Posts Tagged ‘brewers’

It was always going to be a tough ask for investment firm Breal Group to be accepted by the brewing industry after it had purchased a batch of distressed brewers because much of the industry (and its eco-system) has an uneasy relationship with finance and money. When Breal acquired in relatively quick succession Black Sheep,…

He’s very modest so he’d almost be embarrassed if you suggested he possibly runs the UK’s best brewery in the country. Reality is, this might just be the case on certain measures. My own measurement is whether a brewery releases any duff beers and on my personal calculations The Kernel Brewery does not produce duff…

Many years ago when my family took me on day trips to Skegness we would sometimes briefly stop on the return journey at a pub that I can recall had Batmans written on its sign. As a youngster this was rather spooky. Only years later did I realise that it had been Batemans that I’d…

While holidaying in Brugge on a family break over Easter it was both an opportunity to sample some of the world’s still-great beers and read about one of the world’s once-great brewers with a copy of The Story of Bass. Such has been the influence and scope of the Bass business over its multi-century existence…