Archers Brewery in administration

This is certainly a sad day if a brewer as large and as well established as this be in trouble?

Ade

The end of the world is neigh. (Though that might be a horse)

Archers are / were well known for selling their beer at a give-away price. This may well of course be a reason for their current situation. Most breweries are running at a low gross profit compared to other business sectors, so the heavy discounters run a high risk of things going wrong. It is also very true that the ex-brewery price of beer from many micros/regionals has not increased in line with other costs, especially energy/fuel costs - despite how things might look to the average drinker.

I suspect more such news in the future...

Steve Banfield

On Tue, 15 May 2007 21:57:44 +0100, Ale Fan wrote (in message ):

190? Is that a typo? 19 would be too many.

Not for me - I've had some lovely Archer's beers - nicely hoppy golden ales, chocolatey milds, rounded red ales, etc.

The pumpclips were maybe a bit too ubiquitous in pubs, but I had no issue with the beers themselves - very consistent good quality beers, unlike a fair few micros - IMO, sad tho it is to say.

cheers, MikeMcG

Many have questioned how many of this multiplicity of beers are just blends and duplicates though.

Mmmm, yes sounds likely, but while I'm not a massive fan of the practice, some very good beers have been parti-gyled brewed (*)& a porter made by the addition to cask of colouring caramel won a major CAMRA prize a few years back, it was described by a major beer-writer as "one of the finest revivalist porters". cheers MikeMcG (*) many regionals' bitter/special/mild/(poss others) are often parti- gyled from the same mash, but watered down, usually prior to fermentation.