Perusing The Times on 27th December I noted a piece about a meeting between Defence Secretary John Healy and his Australian counterpart Richard Marles in July when they went to the Rockingham Arms in Wentworth and had a pint brewed by the local Rotherham Chantry brewery.
The report says that Healy’s favourite beer is Timothy Taylor’s Landlord and quotes him as saying that the Small Brewers Tax Relief introduced by Labour in 2002 (and tweaked by the Tories last year) had led to a ‘renaissance of proper brewing and beer drinking’.
Reading on a few pages I also noted an article about the campaign to save Banks’s Mild which global brewer Carlsberg plans to stop brewing from next week after 150 years. A petition has gathered 8,500 signatures and the support of Noddy Holder who appeared in adverts for the beer in the 1990s.
According to Carlsberg in order to grow their cask beer offering it is necessary to stop brewing an historic and much loved cask beer.
Perhaps John Healy could have a word.
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