Old Dairy Brewery is about to produce its 1,000,000th pint of beer and Damian Green MP has the honour of drinking it.
To help celebrate the brewery’s landmark pint, Damian will be making his visit to one of the brewery’s most local watering holes, The Bull in Rolvenden, Kent, on Friday 19th April at 1.30pm. He will be drinking the 1,000,00th pint of our beer produced; it will be our RED TOP, the brewery’s flagship beer – a Best Bitter (3.8% ABV) and a best seller, as it is the prefect session beer.
Old Dairy Brewery was set up at the end of 2009, brewing traditional, real ales that have taken the southeast by storm. Boasting an impressive portfolio of a range of different beers, which are sold throughout Kent, Sussex, Surrey and London, as well as further afield, Old Dairy Brewery has gone from strength to strength and continues to expand.
Damian Green has been the Conservative MP for Ashford, Tenterden and the surrounding villages since 1997. In a response to Old Dairy Brewery, who contacted him on the subject of beer duty, he stated that “Following a number of campaigns on this issue, including from CAMRA, the Commons held a debate on the Beer Duty Escalator in November. At the debate, the Treasury Minister responsible for beer duty made it clear that the Government recognises the importance to the British economy of pubs and brewers”. His acknowledgement and support on this matter is well received and valued.
As a rural, small business, Old Dairy Brewery employs a young, local workforce, a good proportion of whom are female, and in the face of beer duty increases, endeavours on its quest to continue to produce good, affordable beer. To put a million pints into context, it means 13,888 firkins (the most common cask size), or 127,992 gallons have been brewed since its humble beginnings. It also amounts to 100,000 kg of malt, 2,300 kg of hops and 330 kg yeast; so the brewing industry is also doing its bit to keep other rural-based suppliers in business too.
