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"Hendrixcat":8h5ywkv1 wrote: Bloody awful coming at this time of year.[/quote:8h5ywkv1]Still, at least the jobs are there until March.

There was an inevitability about this: both breweries seem to have been running below capacity so it's just common sense to merge them. I'd imagine the big casualty beerwise will be the BUL lagers. I can see Miller taps being replaced by Kronenbourg 1664 all over the country.

But I do wonder where it leaves the contract craft brews. Heineken will doubtless have the capacity to continue Beamish & Crawford's work, but whether they'll want to is another thing: I doubt they need the business like B&C did.

"TheBeerNut":279fevtx wrote: But I do wonder where it leaves the contract craft brews. [/quote:279fevtx]

How many of these are there, do we know?


You're right though, sad as it is, it was always on the cards.