Six-hundred-year-old brewery becomes InBev/AB casualty
By Noah Davis • Jan 7th, 2009 • Category: Beer News
Stag Brewery, one of the world’s oldest beer producing venues, will close in 2010 as a result of the $52 billion mega-merger between InBev and Anheuser-Busch.
The 600-year-old operation on the banks of the Thames in west London brewed Budweiser, Bud Ice, and Michelob Ultra beers, employing 182 people.
Layoffs and closings were expected when the two companies merged — they did it to save costs, after all — but the shuttering of Stag still stings. Of course, it’s nothing a couple pints can’t fix, although preferably not Budweiser.
600 year old brewery!?!? Wow, its sort of a shame, hopefully it can be preserved or maybe a micro will set up shop to keep it going somehow.