English beer company cuts ties with Belfast pub following ‘secret screening’ of documentary

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[–]Datachost[S] 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

I've had a look at their beers and they all seem to be that modern style of IPA where you can't see to the other side of your pint glass. There are more interesting breweries in the area, mostly ones that have realised that the route forwards is a mixture of real ales & craft ales (with usually one token lager)

Edit: It's also worth noting that breweries are going broke without even being woke right now. With rising costs, and a frankly oversaturated market (a lot of the breweries I listed below don't really have anything to make them standout, I'd say Squawk, Pomona Island & Marble are the three that have figured out market capture the best). In the past few months alone, Manchester Brewing Co have announced they're closing, Twisted Wheel from not too far away, a whole bunch over in Yorkshire.

[–]ClassroomPast6178 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

They haven’t made it to South London where I am or they just don’t have offerings in the pubs I frequent.

I don’t know enough about the brewery industry, and next to nothing about the various small breweries outside London, but I would have thought that a company in a parlous market might choose to keep its mouth shut on contentious issues and plead ignorance or say “we have a contract to supply them” and leave it at that rather than attract the attention of the Sauron’s Eye of social media.

[–]Datachost[S] 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

They seem to cater to a fairly specific market, which is a problem in and of itself in the current climate. They possibly have a taproom in London, which by the way is a concept I dislike anyway, they're always fucking sterile and lifeless, give me a good boozer any day. From their beer offering they just look like an alternative BrewDog and I don't really fancy their beers either.

Their problem is going to be that this isn't just going to turn away people who disagree with the trans pandering, but people who aren't fans of authoritarian shitbags and their enablers. You're going to have a hard time convincing people you were acting in a just way when you refuse service to a pub, who've committed the grave sin of allowing a private screening of a documentary, regardless of what that documentary actually says. Though this is a perfect example of how authoritarians behave, the person who kicked this off initially tried to force an apology out of the pub, then when that didn't work started going after their suppliers