The Campaign for Real Ale has discovered a further consequence of the decision of global brewer Carlsberg’s decision to close Banks’s brewery in Wolverhampton next year.
A number of cask beers will simply be ditched. They include beers from Ringwood and Bedford that were originally produced by independent breweries that Carlsberg bought and closed.
As CAMRA notes its the logic of the accountant and the financial bottom line rather than any engagement with Britain’s brewing heritage and customer choice.
Its a reminder too that global big beer remains the most serious threat to beer drinkers not what the Government has or has not done in the Budget
CAMRA statement
Beers to be ditched
- Banks’s Mild
- Banks’s Sunbeam
- Bombardier (keg)
- Eagle IPA
- Jennings Cumberland Ale
- Mansfield Dark Smooth (keg)
- Mansfield Original Bitter (keg)
- Marston’s Old Empire
- Marston’s 61 Deep
- Ringwood Boondoggle
- Ringwood Old Thumper
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