The craft beer brands that are owned by brewing giants – is your favourite one of them?

CONSUMERS whitethorn deliberation their favourite trade brew is owned by an autarkic brewer, but this whitethorn not ever beryllium the case.

The benignant of brew has risen successful popularity implicit caller years, with galore believing it tastes amended due to the fact that it is produced successful a smaller country and not churned retired to the masses.

Local brewers besides churn retired a scope of antithetic flavours, helping non-traditional brew drinkers grow their palette.

The UK trade brew marketplace was worthy £1.7billion successful 2023, with a 4.5% summation from the erstwhile year. 

By the extremity of this year, the marketplace is expected to beryllium worthy £1.8billion.

Over the past fewer years, a fig of the world's biggest brew makers person been snapping up autarkic brands arsenic they look to get a portion of the action.

Now, a caller YouGov survey recovered 75% of consumers consciousness duped into believing their trade brew is from a section institution erstwhile it is owned by a corporation.

Andy Slee, main enforcement of the Society of Independent Brewers and Associates, (SIBA) said: "People privation to enactment smaller autarkic businesses.

“There is much prime than ever erstwhile buying beer, but it tin beryllium truly hard to cognize what’s the existent deal."

For acrophobic customers, SIBA has launched the Indie Beer Checker to marque it elemental for radical to spot whether the brew they’re buying is brewed by a genuine autarkic brewer.

It tin beryllium recovered astatine https://indiebeer.uk/.

You tin besides look for the Indie Beer logo erstwhile buying beer, which tin lone beryllium utilized by genuine independents.

Beavertown

This trade brewery was founded successful 2011 by Logan Plant, the lad of Led Zeppelin pb vocalist Robert Plant.

The London-based brewery became a instrumentality favourite amongst trendy metropolis folk, acknowledgment to its zingy flavours.

But successful 2018 Heineken carved retired a number involvement successful the business, earlier wholly buying the marque successful a multi-million-pound sweep.

Its astir celebrated drinks see Neck Oil, a fashionable tipple with youngsters.

It tin present beryllium bought astatine supermarkets specified arsenic Tesco for £6.

Camden

Camden Brewery was erstwhile the poster kid for autarkic brewing, founded successful 2006 by the proprietor of a pub successful the London borough.

But conscionable a decennary connected Budweiser proprietor AB InBev bought the marque for £85million.

That has not stalled its success, selling implicit 7 cardinal pints of its celebrated Camden Hells trade larger successful 2021.

Fullers

The pub elephantine has a scope of trade ales which are loved by customers.

But the shaper of Frontier and London Pride sold its brew concern to Ashai for £250m 5 years ago.

At the time, the concern said it wanted to exit the brew concern to focus.

Brooklyn Stonewall Inn IPA 

This American IPA is simply a instrumentality favourite among boozers, and was archetypal made successful New York backmost successful 2017.

It was named aft the Stonewall Inn, a cheery barroom successful the metropolis which aboriginal became synonymous with the LGBT rights question pursuing a bid of riots which took spot determination successful the 1960s.

Its shaper Brooklyn Brewery was bought by Carlsberg successful 2020 for astir £100m.

The brew tin beryllium recovered contiguous successful definite pubs and supermarkets specified arsenic Waitrose.

Doom Bar

The ale is loved by trade fans crossed the UK.

It was archetypal brewed each the mode backmost successful 1995, by Sharps Brewery successful Cornwall.

At the time, the Canadian brewing elephantine paid £20million for the business.

The ale, remains fashionable with punters making income of astir £92million successful 2023.