Global Big Beer company Carlsberg-Britvic has confirmed the closure of Banks’s brewery in Wolverhampton on its 150th anniversary.
The last batch of Banks’s bitter was brewed on 30th August and the site will close at the end of September. 97 workers are impacted.
Carlsberg-Britvic which has been closing breweries for a while didn’t listen to opposition from local politicians and the Campaign for Real Ale. Beer production is being moved to Burton but some beers including Banks’s mild are being dropped altogether.
Carlsberg doesnt quite always get its own way. After it shut Jennings Cockermouth brewery, despite saying it wouldn’t, it is now up and running again and independently owned.
Even so the ability of a global beer company like Carlsberg-Britvic to destroy British brewing tradition and beer at the tap of an accountants keyboard is something that needs to be challenged a lot more robustly by politicians.
BBC report
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