Airedale Heifer, Bradford Road, Sandbeds, Keighley
Top left a Hey’s wasp or hornet (?) advertising Victory Ale, the slogan was “Has a sting in it”. Picture by the author.
Top left the Hey’s Gold Cup symbol in glass. Picture by the author.
Picture by the author
FROM SILSDEN, YORKSHIRE, TO THE WORLD -
Marston’s Burton Union Room photographed by M. Toft in 2003
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'Cathedral of brewing’ fears realised -
In early 2020, Carlsberg and Marston’s announced a joint venture, with the Danish corporation taking 60 per cent of the new Carlsberg Marston’s Brewing Company (CMBC) and the British brewer holding 40 per cent and receiving a cash payment of more than £270m. At the time, I raised concerns about the future of the unique Burton union system (above) as used in Marston’s Albion brewery.
Almost four years later, these concerns have come to fruition. CMBC has announced
plans to retire the historic union system, a method of brewing using an arrangement
of wooden barrels and pipes which recirculates beer and yeast during fermentation.
This system was developed in Burton-
Carlsberg: probably the worst respecter of brewing tradition in the world.