A thread to keep track of breweries that are closing/for sale/administrated/liquidated
Two to start;
Oakleaf have gone into administration today
Binghams are - as far as I'm aware - still up for sale
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A thread to keep track of breweries that are closing/for sale/administrated/liquidated
Two to start;
Oakleaf have gone into administration today
Binghams are - as far as I'm aware - still up for sale
Any idea why? Is it just too crowded a market? I know both of those supply Wetherspoon pubs but mostly local ones. I wonder how all those Yorkshire breweries get by.
Brodie's are not currently brewing in Leyton but I think at the Wobbly brewery in Hereford. The Leyton brewery is supposed to be having work done but there are other issues with the pub. I haven't been there for a few months as I've heard it's pretty grim.
Oakleaf - presume they've run out of money for whatever reason
Binghams - health issue with the owner.
Brodies seem to have really fallen hard and fast. Their beers were a staple at the Nags a few years back. Not drank (or seen) any of theirs round here for well-over a year.
The market is most definitely crowded,there will I think some absorbsion going on, a recent example being Bath Ales being brought by St Austell.
The Florist also a goner cos of Oakleaf
couple of little breweries gone are
Abbey Ford -egham
Hoptimists-surrey
bigger ones recently
Freeminer
Celt Experience
brewpubs in London
Still and Star e1 only brewed for a few months but have seemed to have stopped brewing
Florence brewpub se24 have been shut for a few months
George and dragon w3 home to dragonfly brewery up for sale £1.8 million
Bull at Highgate sold so no more brewing of London brewing beers but still available from the Bohemia brewpub north finchley
Freeminer have been around for years. Maybe them supplying bottles to the Co-Op was a sign of problems.
Celt Experience are one I've tried in various Spoons and have ben excellent. Maybe they just don't have enough local outlets.
I'm glad you told ne about the Bull in Highgate as it saves me from ever going there again. I've heard that the Gate House under the new regime has a reduced beer choice and is generally a rip off.
Been told it was a 'life decision' by the brewer. But appears he hasn't put the business as a whole up for sale and is flogging it off piecemeal, which is a real shame. Celt were one of my favourites, La Tene was a classic down the Nags 2014-2015 one of the few beers not local that made repeat appearances.
In Kent The Dog House and Sunshine Brewery have just closed. Not sure if the brewery part ever really got going.
Sunny Republic have gone as well.
Late Knights brewery have closed. They have also closed the Hopsmiths pub in Crouch Hill.Their other 6 pubs will continue but under a different management.
Waen - https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?f...type=3&theater
Sounds like the name my live on via Hopcraft to a certain extent.
Fisher Brewery in Noke have gone.
No great loss, I'd say.
Otley up for sale - http://www.walesonline.co.uk/busines...ut-up-11982452
Quantock in administration
http://www.quantockbrewery.co.uk/new...&id=1000836%2F
Never heard of them, tbh
Looks like the end for Wrekin Brewery (formerly Ironbridge) , both their pubs have changed hands the Fighting Cocks has gone to Hop and Stagger Brewery and the Pheasant where the Brewery was situated has gone to Rowton Brewery , Rowton are to continue brewing the bestseller Wrekin Gold but whether at the pub brewery or at their own is not yet known .
That link does not work Quinno, try this one. Iv'e heard of them but cant remember any of their beers.
A nice bit of Somerset murk in the picture.
Their Wills Neck was the winner in SIBA's national competition 2013 and class Gold Medalist in 2013 & 2014, I vaguely remember it being a runner up in Camra's Champion Beer of Britain competition but that isn't on their website so I could be wrong. I had it around then and thought it a pretty good drop.
I've seen and tried Will's Neck in JDWs. Their Plastered Pheasant is on the current National list. I tried it in the Southsea JDW the Thursday before last and it was a pleasant enough strongish dark beer. You need to be quite a big brewer to get on the JDW national list as I would guess you need to potentially supply up to 200 barrels. Maybe they are just too big for the area they are based and of course there is cider as a distraction.
Its probably because they sell beer to Wetherspoons that they have gone bust. As we know Wetherspoons buy it cheaply but you need to be selling large quantities to make it economical.They have an 8bbl kit as far as I know which is not the scale you would need to make money. Somerset with its lack of freehouses has always been a minefield for brewers.
Brodies brewery was wound up on 3rd of October last year also on the same page of liquidations were Milk Street from Somerset.Both breweries beers have been spotted recently.
Brodies beers according to the pumpclip but brewed in Wales.
Wetherspoon didn't force them to sell their beer to them! The fact they had to is the point. From what I've heard from a local brewer Enterprise are just as bad, nailing the price paid down then inflating the price to the pub.
I'm surprised how many respected brewers are on the JDW national list. Most breweries don't want to know unless it's a local arrangement. Even old regionals are included, Batham's never have, Holden's don't seem to have bothered for a while, I'm sure Bateman's XXXB used to be a regular but isn't on the current list, Harvey's never have and I don't recall seeing Hall & Woodhouse for a while.
I've checked the new national list and believe there are four new names on it, Brecon, Glamorgan Vale, Dukeries and Goddards. Let's hope it's not the kiss of death!!