SIBA (The Society of Independent Brewers) has launched a 5 minute video explaining why we should be proud of British Beer. It features dozens of the UK's brewers from the smallest to the largest explaining why they are proud to brew British Beer. 1500 people are employed in the UK in brewing beer, it contributes £28bn to the British economy in taxes and jobs and 400,000 people depend on British beer for their work.
These British brewers therefore ask why, if they are proud of British Beer, the Government has raised taxes by 26% in the last two years and if nothing changes will tax it by a further 20% in the next 4 years. Currently 29 pubs a week are closing because of high beer taxes. British beer is being abused say the brewers and they therefore ask MPs to persuade the Treasury to freeze beer duty, end the beer tax escalator and stop more pubs closing in their constituencies.
The stirring music of Gustav Holst's adaptation of his Planets Suite Jupiter for "I vow to thee my country" is the background music throughout the film.
By Iain Loe
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