It lists (on the back) all the breweries that Whitbread bought and closed.

I bought that shirt about the same time that Miller bought into the Celis Brewery in Texas. Five years later it was closed. In this case not because somebody was gobbling up pub estates but because the macrobrewery clearly didn’t understand how to operate on a small scale.

Here in the UK we have seen too many buyouts-and-closedowns. Fullers of London swallowing Gales of Hampshire is a recent example, though Greene King’s back catalogue of shame is a hefty one and wouldn’t fit through your letterbox. That tends to be our experience, so the moment one brewery starts sniffing around another it causes alarm.

By the way – the guy in the illustration looks remarkably like Winston Churchill.

OD will become to geeks what Widmer and RedHook has. A blur on the infinite radar.

Sad.

Cheers!