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Let me bring a few rays of sunshine into a dark world of sleaze at parliamentary level and meltdown among the giant pub companies.
Breweries can succeed and grow their business if they stay true to tradition and good business behaviour.
Harvey’s Brewery, in Lewes, dates from 1790, though the red-brick plant that stands proud above the skyline of this small Sussex market town was rebuilt in Victorian times. It’s a now rare example of a “tower brewery”, designed so that the brewing process — from water at the top to cask filling at the bottom — can flow from floor to floor, using the minimum of mechanical pumps.
You might expect a small family-owned company to be struggling in these harsh times. But Harvey’s sales have increased by 9% this year. Miles Jenner, a director of the brewery and its head brewer, has two new fermenters on order to keep up with demand for his beers.
He is turning a delivery dock at the front of the site into a microbrewery where he plans to make small-volume
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Hugh Madgin 30/05/2009 12:58:58  |
Harveys is by far the finest brewery in the UK. Worthy of mention is the fact that the wide range of exquisite bottled beers is available in standard returnable bottles (shame on Marstons recently for putting Manns in poser one-trip bottles) so Harveys continues to be 'green' where all the large brewers are happy to consign everything to the bottle bank. And Bill Brewer and John Hop (the Harveys NABLABs) are streets ahead of most others' alcoholic beers in terms of taste. How do they do it? edited by: Hugh Madgin at: 30/05/2009 12:59:13 This post replies to this thread |
