Greene King

Westgate Street, Bury St Edmunds IP33 1QT

tel. (01284) 763222

Founded 1799.
Greene King has developed a reputation as a voracious predator, buying up and closing such breweries as Morland, Ruddles, Rayments and Ridley's. Beers marketed under these brand names are often offered as "guest" beers in Greene King pubs with no indication that they are actually all brewed at Westgate Street.
Note that despite much point-of-sale and other marketing material implying that Greene King IPA won CAMRA's Champion Beer of Britain, this is actually untrue.

Reported by the first edition of the Good Beer Guide as offering 'First rate beers too often spoilt by pressurisation.'

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Last updated: August 12^th 2008

Click here for a list of some pubs and/or shops stocking beers from Greene King

regular draught beers
Abbot Ale 5.0%
IPA 3.6%
'Morland' Old Speckled Hen 4.5%
'Morland' Original Bitter 4.0%
'Ruddle's' Best Bitter 3.7%
'Ruddle's' County 4.3%
XX Dark Mild 3.0%

seasonal/occasional draught beers
Abbot Reserve 6.5%
Ale Fresco 4.3%
Firewall 4.5%
'Hardys & Hansons' Rocking Rudolph 5.0%
'Morland' Tanner's Jack 4.4%
'Ridley's' Old Bob 5.1%
'Ridley's' Prospect 4.1%
'Ridley's' Rumpus 4.5%
'Ruddle's' Orchard 4.2%
Sundance 4.1%
'Tolly' Original 3.8%
Triumph 4.3%

other draught beers seen in the last 12 months or so
(status unknown)
Bonkers Conkers 4.1%
Chariots 4.3%
Hare Raisser 4.1%
'Ridley's' Witchfinder 4.5%
Robin's Ransome
'Ruddle's' Hedgerow 4.2%
Swing Low 4.3%
Wexford 4.4%

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This is a list of pubs and/or shops known to regularly or frequently sell beers from Greene King. It is not an exhaustive list; there are many other outlets we don't yet know about.

Pubs stocking Greene King beers

All information is presented here in good faith and believed to be correct at the time of writing.
The addresses of old pubs (numbers and sometimes even street names) may not always co-incide with the building's current address (if it's still standing), as street names sometimes change, as do numbering schemes

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