Our Greene King Local Pubs are more than just bricks and mortar. Every one of them is unique, each with a different tale to tell, which makes them special to visit. CLICK THE FLYER BELOW TO DOWNLOAD A PRINT QUALITY PDF. View menus, order your food & drink, and pay for your bill all from the comfort of your table! IPA Gold (4.1%) Greene King has revealed it will launch a programme to raise awareness about slavery after admitting it was 'inexcusable' that its founder profited from the transatlantic slave trade. Whitbread still operates pubs but the bulk of its sales come from the Premier Inn budget hotel chain. « The Northern Beer Blog, Pingback: Greene King’s New Beers – The Response « The Northern Beer Blog, Pingback: The CAMRGB End Of Year Report 2012 | CAMRGB, Pingback: Greene King Strong Suffolk Dark Ale (6%) | CAMRGB, Your email address will not be published. Our pubs are anything you want them to be – the places where friendships are made, where many fall in love, where life is celebrated and where memories of friends and family are shared. This information can be found on any past invoice or statement. Greene King Customer Care Team Abbot House Westgate Brewery Bury St Edmunds Suffolk IP33 1QT Email: CustomerCareTeam@greeneking.co.uk Phone: 0845 850 4545 I’m afraid that even that didn’t help. Bury St Edmunds Download now. This information can be found on any past invoice or statement. And, having seen the spike in Fuller's shares today, it would be remarkable if they were not giving some thought to offloading their brewing arms too. CAMRGB is FREE but a little help with upkeep would be very welcome. Greene King has agreed to sell the pubs but last week said CMA approval was no longer a condition for completing the deal. Let’s just say I won’t bother reviewing that one. Abbot House Pubpaper 651 – “Hybrid” beers continued and more possible Greene King dross? I can’t imagine anybody that I know being taken in by this. But the only genuinely major national players to still have a "vertically integrated" model of brewing and running pubs are Marston's and Greene King. Fuller, Smith & Turner's decision to sell its brewing arm to Asahi of Japan has come as a shock to legions of beer lovers. We have around 900 Greene King Local Pubs. It has that same aroma tinged with cleaning fluid and a hint of vomit. This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Some smaller regional players, such as Yorkshire-based Samuel Smith's, Kent-based Shepherd Neame, Suffolk-based Adnams and Bristol-based Butcombe, are still set up in this way. Sadly too, there’s already the beginnings of that ashtray taste that I have come to associate with light strike from clear bottles. The assumption will be that Asahi is really only interested in the blockbuster London Pride brand. Learn how your comment data is processed. Icon Their real foundations are the people and communities that they bring together. The company has clearly been finding the going tough and the chance to exit brewing at such a full price will have proved irresistible to the Fuller and Turner families who still own just over half the shares in the company. I now think inviting various beer writers around the brewery, myself included, was all part of the build up to this, which I guess is fair enough from a marketing and publicity point of view. Greene King Customer Care Team Abbot House Westgate Brewery Bury St Edmunds Suffolk IP33 1QT Email: CustomerCareTeam@greeneking.co.uk Phone: 0845 850 4545 This information can be found on any past invoice or statement. Analyst David Blennerhassett told the FT that CK Assets has a track record of buying such assets in the UK and he does not expect it to sell Greene King later as a bet on the falling pound. For the record, with both these beers I made sure that I tried them as my first beer of the evening so as to try them with a fresh palate. So why is it selling? Bass became Intercontinental Hotel Group. Greene King Customer Care Team Abbot House Westgate Brewery Bury St Edmunds Suffolk … Our pubs are high-energy, upbeat and focused on providing quality food, local ales and fine wine. Hong Kong’s richest family is to buy the 220-year-old pub and beer company Greene King for £2.7bn, the equivalent of £1m for every one of its 2,700 pubs, restaurants and hotels. Greene King’s past and present workers in Bury St Edmunds are seeking clarity over jobs and pensions after the brewing and pubs giant announced it was the subject of a £2.7bn takeover deal. IP33 1QT We’ve got buildings rich with history, modern vibrant bars and everything in between. Check out our property site . According to the Financial Times, the holding company is taking the view that the pubs owned by Greene King are an asset that is safe from potential recession. It has said trading in Spirit shares will be suspended from Tuesday (23 June). Greene King have a good brewer and a fantastic brewery but they seem driven by using as few ingredients as possible. The price tag, more than 23 times the cashflow generated by the brewing business, is high by the standards of these deals. And then there’s the bottles. Immediately there’s that Greene King taste that so many of … Looking for a pub? And to rub salt into the wounds, as well as sending a bottle each of the new beers, I was sent a Greene King IPA in a Smoothflow can. They can argue all they like that it’s the best selling ale in the UK but you can do wonderful things with heavy marketing (the beer of the Rugby World Cup for example) as I found when running record labels and trying to sell my artists’ albums. Hundreds of craft brewers have emerged in recent years and the Morning Advertiser, the industry paper, reckons there are now more than 2,000 across the UK - the highest total since the 1930s - including dozens in the capital, including Whitechapel-based One Mile End, Hackney-based Five Points, Battersea-based Sambrook's, Bermondsey-based Kernel Brewery and Ealing-based Weird Beard. Allied sold itself to Carlsberg. Let’s just say I won’t bother reviewing that one. Simon Emeny, the chief executive, pointed out that the group's managed pubs and hotels already contribute 87% of operating profits.