End of an era at Marston's

The taxi taking me to Marston’s head office in Wolverhampton had to manoeuvre round a line of giant trucks at the entrance, all bearing the logo of Hobgoblin from the group’s Wychwood brewery in Oxfordshire. “That’s one of our two top brands, along with Wainwright’s,” chief executive Ralph Findlay says. That comes as something of a shock from a brewery famous for Banks’s and Pedigree cask ales – but the current brewing industry is no stranger to shocks....