Brakspear's not Special any more?

Odd & sad if unconirmed & unaccredited report (*) that Refresh/ Wychwood/Brakspear last month ceased brewing Braskpear Special.

Anyone closer to the source got any more info?

(*) - source of info -

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- "Refresh UK was set up in 2000 as a contract brewing business by some of the former managers of Ushers. Refresh UK now have two brewing plants of their own in Witney. Production of Brakspear Special draught ale is scheduled to end at the end of June 2007." which in itself, AFAIK isn't entirely correct - there is only one brewing plant (brewhouse) at Witney, with 2 fermenting rooms for Wychwood & Brakspear. (& Mann's, Ushers, etc, I'm not sure!)

cheers MikeMcG

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MikeMcG
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Still listed on their web site Mike.

Peter

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Peter Alexander

Aye & no mention on Refresh's site or the Brakspear pub co site (now owned by JT Davies).

Still I can't believe Wikipedia is wrong though ;~) TTFN Mike.

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MikeMcG

Wikipedia is not a "primary source". Every information on a wikipedia page should be backed by a reference... that news about Brakspear was not, so after reading this thread I removed it from the page. (BTW anyone could make such corrections, even if he is not regsistered).

ciao max (previously maxbeer or Rosalba & Massimo)

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barliman

Hi Max, good on you for editing the wiki entry - I wonder where it came from?

I previously edited the same entry a while back when there was a load of nonsense up there about the dropping system (which now seems to be known as the 'double drop' for some reason) though pro-writers have also made a mess of that one before - saying that the beer spent several days in the upper vessel, rather than simply being dropped the next day.

I've just corrected the bit about refresh having 2 brewing plants at Witney - they have one brewhouse & 2 fermentation rooms (one with the Brakspear 'dropping vessels') cheers MikeMcG

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MikeMcG

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