| Oh Greene King what has become of you? Bury St Edmunds brewer who for years 08:58 - Jul 20 with 5842 views | Bluedandy |
proudly sponsored the Town now pours cash into Budgie coffers via a long term rights partnership ...
Unforgivable Suffolk turncoats ... your piss awful beer shall never pass my lips again. [Post edited 20 Jul 2019 9:13]
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| Oh Greene King what has become of you? Bury St Edmunds brewer who for years on 09:20 - Jul 20 with 4996 views | trncbluearmy |
On the list with Fosters |  | | |
| Oh Greene King what has become of you? Bury St Edmunds brewer who for years on 09:56 - Jul 20 with 4856 views | britbiker |
Noooooo. I remember the year they sponsored us. Abbot was my favorite ale and then they bought out a special ale as a tribute to Triumph motorcycles. All my worlds aligned for one season. How the mighty have fallen. |  | | |
| Oh Greene King what has become of you? Bury St Edmunds brewer who for years on 09:59 - Jul 20 with 4819 views | Herbivore |
Their beer has always been terrible anyway. |  |
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| Oh Greene King what has become of you? Bury St Edmunds brewer who for years on 09:59 - Jul 20 with 4825 views | Pinewoodblue |
Doubt Norwich fans are happy. Perfectly good brewery in Norfolk,
Don't the Brewery in Lowestoft sell a bottled beer honouring the Canaries |  |
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| Oh Greene King what has become of you? Bury St Edmunds brewer who for years on 10:23 - Jul 20 with 4725 views | bournemouthblue |
Looks like this was agreed last year according to their website? |  |
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| Oh Greene King what has become of you? Bury St Edmunds brewer who for years on 10:27 - Jul 20 with 4714 views | Meadowlark |
| Oh Greene King what has become of you? Bury St Edmunds brewer who for years on 09:59 - Jul 20 by Herbivore |
Their beer has always been terrible anyway. |
I would say not always....but certainly for a very long time. I think Abbott and IPA were both decent drinks back in the 70s.
The change probably came when GK started buying up smaller breweries and "killing off" some very nice local ales. I won't touch the stuff now.
I quite like Moongazer and Woodfordes, but unfortunately they are also on my boycott list due to their budgie connections. And Redwell because of their blurring of the definition of real ale/craft ale.
You can't beat a decent pint of Adnams anyway! |  | | |
| Oh Greene King what has become of you? Bury St Edmunds brewer who for years on 10:29 - Jul 20 with 4691 views | MrTown |
Snakes in the grass |  |
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| Oh Greene King what has become of you? Bury St Edmunds brewer who for years on 10:33 - Jul 20 with 4682 views | BlueBadger |
I haven't touched their stale-tasting swill for a number of years now, since they did their best to bankrupt a couple of good friends of mine who were running one of their tied houses. |  |
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| Oh Greene King what has become of you? Bury St Edmunds brewer who for years on 10:35 - Jul 20 with 4677 views | EastTownBlue |
| Oh Greene King what has become of you? Bury St Edmunds brewer who for years on 10:27 - Jul 20 by Meadowlark |
I would say not always....but certainly for a very long time. I think Abbott and IPA were both decent drinks back in the 70s.
The change probably came when GK started buying up smaller breweries and "killing off" some very nice local ales. I won't touch the stuff now.
I quite like Moongazer and Woodfordes, but unfortunately they are also on my boycott list due to their budgie connections. And Redwell because of their blurring of the definition of real ale/craft ale.
You can't beat a decent pint of Adnams anyway! |
Avoid mentioning their brewing of the Old Speckled Hen to real ale fans. | | | |
| Oh Greene King what has become of you? Bury St Edmunds brewer who for years on 10:44 - Jul 20 with 4651 views | ElephantintheRoom |
Terrible beer with a terrible attitude to tenants which ruins pubs across east anglia. You should have had this attitude decades ago | |
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| Oh Greene King what has become of you? Bury St Edmunds brewer who for years on 10:56 - Jul 20 with 4606 views | BLUEBEAT |
Towen yoot should sticker-bomb their BSE HQ |  |
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| Awful brewer on 11:10 - Jul 20 with 4546 views | Dyland |
Their IPA tastes like soap and the Abbot Ale is loony juice.
They are dead to me. |  |
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| Awful brewer on 12:47 - Jul 20 with 4373 views | Sikamikanico |
| Awful brewer on 11:10 - Jul 20 by Dyland |
Their IPA tastes like soap and the Abbot Ale is loony juice.
They are dead to me. |
Their IPA isn't even an IPA.
If it's even been briefly introduced to a hop I would be surprised | | | |
| Oh Greene King what has become of you? Bury St Edmunds brewer who for years on 12:50 - Jul 20 with 4361 views | marcus1642 |
Actually, I quite like Abbot and IPA. The brewing industry over the last 20 years has become cutthroat as profit margins have become tighter with supermarkets undercutting the traditional pub.
I think it's a case that it's funnier that Suffolk ale is sold in Carrot road. I wonder how the budgie fans feel about this?
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| Oh Greene King what has become of you? Bury St Edmunds brewer who for years on 12:52 - Jul 20 with 4354 views | Herbivore |
| Oh Greene King what has become of you? Bury St Edmunds brewer who for years on 12:50 - Jul 20 by marcus1642 |
Actually, I quite like Abbot and IPA. The brewing industry over the last 20 years has become cutthroat as profit margins have become tighter with supermarkets undercutting the traditional pub.
I think it's a case that it's funnier that Suffolk ale is sold in Carrot road. I wonder how the budgie fans feel about this?
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Did you lose your tastebuds in the war buh? | |
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| Oh Greene King what has become of you? Bury St Edmunds brewer who for years on 13:06 - Jul 20 with 4303 views | marcus1642 |
| Oh Greene King what has become of you? Bury St Edmunds brewer who for years on 12:52 - Jul 20 by Herbivore |
Did you lose your tastebuds in the war buh? |
It's all a matter of taste. I remember my step Dad hating Tolly-Cobbold beers.
On a slight tangent, Newcastle brown is brewed in Stoke-on-trent which I find odd. | | | |
| Oh Greene King what has become of you? Bury St Edmunds brewer who for years on 16:33 - Jul 20 with 4037 views | catch74 |
| Oh Greene King what has become of you? Bury St Edmunds brewer who for years on 10:33 - Jul 20 by BlueBadger |
I haven't touched their stale-tasting swill for a number of years now, since they did their best to bankrupt a couple of good friends of mine who were running one of their tied houses. |
Don’t get me started on their tied houses. I’ve considered starting a company offering support/advice to people considering tied leases. I could have saved 3 couples who tried the GK pub down the road their life savings. |  |
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| Oh Greene King what has become of you? Bury St Edmunds brewer who for years on 17:00 - Jul 20 with 3980 views | ActionMan |
To be fair to them we dropped them as sponsor after 5 years of them putting money in for a bigger offer from that short lived energy company. They've since gone on to sponsor Cambridge as well . It's a business, Norwich are a top tier team, they're going to be doing deals with them if it means making money and increasing brand awareness. |  | | |
| Oh Greene King what has become of you? Bury St Edmunds brewer who for years on 17:04 - Jul 20 with 3972 views | catch74 |
| Oh Greene King what has become of you? Bury St Edmunds brewer who for years on 17:00 - Jul 20 by ActionMan |
To be fair to them we dropped them as sponsor after 5 years of them putting money in for a bigger offer from that short lived energy company. They've since gone on to sponsor Cambridge as well . It's a business, Norwich are a top tier team, they're going to be doing deals with them if it means making money and increasing brand awareness. |
What about their beer though? | |
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| Oh Greene King what has become of you? Bury St Edmunds brewer who for years on 19:50 - Jul 20 with 3782 views | Deano69 |
Does that mean we are rid of that shyte from PR? |  |
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| Oh Greene King what has become of you? Bury St Edmunds brewer who for years on 23:49 - Jul 20 with 3618 views | Melford |
| Oh Greene King what has become of you? Bury St Edmunds brewer who for years on 10:33 - Jul 20 by BlueBadger |
I haven't touched their stale-tasting swill for a number of years now, since they did their best to bankrupt a couple of good friends of mine who were running one of their tied houses. |
They royally shafted a few friends I know who had a tenancy with them years back. The managed houses really aren't nice places to work in either. They're basically a slightly posher Wetherspoons nowadays. I had 15 years with them on and off, went from a decent local brewer who looked after staff to a faceless money-making organisation who treated their staff like cattle. I hate them with a passion. |  |
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| Oh Greene King what has become of you? Bury St Edmunds brewer who for years on 08:51 - Jul 21 with 3426 views | NBVJohn |
Greene King IPA in particular seems to be the ‘Official Beer’ of a number of clubs located a lot further from Suffolk than the inbreds up the road. Nottingham Forest (odd, considering their proximity to Burton) and Aston Villa spring to mind - pretty sure there’s others too. It’s just business, and sadly, just another step in the demise of the local pint. | | | |
| Oh Greene King what has become of you? Bury St Edmunds brewer who for years on 08:54 - Jul 21 with 3417 views | Herbivore |
| Oh Greene King what has become of you? Bury St Edmunds brewer who for years on 08:51 - Jul 21 by NBVJohn |
Greene King IPA in particular seems to be the ‘Official Beer’ of a number of clubs located a lot further from Suffolk than the inbreds up the road. Nottingham Forest (odd, considering their proximity to Burton) and Aston Villa spring to mind - pretty sure there’s others too. It’s just business, and sadly, just another step in the demise of the local pint. |
Your last sentence is way off. There are tons of local breweries around these days and Greene King ceased to be Town's friendly local brewery years ago. | |
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| Oh Greene King what has become of you? Bury St Edmunds brewer who for years on 08:58 - Jul 21 with 3410 views | WeWereZombies |
Spent a month working in the accounts team in Bury St. Edmunds a decade or more ago. They didn't like me and I didn't like them. More of a property company than I brewery when you get down to the bones. |  |
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| Oh Greene King what has become of you? Bury St Edmunds brewer who for years on 09:13 - Jul 21 with 3379 views | Mullet |
| Oh Greene King what has become of you? Bury St Edmunds brewer who for years on 08:51 - Jul 21 by NBVJohn |
Greene King IPA in particular seems to be the ‘Official Beer’ of a number of clubs located a lot further from Suffolk than the inbreds up the road. Nottingham Forest (odd, considering their proximity to Burton) and Aston Villa spring to mind - pretty sure there’s others too. It’s just business, and sadly, just another step in the demise of the local pint. |
They are massive in the outskirts of Manchester, all the (fairly posh) suburban pubs just about clinging on have been converted to GK it seems. I find it really odd but it's no different to Adnams' aggressive expansion I guess. |  |
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