Couple of real nice ales there - especially the Old Empire IPA...RIP.
"A brewing company has been accused of "wiping out" UK heritage after deciding to axe a number of beers from being sold at pubs.
Carlsberg Marston's Brewing Company has announced 11 beers will no longer be served in pubs across the country after reviewing its product line.
The delisted beers are:
Banks's Mild
Banks's Sunbeam
Bombardier
Eagle IPA
Jennings Cumberland Ale
Mansfield Dark Smooth
Mansfield Original Bitter
Marston's Old Empire
Marston's 61 Deep
Ringwood Boondoggle
Ringwood Old Thumper
The Campaign for Real Ale said the decision will have a "huge impact" on pubs and pub-goers.
The organisation's cider and perry campaigns director and vice chair Gillian Hough said: "This is another example of a globally owned business wiping out UK brewing heritage.
"This loss of consumer choice is the inevitable outcome of a brewing conglomerate run by accountants and the bottom line.
"This is a sad and disappointing decision that puts both the history and the future of British brewing in jeopardy."
Beer company Carlsberg paid £206mn to take full control of the brewing joint venture it had with the pub operator Marston's in July.
The original joint venture, in which Marston's previously had a 40% stake, was announced in May 2020 with a view to creating one of the UK's biggest brewing, beverage and distribution businesses.
The July deal effectively made Carlsberg the UK's biggest player in cask ale - giving it full ownership of brands such as Marston's Pedigree, Hobgoblin, Wainwright, Young's, Courage, Banks's, Jennings Cumberland Ale and McEwan's.
Months later, Carlsberg Marston announced it would close the 150-year-old Banks's Brewery in Wolverhampton as part of restructuring.
Carlsberg Marston has been asked for comment."
Not fussed tbh. Plenty of choice about nowadays
I guess it's had to make a case for mild when most of its consumers are dead or struggling to swallow.
Nothing on that list that I have ever drunk but I guess a bit of a shame if you have drunk one of them for years.
We got some decent local breweries down here in Gloucestershire with a few Tap houses nice and local as well.
In my local co-op as well as all the usual mass produced stuff you can get loads of different local ales. IPA, Bitter, Golden & Amber ales etc etc
Supply and demand I guess
You need to drink more
Am I reading this right that they’re not stopping production of these beers full stop, just not serving them on tap? Presumably still available in bottles and cans? Doesn’t mean that they can’t reintroduce them to pubs if there’s more demand. Or I’ve completely misunderstood.
I hardly ever see it available nowadays but if it's available I'll sup it.
Surprised Jennings Cumberland is on that list mind. That was very popular (relatively speaking) not that long ago.
"after deciding to axe a number of beers from being sold at pubs"
CAMRA always make a big deal about stuff like this but a lot of their members don’t want to pay full price for ales. Not sure how you can argue you’re trying to save ale but don’t want to pay full price for it.
As others have said, supply and demand. If enough people drank it they wouldn’t be discontinuing it.
Am I reading this right that they’re not stopping production of these beers full stop, just not serving them on tap? Presumably still available in bottles and cans? Doesn’t mean that they can’t reintroduce them to pubs if there’s more demand. Or I’ve completely misunderstood.
You're reading it correctly.
Unless I'm reading it wrong, it's also only in their own pubs, so you'll still be able to get it on draught elsewhere.
Hopefully still be on bottles but the piece doesn't make it clear.
Take the point on mild, has always been an old man's tipple and now I'm an old man, I still won't drink it.
Suppose as has been said there is plenty of choice still, but the point is there won't be if the big conglomerates keep swallowing up the indi and smaller breweries just to kill the competition.
Anybody who this has a "huge impact" on needs to consider their life choices.
I saw this article the other day and thought the level of hyperbole was hilarious.
Or to put it another way 'For profit company discontinues loss making product lines which no one had remembered even existed until they read this article'.
TandyAm I reading this right that they’re not stopping production of these beers full stop, just not serving them on tap? Presumably still available in bottles and cans? Doesn’t mean that they can’t reintroduce them to pubs if there’s more demand. Or I’ve completely misunderstood.
You're reading it correctly.
Unless I'm reading it wrong, it's also only in their own pubs, so you'll still be able to get it on draught elsewhere.
It's all pubs:
"Eight cask beers and a further three keg brands will no longer be available to pubs, regardless of whether licensees wish to order them"
There’s some decent beers in there and despite what people say it’s a shame when things with a history which are good disappear. The big breweries nearly killed off decent quality drinks with their monopolistic practices and the way they treat pub landlords seems to put them up against it, meaning even more pubs close. Which I think is a shame.