Friday, March 23, 2007
Any Beer You Like...
The above link goes into detail
I shan't be buying Greene King again, I used to like it, neither shall I buy Ruddles.
It seems that this company muscle out the smaller brewers - flogs pubs to greedy property developers who want to turn the pub into luxury apartment.
The linked article points to what happened in Lewes, I used to go for walks around the surrounding countryside and nip into the Lewes Arms for a pint or two of Harveys. Nice beer and a very nice friendly pub too. I am quite saddened by this news.
So this is the wonder of the free market. Choice - "you can have any beer you like, so long as it ours"
This passage in the article summarises my sentiments entirely
But this dispute is not just about beer. Across Britain the traditional "community" local is under threat as never before. According to the Campaign for Real Ale (Camra), 56 pubs close in Britain every month, most of them urban locals. Camra's head of research, Iain Loe, says: "The bricks and mortar are often worth more, in the short term, for conversion to flats than the place is as a going concern, even though it may have been making money for 200 years and would continue to do so. Then people move into the new flats and find there's no community, no focus, which the local would have provided."
I shan't be buying Greene King again, I used to like it, neither shall I buy Ruddles.
It seems that this company muscle out the smaller brewers - flogs pubs to greedy property developers who want to turn the pub into luxury apartment.
The linked article points to what happened in Lewes, I used to go for walks around the surrounding countryside and nip into the Lewes Arms for a pint or two of Harveys. Nice beer and a very nice friendly pub too. I am quite saddened by this news.
So this is the wonder of the free market. Choice - "you can have any beer you like, so long as it ours"
This passage in the article summarises my sentiments entirely
But this dispute is not just about beer. Across Britain the traditional "community" local is under threat as never before. According to the Campaign for Real Ale (Camra), 56 pubs close in Britain every month, most of them urban locals. Camra's head of research, Iain Loe, says: "The bricks and mortar are often worth more, in the short term, for conversion to flats than the place is as a going concern, even though it may have been making money for 200 years and would continue to do so. Then people move into the new flats and find there's no community, no focus, which the local would have provided."
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