Eight popular beers will be axed from UK pubs over Christmas

Eight popular beers are set to be AXED from pubs over Christmas. Brewing company Carlsberg Marston's Brewing Company (CMBC) is ditching eight classic British cask beers in a matter of weeks, it has been warned, as we head towards Christmas.

Customers will still be able to buy some of the beers in bottled form, but they will no longer be available in cask or keg format. This includes the likes of Eagle IPA, Banks’s Mild and Bank's Sunbeam, it has also been warned.

The Campaign for Real Ale (or CAMRA) were the first to spot the delisting, slamming the decision as "another example of a globally owned business wiping out UK brewing heritage". CAMRA’s real ale, cider and perry campaigns director and vice chair, Gillian Hough said: "I hope that this change will mean space on the bar for licensees to stock guest beers from local independent breweries, but realistically, I suspect this isn't what CMBC plans.

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"This loss of consumer choice is the inevitable outcome of a brewing conglomerate run by accountants and the bottom line. This is a sad and disappointing decision that puts both the history and the future of British brewing in jeopardy."

The statement from CAMRA also went on and added: "Understandably, where demand has sadly declined we do have to make the difficult choice to delist beers. We continue to invest in and launch new cask ales as well as support popular traditional cask ales ranging from Banks’s Amber Bitter to Marston’s Pedigree."

Full list of eight beers being axed by Carlsberg Marston's

THE confirmed list of beers that are being axed by CMBC is as follows:

Banks’s Mild

Banks’s Sunbeam

Bombardier (keg)

Eagle IPA

Jennings Cumberland Ale

Mansfield Dark Smooth (keg)

Mansfield Original Bitter (keg)

Marston’s Old Empire

Marston’s 61 Deep

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