Bugger
Lion have bought up Emersons
http://www.stuff.co.nz/business/smal...-craft-brewery
I knew they had been wanting to take them over for a while - but sad to see it actually happen
Thank heaven we still have Tuatara, Epic and Stoke
Bevelhead Dinosaur
Bugger
Lion have bought up Emersons
http://www.stuff.co.nz/business/smal...-craft-brewery
I knew they had been wanting to take them over for a while - but sad to see it actually happen
Thank heaven we still have Tuatara, Epic and Stoke
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Scumbag junkie-looking biker
Not buying that ever again. A shame, as they made some of the better stuff.
Anarchic Wild Child
Do you stil have them? Usually beer goes straight thru' me ...Originally Posted by jim.cox
"So if you meet me, have some sympathy, have some courtesy, have some taste ..."
Blowin up bikes since ages ago
Crap crap crap and fucken crap! I am so sick of Lion Breweries destroying all the good beer. Why Emersons why?!?!?!?!?!
"Some people are like clouds, once they fuck off, it's a great day!"
Bevelhead Dinosaur
'cos they were the best
and maybe 'cos Lion didnt want to compete on the open market for Moa ?
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Forum whore
Oh FFS. First I'm not allowed to be alone with my kids and now this. It's like they WANT us to move to Australia.
If a man is alone in the woods and there isn't a woke Hollywood around to call him racist, is he still white?
Blowin up bikes since ages ago
They are one of the best. I really enjoy a lot of the NZ boutique beers. My fave at the moment being Epic Hop Zombie.
"Some people are like clouds, once they fuck off, it's a great day!"
Bevelhead Dinosaur
Warning: Kirin (owners of Lion) have also bought 75% in the brewery that prodcues 'Little Creatures Pale Ale' - the only good beer brewred in Aussie
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Deus ex ukulele
Epic Zythos. Whoar. And anything brewed by Renaissance. Or Galbraiths. Or Mikes. Or a whole batch of other kiwi craft brewers for that matter.
"Standing on your mother's corpse you told me that you'd wait forever." [Bryan Adams: Summer of 69]
Blowin up bikes since ages ago
"Some people are like clouds, once they fuck off, it's a great day!"
Forum whore
Feral Hop Hog is a good beer brewred in Australia.....prodcuesed by Feral Brewery in the Swan Valley.
“- He felt that his whole life was some kind of dream and he sometimes wondered whose it was and whether they were enjoying it.”
Highway Biker
I Used to enjoy Macs Black until Lion took over. It changed the recipe( I think they started using sugar instead of extra malt, in the brewing process). anyway, it turned to shit.
I see that the McCashins family are back brewing fine ales again under the name Stoke, so all is not lost
Rick.
Reality is only an illusion caused by a lack of alcohol in the blood.
Comfortably numb
So Lion have purchased a brewery producing beer that makes their existing labels taste like the swill that they are. They either operate Emersons as a fully independant entity (unlikely for long) or assimilate it into their collective like they have all the other independants Lion have 'absorbed'
With Lion's operating clout they could make Emersons compete pricewise against the imported UK ales that Emersons are so skillful in emulating, but more likely their beancounters will turn the operation into yet another hop flavoured water production facilityTime will tell.
Blowin up bikes since ages ago
That is my fear.... They've done it before and they will do it again.So Lion have purchased a brewery producing beer that makes their existing labels taste like the swill that they are. They either operate Emersons as a fully independant entity (unlikely for long) or assimilate it into their collective like they have all the other independants Lion have 'absorbed'
With Lion's operating clout they could make Emersons compete pricewise against the imported UK ales that Emersons are so skillful in emulating, but more likely their beancounters will turn the operation into yet another hop flavoured water production facility
"Some people are like clouds, once they fuck off, it's a great day!"
Don't forget to bring a towel
It's no great loss, if you really like beer then you'd make it yourself. It's not difficult or expensive to do.
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