News, nuggets and longreads 10 October 2026: Queens of the Wild

Every Saturday we round up the best writing about beer from the past week. This time, we’ve got cask sales down, cask sales up, and tips on sipping. First, some big new: Carslberg is closing the Marston’s brewery in Burton upon Trent, citing falling cask sales, as reported by Jessica Mason at The Drinks Business: The range of beers that are currently brewed at the Marstons Brewery and could potentially need to either be re-allocated to a new location or face extinction include: Marston’s Pedigree, Bass, Wainwright, Hobgoblin, Old Empire IPA, 61 Deep, King Goblin, Lancaster Bomber, Pearl Jet and EPA… As a global drinks company, Carlsberg’s reputation is renowned for its lager, but as a UK business the newly-formed Carlsberg Britvic has not yet made itself popular within the beer sector. Indeed, in its former guise as Carlsberg Marstons Brewing Company (CMBC) it had already rung in the closure of several historic UK brewery sites over the past few years with its new business heads now…