Sounds like only I&G brand was purchased. If anyone wants the Inveralmond brands with or without the brewery they need to get in touch with the administrators FTI Consulting asap.
Spice bags taste better in Ireland. They don't travel well.
Half way through the #Spoonsfest beers with 14 out of 30 ticked, Elgoods Shug Monkey is the top beer so far despite the more than dubious name. A basic bitter elevated to transcendence by pungent yeast esters and an astringent, addictive bitterness.
Bags of the world, spice up your life
People are now planning holidays to Ireland just for spice bags.
Predictably, Brodog treated the staff they sacked in a typically shabby fashion.
I suppose it would help to be able to go head to head with Heineken/Beavertown and ABI/Camden on bars too. Although I can't see Williams Bros being happy about it.
Tennents have been brewing for Brodog for a while I'm told
We used to say Germany didn’t have national brands. Not true these days.
Part of the endless quest to launch a product with a better margin than commodity beer, which only really worked with the Premium-Pilsner boom while it lasted. I suppose Brauwelt or the business pages in newspaper archives might have something about it.
George Thompson, talks about his time at the Drybrough in Edinburgh, including continuous fermentation and brewing with raw barley.
youtu.be/08_Rd6xhxiw
I was wondering on those dramatic figures whether Heineken was supplying Ireland from their UK breweries for a while.
3 thoughts on this from @laurenleek.eu.
1. Pubs close because of pubcos.
2. "Save the British pub" policies stuff cash into those same pubcos not "punters".
3. Reform wants to increase child poverty to do this.
(4 It's brilliant and via @benansell.bsky.social )
open.substack.com/pub/laurenle...
If you read one article on pubs this week, make it this one.
“Third places: the pubs, cafés, and piazzas where community happens … when they vanish, trust collapses, civic life withers, democracy frays… who is dismantling these third spaces, and why?”
This article is written for what they call “Low information consumers” who still think Brewdog is two guys making beer in their garage and never consider how that can possibly be true if they're in every branch of tesco. yes dave infante wrote this five years ago, they didn't read that.
Lucky you.
Why would ABI launch a direct competitor to Stella Artois? refreshingbeer.blogspot.com/2014/03/heve...
If they'd gone bust in 2010 they'd be remembered fondly and we wouldn't have missed anything.
I opened one during lockdown and it was still very drinkable, although perhaps past its peak: refreshingbeer.blogspot.com/2020/05/1978...
Drybroughs did, or were thinking about it? I think I have a diagram somewhere.
It's C&C, not ABInBev.
Might go out for a few pints of real ale to celebrate.
Hooray!
When studying the history of beer there are two important rules to always remember.
1. If one beer has the same name as another that doesn't mean it's the same beer.
2. If two beers have different names that doesn't mean they are different.
Prague, my old friend. So nice to see you again and share a few beers with you!
tempestinatankard.com/2026/02/09/p...
A glass of twiggy slop for old men
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Perhaps Schneider (which means tailor) should make a beer called Der Wirt
It would not surprise me to discover there were more bars serving cask ale in Italy than in one of its supposed homelands, Scotland. Though even that probably wouldn’t be enough to shame Scottish pub operators into offering it.
In the latest of a long line of British crimes against Ireland, JD Wetherspoon is now selling spice bags.
What's the betting this never returns, like the Dutch Flyer to any NS station that was suspended during covid?
