The fact the brewery owns “virtually all” its venues is a huge advantage, Nick Love, pub protection officer from York Campaign for Real Ale (CAMRA) explains. <\/p>\n
“All the elements are there for it to be an absolutely sensational offering, with a great brewery, great beer, and fantastic pubs,” he says.<\/p>\n
“You just need the alchemy to work.”<\/p>\n
He described Smith as “a larger that life figure” often referred to as “a titan of the brewing industry”.<\/p>\n
Allowing for nuance in policies and reopening many of the long-mothballed pubs, especially those in rural communities, is his hope for the brewery’s new era.<\/p>\n
“You walk into a pub, you want to feel welcome, to feel you can sit down, you can be yourself,” he says.<\/p>\n
“Pubs are under an existential threat at the moment. There’s a lot of pubs now that are shutting in villages, and it’s catastrophic for social wellbeing.<\/p>\n
“Any that are opening are very welcome. I think when we can see those opening then there’s a chink of light there.”<\/p>\n
The brewery has yet to comment on Smith’s death directly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The fact the brewery owns “virtually all” its venues is a huge advantage, Nick Love, pub protection officer…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":674902,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[84,59,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-674901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-gb","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674901","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=674901"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674901\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/674902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=674901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=674901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=674901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}