"Everybody's got to believe in something. I believe I'll have another beer."
-W.C.Fields
"At that moment I would have given a kingdom, not for champagne or hock and soda, or hot coffee but for a glass of beer" Marquess Curzon of Kedlestone, Viceroy of India.
For me the rot began when they discontinued Well's Fargo and replaced it with the boring Bombardier. Fargo was their answer to the original Ruddlles County and possibly also GK Abbot being a similar strength and style. Does anyone else think their Banana Bread Ale is disgusting?
"Good people drink good beer" Hunter S Thompson
I am surprised how little they have paid for these once iconic brand names. Are Marstons trying to create a monopoly of boring brown beers ?
Youngs + Wells = Whitbread MKII.
Divest the brewing, go into real estate.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/...val-carlsberg/
"purchase will mean the market share Marston’s commands in ale will rise from 11pc to 16pc"
"Do I know where hell is? hell is in hello"