Ridley's to close

And on Independence day, slight irony there.

"Mike Jones" wrote in news:Wkdye.16032$ZR1.5882@newsfe2- gui.ntli.net:

Oh No! Old Bob was my favourite beer. I'm from Essex, but I live in the USA. so I'll never taste a pint of Old Bob again. Aaaaagh!

Perhaps we should all boycott the Greene King bar at Olympia this year. It won't be a loss, there's plenty of other beers to try.

Dave

news:Wkdye.16032$ZR1.5882@newsfe2-

Or you could go there, refuse to buy any beer and vent your spleen at whoever's behind the stall.... sitting ducks or what!

If CAMRA had any balls- it would refuse to take the money from GK at this beer festival and not allow them in at all unless they promise to keep brewing Ridleys beer for at least a decade. But they won't of course. All CAMRA head honcho's are interested in is lining their own pocket and justifying their existence through well rehearsed media talk, which they have all been trained in. It's time for someone else to take the mantle, Camra IS FINISHED. Local branch members are well intentioned but too busy arguing with each other and organising beer festivals and voting for the pub of the year to be of any consequence. There was a time in CAMRA that members knew that they actually made a difference. That is long gone I'm afraid. Bye bye Ridleys- you will be sadly missed..... along with all the others!

Personally I think it's disgraceful that cynical monopolists like GK are even allowed to operate a bar at GBBF. Oh sorry, I forgot, they pay some money don't they :-)

Don't get me started on GK IPA again...

Best regards, Paul

-- Paul Sherwin Consulting

I think my friend wanted to ask the barmaid if the GK IPA half he tried in London wasn't really dirty dishwater pumped through the rear end of a cat. I didn't think it was good either :-)

Wayne

Best bitter in Britain mate, CAMRA says so :-)

Best regards, Paul

-- Paul Sherwin Consulting

When the rain stops I'll pop along to my local off licence and get a tank of CO2, once I've cleaned my beer dispenser I'll phone up GK in the UK and ask if they'll send me a couple of kegs on CAMRA's recommendation!...... Not! :-)

Cheers

Wayne

What Camra said was that Pale Rider was the best beer in Britain - and that's a bitter, isn't it? Didn't GKIPA get second or something? Or is that really something the anti-GK brigade want to forget - that a small independent brewery actually won the damm thing?

You certainly wouldn't know it from the GK IPA pumpclips in all their pubs. GK don't care what beer anoraks like us think won CBOB, it's all about mass marketing.

It doesn't actually matter if micros like Kelham Island win CAMRA awards, that's to be expected, we all know their beer is good. It

*does* matter if GK are handed a marketing coup on a plate.

I did warn you :-)

Best regards, Paul

-- Paul Sherwin Consulting

Well, Strong Bitter class.

Didn't GKIPA get second or something? Or is that

No, GKIPA got 1st for the Bitter class, and 2nd (to KIPR) in the Beer of Britain class.

KeithS

In article , cobblers writes

That's a good idea, and I have passed it on to CAMRA HQ.

The rest of this posting is a load of bollocks.

As a side note, isn't (wasn't) Kelham Island's Pale Rider brewed by Ridley's?

No it wasn't (and isn't, AFAIK)!

Some of it has been brewed by a small brewery in Derbyshire since they won CBOB. I am not aware of any brewing being sub-contracted so far south.

The winning brew was brewed by Paul Ward in Sheffield.

CAMRA press release -

708 says Ridleys are involved, brewing Pale Island, the contract version of Pale Rider.

David

Fine, Dave, but it *isn't* Pale Rider!