UncleIan wrote:Looking at where they are, they couldn't really kick on without getting someone else to brew it too, or a wholesale move to a much bigger location. I'm assuming Doombar isn't all brewed in Cornwall. Maybe they don't want to be the new Doombar. Though their TEA is almost as ubiquitous as Doombar around here, but I guess it would be.
It's pretty common for expanding breweries to move, sometimes a significant distance - Oakham, which has just been mentioned (although I remember when it was still in Oakham...) and Moor are better-known examples although I can think of several more on a local level. It is a bit of an indictment of our planning system though that expanding businesses can struggle so much with that kind of thing.
Although people made a big deal of Doom Bar bottles being brewed in Burton, it's worth remembering that >80% of Doom Bar is still brewed in Cornwall, over a million pints per week - Coors have poured £10m's into the brewery since they bought it.