> ®i©ardo wrote:

>> Brimstone wrote:

>>> ®i©ardo wrote:

>>>> Brimstone wrote:

>>>>> Graeme Wall wrote:

>>>>>> In message bt.com>
>>>>>> "Brimstone" yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
>>>>>>

>>>>>>> John Williamson wrote:

>>>>>>>> Roland Perry wrote:

>>>>>>>>> In message greywall.demon.co.uk>, at 22:10:33
>>>>>>>>> on Fri, 5 Sep 2008, Graeme Wall greywall.demon.co.uk>
>>>>>>>>> remarked:

>>>>>>>>>>> If they are moving production to an exiting brewery in the
>>>>>>>>>>> north, why doesn't that already supply the local trade?

>>>>>>>>>> Don't you know how the modern 'brewing' industry works? It's
>>>>>>>>>> all about lager
>>>>>>>>>> brand names, I forget which brand(s) of ditch-water Worton
>>>>>>>>>> Grange produces
>>>>>>>>>> but it is the only place where it/they is/are brewed in this
>>>>>>>>>> country. So if
>>>>>>>>>> you want a pint of eg Carlsberg[1] it will come from WG
>>>>>>>>>> regardless of where
>>>>>>>>>> you happen to be drinking it. The northern brewery presumably
>>>>>>>>>> already has
>>>>>>>>>> its own range of brand names to defile^^^^ produce.

>>>>>>>>> The news story said the brewing would be moved to Tadcaster,
>>>>>>>>> Manchester and Gateshead.

>>>>>>>> The homes of John Smith's bitter, Some 'orrible lager &
>>>>>>>> Newcastle Brown respectively.

>>>>>>> Decent beer is also brewed in both Tadcaster (Sam Smith's) and in
>>>>>>> Manchester (Hydes Brewery and Holts Brewery plus others).
>>>>>>>

>>>>>> Is Holts still going? I thought they'd been bought out and shut
>>>>>> down.

>>>>> It's several years since I've been in Mancheter and had the
>>>>> pleasure. http://www.joseph-holt.com/
>>>>>
>>>>>

>>>> But what about the beer?

>>> http://www.joseph-holt.com/ourbeers.asp
>>>
>>>

>> Well, yes. I've probably sold more Holt's beer than you could drink
>> in a lifetime, and that's just on Friday nights.

>
> If you're offering to pay, I'm up for the challenge. :-)
>

>> I was merely
>> responding to your statement "It's several years since I've been in
>> Mancheter and had the pleasure."

>
> Perhaps if I'd added "of sampling some of Holt's beers"?
>
> It's good kit at a good price if anyone hasn't sampled it.
>

>> I suppose if I can find out where Mancheter is it would help.

>
> IIRC it surrounds the Derby Brewery, it's difficult to remember and to get
> the fingers working in cordination with the brain after several pints. :-)
>
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