The Publican reports on Brains of Cardiff, who have stopped brewing their 45 lager because of dwindling sales.
Arfur Daley of CAMRA Wales has an explanation:“It is not really a surprise – it wasn’t a very good beer.”
What if other breweries did the same and focused on their good beers instead? Some of them do – Fuller’s don’t bother brewing their own lager for example.
I’m not sure it works like that. A lager drinker I knew rated Fuller’s lager highly but most lager drinkers were happy with the international brands that Fuller’s could get cheaper than making their own so it got discontinued.
You probably have a point. But the Young’s lagers were medieocre.
And, of course, as most beer buffs probably know, Fuller’s used the conical fermenters bought to brew lager in for their ales, which turned out to be a huge success …