Posts by: Roger Protz

The door’s ajar at the Last Chance Saloon

The grim spectre of Covid still has its bony hand on our shoulders. The impact of the pandemic and the lockdowns that followed delivered shocking blow...

Carlsberg juggernaut rolls on

Not content with closing Jennings, Wychwood and Ringwood breweries, Carlsberg now plans to axe the giant Banks’s brewery in Wolverhampton, famous for...

Coming up for air

The arrival of Fuller’s Vintage Ale is a cause for celebration, the beer lovers’ equivalent of the latest Bordeaux wine from France. Vintage Ale is li...

The Devil’s in the Draught Lines – review

We are still living in the shadow of the Covid pandemic and the lockdowns that followed. The sickness that gripped the country had a profound impact o...

Restoring Burton’s pride

Expansion is underway at Burton Bridge brewery. New brewing kit is waiting to be assembled to replace vessels that are leaking and no longer fit for p...

Don't feel guilty – have a beer

Do you feel guilty supping a glass of beer? In all the years I have been writing on the subject, I have never known such a flood of one-sided and ofte...

Burton MP fights for town’s brewing future

Jacob Collier has been an MP for such a short time that he doesn’t yet have an office in parliament but as the Member for Burton and Uttoxeter he has...

Action needed for cask to prosper

I’m frightened to read the business pages these days for fear some new horror has been inflicted on the brewing industry. The global brewing giants wh...

Geoff Mumford – Burton brewing pioneer

Geoff Mumford, (above right) a pioneer of the small brewery movement, has died aged 82 just weeks after securing the future of his Burton Bridge brewe...

Standing on the shoulders of giants

A merger has been announced that, for once, is good news for beer drinkers. It will ensure the future of an acclaimed brewery and it will revive histo...


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