Beer - Greene King on the Fire

I hate GK and try not to buy GK beer. The Vintage Suffolk Ale is a winter treat though. They’ve just also ruined Speckled Hen too by dropping the ABV of this traditional ale.

From the Guardian

‘More than 400 years after Guy Fawkes tried to blow up the monarch and his parliament, bonfire enthusiasts in a Sussex town yesterday embarked on a new plot to unseat a deeply unpopular king.

The pub and brewing chain, Greene King, has enraged the people of Lewes by trying
to ban the sale of the locally brewed Harveys ale in the town's landmark pub, the
Lewes Arms. Yesterday, they gathered outside the 207-year-old pub in bonfire night costumes to mock a theatrical Greedy King, who swaggered down the street with a vast gut and an unpleasant leak from a Greene King beer pump strapped to his lower belly.

Lewes has a bonfire-night history of parading effigies of its enemies through the
streets before blowing them to bits with fireworks. Recently, they constructed a
gigantic Gordon Brown caning a naked Peter Mandelson across the buttocks and an Osama bin Laden straining on a toilet. Greene King, whose chief executive, or his effigy at least, was blown apart three
years ago when the company first threatened to stop selling the local Harveys, can
expect a further fiery assault tonight. Up to 60,000 people are expected to take
to the town's streets to watch torchlight processions of men, women and children
dressed as smugglers, native Americans, Venetian boatmen - and beer drinkers.

Greene King has already incurred the wrath of Camra, the campaign for real ale, by
buying up and closing three traditional breweries - Morlands, Ridleys and Hardys
and Hansons - in a campaign which has left it controlling more than 2,600 pubs…