Hook Norton is brewing half the amount of beer it was 15 years ago, but a wider variety, and Clarke believes there is a “small renaissance in the traditional styles of beer”.
Webb added: “The part of the beer market that’s holding up or growing is the interesting part.
“So you’ve got heritage beers, craft beers, in some cases very strange wacky new types of beer – those are all doing fine.”
“What is slowly but surely contracting, and has been for decades now, is the bright, shiny, frothy top, see-through lager market.”
A crucial part of continued success for Hook Norton has been finding ways to diversify.
Clarke said: “We were probably the first with a visitor centre of any scale and we were one of the first with a microbrewery within the main brewery.”
