The Marston’s brewery in Burton-upon-Trent is set to be shut down nearly two hundred years after the company started making beer in the town.
In a bitter blow to the British beer industry, owner Carlsberg Britvic said it plans to close the Staffordshire site next summer as UK drinkers turning their backs on cask ale.
The Campaign for Real Ale (Camra) slammed the move as an ‘absolute disgrace’ and said it showed that the beer powerhouse did not care about Britain’s drinkers.
Carlsberg Britvic chief executive Paul Davies said the ‘stark reality’ was that volumes were falling in the UK and he wanted
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