tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4530972841308721533.post8735796540139013807..comments2023-09-01T11:29:18.150+01:00Comments on BeerViking: Drinking up a memory of Bass Cape HillBryanBhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03550482701819539081noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4530972841308721533.post-87593894628373679572023-04-09T22:46:58.553+01:002023-04-09T22:46:58.553+01:001995 - 2002 closure it had just had a 50million ...1995 - 2002 closure it had just had a 50million smallpack refit and coors still closed it the idiots..fantastic time and place to work enjoyed every minute of it used to work 3 shift then went on to 4 on 4 off continental shifts .. carling cafferys EBPA worthington thistle hooch etc etc we done em all ..miss it and my friends a great deal even 20 years on ........blairs government didnt help either they made interbrew close a brewery due to monopolies comission and they chose cape hill...should of been alton and tadcastor then they could of kept cape and burton ! anyway interbrew played a blinder bought the lot took all the export and sold it on within a month or 2 for what they paid for it originally and coors fell for it basically coors bought a brewery without any product apart from carling lol and that dont taste the same now ( they used to use the well water from cape,they dont now ) hope ive helped a little for prople interested . Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4530972841308721533.post-78182611791613594402023-01-12T17:18:14.085+00:002023-01-12T17:18:14.085+00:00It did seem an odd choice, yes - especially as it ...It did seem an odd choice, yes - especially as it had just refitted and was a flexible site. What was it like in your time, Anon?BryanBhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03550482701819539081noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4530972841308721533.post-82448142984958181132023-01-12T16:39:03.354+00:002023-01-12T16:39:03.354+00:00Hi i was employed many years at Bass Brewery Cape...Hi i was employed many years at Bass Brewery Cape Hill , it was a sad day when the brewery closed down....! missed it ever since and Coors made the biggest blinder ever closing the Cape Hill site, it should of closed Burton they even agreed years later.Any thing you would like to know let me know.......Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4530972841308721533.post-7273028688094445882022-09-23T11:11:48.694+01:002022-09-23T11:11:48.694+01:00It's a struggle to remember details that far b...It's a struggle to remember details that far back - and having visited dozens of others since only serves to blur the memory even more - but I seem to recall it was big and modern, with big steel vessels. Cape Hill was also a major packaging site, so they were canning all these different brands, all made in the same brewery, as well as tankering in beers from elsewhere for canning. BryanBhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03550482701819539081noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4530972841308721533.post-81457579345278515842022-09-23T10:40:10.363+01:002022-09-23T10:40:10.363+01:00It's amazing how much computing capability has...It's amazing how much computing capability has increased over the years.<br /><br />Considering the importance of Cape Hill to Bass, back in the last decades of the 20th Century, what was the brewery itself like?Paul Baileyhttps://baileysbeerblog.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.com