brewdog Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Scopes 1

OAuth scopes governing access to this provider's APIs.

Brewdog Scopes

4 scopes · authorizationCode

4 scopes

SCOPES

Resources

Get Started 2

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

SignUp
SignUp
 Login
Login

Documentation 1

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation
Documentation

Agent Surfaces 4

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

LLMsTxt
LLMsTxt
 MCPServer
MCPServer
 WellKnown
WellKnown
 AgentSkill
AgentSkill

Design & Contract 5

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Conventions
Conventions
 Conformance
Conformance
 ErrorCatalog
ErrorCatalog
 Lifecycle
Lifecycle
 DataModel
DataModel

Build 2

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

Examples
Examples
 Packages
Packages

Access & Security 3

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity
DomainSecurity
 Authentication
Authentication
 OAuthScopes
OAuthScopes

Learn 1

Tutorials, courses, talks, and written guidance

YouTube
YouTube

Operate 2

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Support
Support
 HelpCenter
HelpCenter

Commercial 2

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

TermsOfService
TermsOfService
 PrivacyPolicy
PrivacyPolicy

Company 5

The organization behind the API

Website
Website
 Blog
Blog
 Careers
Careers
 Twitter
Twitter
 Instagram
Instagram

Other 1

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

OpenIDConnect
OpenIDConnect

Source (apis.yml)

apis.yml Raw ↑ 
aid: brewdog
name: BrewDog
description: 'BrewDog PLC (company no. SC311560) is a Scottish craft brewer, bar and hotel operator headquartered at Balmacassie
  Commercial Park, Ellon, Aberdeenshire, known for Punk IPA, Hazy Jane and Lost Lager, its Equity for Punks crowdfunding rounds,
  and its openly published DIY Dog recipe archive. BrewDog does not run a conventional developer program, but its direct-to-consumer
  store at brewdog.com is a Shopify storefront that ships a real agent-facing API surface: a published /llms.txt and /agents.md,
  a Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP) merchant profile at /.well-known/ucp, a UCP-over-MCP endpoint at /api/ucp/mcp, Shopify
  Customer Account OpenID Connect discovery at /.well-known/openid-configuration, and unauthenticated read-only storefront
  product JSON endpoints that BrewDog documents for agents itself.'
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/brewdog/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
image: https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0822/7281/3382/files/BrewDogLogo.png?v=1724795739
x-type: company
x-source: harvest:secondary-market
x-tier: profiled
x-tier-reason: enrichment-pipeline
x-notice: 'As published in the brewdog.com site footer (fetched 2026-08-02): "Clare Kennedy, Ian Partridge and Ben Browne
  were appointed Joint Administrators of BrewDog plc (the Company)." BrewDog PLC is operating in administration; see https://brewdog.com/pages/important-notice.'
specificationVersion: '0.20'
created: '2026-08-02'
modified: '2026-08-02'
tags:
- Company
- Food and Beverage
- Beer
- Brewing
- Retail
- eCommerce
- Consumer Packaged Goods
- Hospitality
- Agentic Commerce
- Shopify
apis:
- name: BrewDog Agentic Commerce (UCP over MCP)
  description: BrewDog's Universal Commerce Protocol shopping service, exposed over MCP at https://brewdog.com/api/ucp/mcp
    and advertised by the store's own /.well-known/ucp merchant profile and /agents.md. Supports UCP versions 2026-04-08 and
    2026-01-23 with the cart, checkout, fulfillment, discount, order and catalog search/lookup capabilities. tools/list is
    gated on an agent profile URI, so the live tool schemas require an identified agent; the tool set is declared by the OpenRPC
    schema the merchant profile points at.
  humanURL: https://brewdog.com/agents.md
  baseURL: https://brewdog.com/api/ucp/mcp
  tags:
  - Agentic Commerce
  - MCP
  - UCP
  - Shopping
  - Checkout
  properties:
  - type: MCPServer
    url: mcp/brewdog-mcp.yml
  - type: WellKnown
    url: well-known/brewdog-well-known.yml
- name: BrewDog Storefront Product JSON
  description: 'The unauthenticated, read-only product and collection JSON surface of the brewdog.com Shopify storefront,
    documented by BrewDog for agents in /llms.txt and /agents.md: GET /products.json, GET /products/{handle}.json, GET /collections/{handle}/products.json
    and GET /search?q={query}&type=product. No API key is required and no OpenAPI description is published.'
  humanURL: https://brewdog.com/agents.md
  baseURL: https://brewdog.com
  tags:
  - Products
  - Catalog
  - Retail
  - JSON
  - Read Only
  properties:
  - type: Examples
    url: examples/brewdog-products-json.json
  - type: DataModel
    url: data-model/brewdog-data-model.yml
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/brewdog-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://www.brewdog.com/
- type: Documentation
  url: https://brewdog.com/agents.md
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/brewdog-llms.txt
- type: SignUp
  url: https://brewdog.com/account
- type: Login
  url: https://brewdog.com/account
- type: Support
  url: https://brewdog.com/pages/contact-us
- type: HelpCenter
  url: https://brewdog-ijnwidpa3ld.gorgias.help/en-GB
- type: Blog
  url: https://brewdog.com/blogs/news
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://brewdog.com/pages/terms-and-conditions
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://brewdog.com/pages/cookie-and-privacy-policy
- type: Careers
  url: https://jobs.brewdog.com/
- type: Twitter
  url: https://x.com/brewdog
- type: YouTube
  url: https://www.youtube.com/BrewDogBeer
- type: Instagram
  url: https://www.instagram.com/brewdogofficial
- type: MCPServer
  url: mcp/brewdog-mcp.yml
- type: WellKnown
  url: well-known/brewdog-well-known.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/brewdog-authentication.yml
- type: OAuthScopes
  url: scopes/brewdog-scopes.yml
- type: OpenIDConnect
  url: well-known/brewdog-openid-configuration.json
- type: Conventions
  url: conventions/brewdog-conventions.yml
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/brewdog-conformance.yml
- type: ErrorCatalog
  url: errors/brewdog-problem-types.yml
- type: Lifecycle
  url: lifecycle/brewdog-lifecycle.yml
- type: DataModel
  url: data-model/brewdog-data-model.yml
- type: Examples
  url: examples/brewdog-products-json.json
- type: Packages
  url: packages/brewdog-packages.yml
- type: AgentSkill
  url: skills/_index.yml
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-08-02'
  status: enriched
  artifacts_added: 21
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