Total Fucking Sacrelige

Ladies and gentlemen, we are about to lose a seriously important part of our (South) London heritage. The Young's Brewery is going to shut cos they're merging with Charles Wells and relocating the brewery to the CW site in Herts (I think). Now CW make a decent pint, but it ain't in the same league as Young's beers. The water will no longer be drawn from the old well in Wandsworth by the Thames and this is fucking wrong. You don't make sparkling wine in Belgium and call it Champagne, and there is no fucking way that the distinctively London taste of Young's various glorious ales is going to stay the same, and that is a bleedin' shame. Anyone who grew up in South London will remember the drays drawn by the beautiful shire horses that delivered the beer to all the pubs up until a few years ago. And anyone who likes real beer has, at some point, knelt in supplication at the wonder that is a pint of Winter Warmer, the only beer in the world so good it makes me want to screw the barrel it comes out of. I want questions asked in Parliament about this. I can't see the Italian government sitting back and watching the producers of Barolo sell their land for luxury fucking flats and grow the grapes in different soil, can you? Not pleased, not pleased at all. Plus their pubs are wonderful too, real old-fashioned boozers with beautifully kept cellars and eccentric staff, just as a proper pub should be. The one in the photo, the Dog and Bull , has been a wonderful oasis in the cutural wasteland that is Croydon for as long as anyone can remember, is one of the greatest pubs in the known universe and if CW fuck with it, there's going to be a lot of upset South London chemical heads, not to mention the mad bastards from Surrey St market, beating a path to their door. You have been warned.