Boddington's brewery to close

they were brewing flowers IPA in manchester. .......... where ? and is it staying there????

Has been brewed at Badger for a year or so.

Are they still called Interbrew? I thought they had become "InBev".

So Bass and Pedigree will be coming out of the same brewery? Priceless. What really interests me about this is the possibility that Bass will go back to being made in the Burton Union. Hmmm.

d.

They still call themselves Interbrew on their letterheads, but perhaps they're just using up old stock.

Then again, the "Dear John" letter from the boss man is signed thus:

"Steve Cahillane "Chief Executive "Interbrew UK & Ireland"

But yes, there is a new outfit called InBev.

I think they've missed a trick there. Surely it should be InnBevvy?

(One of these fine days, a pubco will have the guts and honesty to rename itself InnEpt.)

I'm picking up colossal waves of indifference to the fate of Boddies here. Do any of you drink the stuff?

LOL! And surely it's only a matter of time before someone calls their pubco Inn It For The Money.

Not being from the northwest, I don't think I've ever been in a pub that served real cask Boddingtons, only the nitro stuff, which I really couldn't give a toss about.

d.

Well, I heartily concur!

But you've not even seen the cask version anywhere, and that intrigues me. Interbrew keep telling us (CAMRA) that they're pushing cask Boddies like billy-ho and the Great British Public still aren't supping enough of it. I wonder if the truth is simply that cask ale is only available in the North West.

I would be very interested to hear of any sightings, or better still, tastings, of cask Boddies elsewhere in the kingdom. (Queendom?)

We had Boddie's cask at the GBBF. It all went, but only after all the other beers on the bar had gone. In truth, it was perfectly OK, but, of course, not the beer that it used to be.

I thought that the unions were in constant use for Pedigree which would mean Bass would have to be brewed in the non-union fermenters.

It's a sad story of a once great beer and brewery destroyed by greed, shortsightedness and incompetence. Obviously nobody cares much about nitro Boddies now, and it isn't clear what cask Boddies is supposed to be at the moment. Presumably it'll change taste yet again if it moves to Hydes or wherever.

I've seen the 'new' cask Boddies in Oxford a couple of times - OK, but nothing to get worked up about.

Best regards, Paul

-- Paul Sherwin Consulting

Odd that. Cask Boddies is widely available across the country. E.g. it's been available for years at the Anchor, Wyre Piddle, Worcs, which we have visited on holiday more than once. Not that I drank the stuff...

Brian

Forgive me, but, given the way cask Boddies has been ruined over the years, I'm rather more concerned about current rumours of Carlsberg UK closing Tetleys brewery in Leeds and transferring all production to their Northampton factory.

In theory, perhaps it is (or so Interbrew would have us believe). In practise, not round my way it isn't.

But it's a moot point anyway - given the choice between a pint of Boddies or a pint from my local micro, there's no contest.

d.

Where I've found Boddies it has almost invariably been the case that the guest ale, whatever it may be, is selling faster than the Boddies.

In the majority of cases the cask sizes of each are such that the Boddies is pretty much a dead body long before the end of the cask. If you get a sample from the start of the cask it is drinkable but pretty boring.

In article , Neil Worthington writes

It is not first on my list, or second, nor... Which is a pity because it should be.

In message , Neil Worthington writes

I'm afraid that, after the loss of Higson's mostly due to the interference by Boddington's in the mists of time (mid-80's), if it disappears tomorrow it won't be soon enough

Nor round mine.

Whilst that is true for you (and maybe me - I don't know what your local micro is :-) there are a number of drinkers who are not as discerning - I know a number of people who drink lager in pubs but very often have Boddies in a can. If Boddies was available in the pubs they might well drink it there as well.

In article , Prometheus writes

I just tried some, I found the GK IPA less uninteresting. The pub also had: GK Abbot, Black Sheep, and 6X on tap with TT Landlord on gravity behind the bar. The TT just finished but they have Bombardier, Adnams Bitter and Spitfire behind the bar waiting for my return.

Well, to many readers of this group, it doesn't appear to matter whether any brewery producing more than about 50 barrels a week goes to the wall, so long as *somewhere* there is still a microbrewery churning out tiny quantities of glorified home-brew to be found.

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