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Yippee! We're finally moving on to the final part of my guide to 1970s breweries: the Big Six. Who, at the time, operated a large number...

The company was formed in 1967 by the merger of Charrington United Breweries and Bass Mitchells & Butlers.  Creating the largest brewing...

Unlike the other large brewing groups, which had mostly coalesced around one large brewery, Allied was more like a merger of equals. Those p...

More in the inimitable management style of H Alan Walker (HAW). When Bass M & B merged with Charrington United Breweries in 1967, Walker...

Today I'm going to publish some excerpts from Anthony Avis's wonderful memoir: "The Brewing Industry 1950 - 1990" They all...

I have very mixed feelings about Courage. Having ended up owning both of the brewers in my hometown of Newark, they owned almost all the pub...

It may be hard to believe now, but the Big Six, in their prime during the 1970s, were some of the largest brewing groups in the world. But, ...

I have very mixed feelings about Courage. Having ended up owning both of my hometown of Newark’s brewers, they owned almost all the pubs. A...

In the 1950s the first truly national brewing companies began to form. As the coalescing groups bought more rivals, it inevitably whittled d...

In the 1970s, the Big Six totally dominated UK brewing. Yet by 2000, only Scottish Courage really remained, the rest having been gobbled up ...

My final part on the Big Six, this time covering numbers 5, 6 and 7. Watney The most hated of breweries amongst the CAMRA faithful. For the ...

More stuff on the demons of 1970s brewing. How evil they were. The ones who supped at the devils hosepipe. Two more Big Six members. Courage...

Today we're going to look at a couple of the Big Six members. Specifically Allied Breweries and Bass Charrington. Allied Breweries Unlik...

The buying spree initiated by Eddie Taylor in the 1950s and 1960s came to an end in the 1970s, when the Labour government stopped further ta...