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The brewery is gradually shifting away from cask ales into pasteurised keg beers, especially those powered by nitro.

That would be a terrible shame. More fool them if they are though; cask ale is the fastest expanding area of the beer market, and keg ale is the fastest contracting. Aw well, another brewery shifts over those who don't understand business, let along beer. I'm drinking a bottle of Thwaites Stong Ale as I drink this. Lovely too.86.0.203.120 (talk) 20:14, 10 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

It's no longer true - they went down the keg route for the club market, but are investing a lot more in cask now ^[1]. I'm about to tweak the summary. Bods (talk) 11:58, 29 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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BetacommandBot (talk) 02:35, 12 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Specious suggestion, Subjective tone/PR

First sentence of this article: "Thwaites Brewery is a regional brewery founded in 1807 by Daniel Thwaites in Blackburn, Lancashire, England. The firm still operates from its original town centre site. A variety of cask ales, draught beers, lagers and ciders are produced in Blackburn or imported from Europe by Thwaites." Which is carefully written to suggest that Thwaites beer is brewed by a family firm of that name in a long-established brewery in Blackburn - an impression which continues to be cultivated by the rest of the article, with one important exception.

Tucked away at the end of the 'Recent history' section is the only reference to the fact that the bulk of the company's business was bought by Marstons in March: http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/business/industries/leisure/article4398553.ece and no mention at all is made of the fact that, while 'the firm still operates from its original town centre site' in the sense that some offices in Blackburn are presumably still occupied, the original brewery was demolished and replaced by a supermarket in 2011: http://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/markets/article-2028300/Sainsburys-snaps-brewery-supermarkets-desperately-scramble-sites.html

"the original brewery was demolished and replaced by a supermarket in 2011" this is not the case. The sale to Sainsbury's was not completed and the brewery was closed in 2018, demolished 2019. https://www.thebusinessdesk.com/northwest/news/635146-thwaites-confirms-new-brewery-site — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2A02:C7D:2D44:2F00:14F2:6865:8880:5421 (talk) 10:55, 9 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

The whole article generally reads like an advert. Robocon1 (talk) 17:14, 2 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

It was flagged as such seven years ago; nobody has seen fit to remedy it. - Seasider53 (talk) 11:49, 9 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

[1] ttp://www.beer-pages.com/protz/features/thwaites.htm

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