The founder of the UK’s London Fields Brewery, Julian De Vere Whiteway-Wilkinson, a former drug dealer who was released from jail in 2010 after having served half of his 12-year sentence for selling cocaine and ecstasy, couldn’t stay out of trouble.
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Carlsberg UK Buys London Fields Brewery And Brooklyn Brewery’s In The Mix!
If you think the beer biz is slowing down any while America celebrates its Independence…think again. Because while you were setting off all those illegal firecrackers, a major beer international just scooped up another London craft brewery and Brooklyn Brewery is in the mix.
Read More »London’s Brewery Acquisition Spree Continues
Just weeks after Beavertown announced that they’d sold partial stake in their brewery to Heineken comes word that Fourpure Brewing had been purchased by Australia’s Lion, a subsidiary of Japanese drinks giant Kirin. Here's the deal...
Read More »Carlsberg Beer Director Sacked For Wild Taproom Party
The party was described as a 'p**s up' (you’ve gotta love the Brits) which turned into 'boisterous, alcohol-fueled horseplay’... and it happened during the COVID lockdowns.
Read More »Pub Giant Marston’s And Carlsberg UK Join Forces
With Carlsberg sales declining, and pubs closed in the UK his joint venture repositions both companies as they look to a "new normal,”
Read More »Brooklyn Brewery Opens New Taproom In Tokyo
Brooklyn Brewery was one of the first American craft brewers to export its brand internationally and now they’ve expanded their reach in Japan with a new designer taproom in Tokyo.
Read More »New Brewery Openings Plummet In The UK
Looks like the craft beer gold rush may be over in the UK with the number of new brewery openings in 2018 almost coming to a complete halt.
Read More »UK Consumers Reject Big Beer “Crafty” Brands As True Craft Beer
The vast majority of beer drinkers in the United Kingdom don’t believe that large-scale brewers like AB InBev can make craft beer. Here’s what we know…
Read More »Summer Craft Beer Sales Boom In The UK!
As our UK correspondent has been telling us it’s been an unusually hot and sunny summer over in the United Kingdom and when you add the World Cup into the mix…people are drinking a lot of beer, especially craft beer!
Read More »Eastern Promises – Brooklyn Brewery And Carlsberg Venture To Lithuania
Danish Brewer Carlsberg and Brooklyn Brewery have announced a new Eastern European venture. This new initiative marks Brooklyn Brewery’s fifth joint venture the Carlsberg group (three in the last three weeks!), and we predict that it won’t be their last.
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