Molson Coors says site, as well as national call centre in Wales, ‘no longer financially sustainable’

I love Doom Bar and I’m not alone since it’s among the bestselling cask ales in the UK, but it seems that the US owners are going for a quick payout by closing and asset stripping what’s left.

I wonder how long until they start building houses or an industrial park on the old site?

  • fartsparkles@lemmy.worldEnglish
    13·
    3 days ago

    How can one of the most ubiquitous and popular ales in the UK not be financially sustainable? What did they do to that brewery? Lump it with a bunch of debt or something and write it off?

      • ns1@feddit.ukEnglish
        6·
        3 days ago

        Molson Coors said it was exploring potential deals with other producers to keep making the beer, including brewing in other parts of the country. But Stainer added that any plans to produce the Cornish beers outside the region “would be a disgrace”.

        I think many real ale drinkers would say the site is part of the product. If it’s made in a different place by different people, it’s a different beer. Shame this company doesn’t seem to understand that.

        • MurrayL@lemmy.worldEnglish
          3·
          3 days ago

          They make Coors, Miller Lite, and Carling. Safe to assume they don’t know and don’t care.

    • thomasshikari@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      3 days ago

      As an american, I apologize on behalf of these people. I know things aren’t going great over there for you guys too but I very much want to hop over and not come back.

      • NigelFrobisher@aussie.zoneEnglish
        2·
        3 days ago

        I can’t speak for Australia, but I have a great American colleague and I’m sure you’d be welcome here if you can find your way over.

  • Obinice@lemmy.worldEnglish
    10·
    3 days ago

    Let’s sell our country piece by piece to foreign nations so they can siphon every penny they can to their own coffers, then let them shut it all down once they’ve bled us dry! Yay! We r smort!

  • Denjin@feddit.ukEnglish
    4·
    3 days ago

    I know several people who work there and I used to live within sight of the building. I remember when Sharps was a small but popular micro-brewery just starting to get national recognition.

    I predicted that this would happen as soon as I heard Molson-Coors were moving in. Not quite sure how a business that turns over £16m and makes 100,000 barrels a year is unsustainable. Hopefully someone can buy the site and continue producing.