Der Doom-Bar-Hersteller Sharp’s Brewery in Cornwall wird vom US-Eigentümer geschlossen
https://www.theguardian.com/food/2026/feb/25/doom-bar-sharps-brewery-cornwall-closed-us-owner-molson-coors
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Der Doom-Bar-Hersteller Sharp’s Brewery in Cornwall wird vom US-Eigentümer geschlossen
https://www.theguardian.com/food/2026/feb/25/doom-bar-sharps-brewery-cornwall-closed-us-owner-molson-coors
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35 Kommentare
Terrible for the community in Cornwall. 200 jobs gone in an area where there isn’t much work.
Doomed Bar
Shame, they did some lovely beers, the original Doom Bar brewed in Cornwall was lush
Yet another goes by being forced to closed by new non-UK owners. There has to be other countries that have an answer to this that we should be looking at implementing.
The one silver lining, there’s a lot of local breweries doing some very nice, innovative stuff.
https://brewerynearme.uk/breweries-in-cornwall/
They missed a trick with a name like that I was half expecting a Doom themed pub 😀
Or a hybrid net cafe/bar experience.
Typical yanks. They don’t give a single solitary shit, we should stop Americans owning our companies, they asset strip it and close it down all in the name of profit.
Fuck sake! Yanks buying our businesses and either (a) closing U.K. operations and/ or driving down the standards and/ or quality of the products, services…..!
Bollocks is it ‚financially unsustainable‘ while being one of the biggest national sellers. They just reckon they can incorporate the brand elsewhere for slightly cheaper.
I’ll wager it would have been more sustainable if they still managed to get it stocked anywhere. I haven’t seen it for sale in over a year in shops near me.
Real shame as it used to be a cracking ale as well. When they got popular they changed the recipe/brewing to make it travel better and it was never the same.
Much like Cadburys it’s been shite since the yanks picked it up.
Shame for the tatters of the companies legacy and those who will lose their jobs.
Sorry but the damage is done when you sell out to a conglomerate. It’s the original owner who betrayed his brand, employees and regions.
This is what we get, when we sell our businesses to foreign owners. It has happened over and over again. We have lost so much in the UK.
Not that I drink it but Christ guys, it looked to be selling well. What’s up?
Damn, we always used to get Doom Bar at the pubs in Exeter. End of an era.
Oh well another beer I’ll be striking off the list
At what point do we consider this acts of economic aggression. Jobs lost, skills lost and now again there’s one more domestic product for us to support buying. Eventually we will be forced to import American goods for us to consume to enrich their nation.
The annoying thing is we are seeing it more and more, private family uk business are being bought out by massive US investment / PE / Companies and all they care about is profit. Not the local economy or anything. We have had a number of large audit clients acquired in the same way.
But what can you do when the owners want a big fat cheque for retirement and generational wealth? If it was me I’d probably do the same for the financial security. I’m not really sure how we stop it.
Britain gets so much from the Special Relationship doesn’t it?
Cadburys, Doom Bar, Wrexham Football Club… what other regional institutions can be asset stripped so some Septics can cash out?
America business has squeezed our nation dry. Same old buy with debt, load onto the company, grab all the cash you can quickly selling assets and pushing up prices, then let it sink. End result: them richer, UK poorer.
This was inevitable from the moment they bought it.
They promised not to tamper with the recipe, promptly did which resulted in a less popular tasting beer, which led to fewer sales, and now this.
Funnily enough I don’t see any of the ’stand up for British businesses‘ crew shouting about this.
All in, just another sad story.
Disappointing, feel like they should have sought selling the IP and brewery before closing it.
I hope another brewer can buy the brewery site and create something from the location.
I only buy doom bar because it’s made in Cornwall! I guess my lover will be happy!
Can’t say I’m particularly sad to see Doom Bar go tbh. It’s inoffensive, but in recent years it’s been crowded out by ales that actually taste of something.
Support the fantastic independently owned British breweries we have.
Way to take what was a pretty decent beer and then absolutely ruin the thing
They’ll rinse and repeat the next time a independent brewery starts getting popular for being nice: take over, screw with production and then ruin it
Tribute is still brewed in Cornwall by an independent brewery. A much better buy if you care about provenance.
Oh brilliant, cheers Molson I guess I can still drink carling and coors.
Absolute pish.
Can’t they just sell it rather than shut it down?
Doom bar is a reliable go to for me. It’s difficult to understand it’s financially unviable.
This is the same company (Coors) who ended centuries of brewing in Alton, Hampshire, after selling off the town’s football ground for housing (breaking the covenant), and, of course selling the brewery site for housing too.
We still have the excellent Triple-fff up the road, and the new Ten Tun microbrewery in town, but those employ many fewer people.
Well there is always the St. Austell brewery, sad day.
This is definitely going to go the hobgoblin route of being replaced with a filtered, carbonated, kegged ‚version‘ that they can make in 3 days for pennies in Burton. Farcical.
If you are looking to send a message to Molson Coors, here’s a list of brands to boycott;
Carling
Coors
Coors Light
Pravha
Staropramen
Cobra
Miller Genuine Draft
La Sagra
Madrí Excepcional
Blue Moon
Caffreys
Aspall Cyder
Rekorderlig
Pip & Wild
Carling Cider
TL;DR they want to increase their profit margin by moving production
Ffs, from a purely selfish point of view Doom is the only ale I genuinely enjoy as opposed to drink because it’s the only one there
Doom Bar has become decisively shit since they were bought out anyway.