“We're not used to big, wealthy owners of large companies coming in and punching down on small, independent breweries."
“I don’t like the beer,” he said. “Does that ever occur to anybody that I have tasted it and I don’t even like it?“So no, I’ll choose what beer we have and I hope people like it. I like what we’ve got.”this afternoon, Ballykilcavan Brewery owner David Walsh-Kemmis said the real reason his business is being blocked from the festival is because “the world's second largest brewery” is paying him money to “keep us and everyone else out”.
“I mean, Mr Benn is obviously entitled to his opinions, but if he doesn't like our beers, I'd say he's in a very small minority. “I mean, I would argue that it's wildly anti-competitive but it's perfectly legal for a festival organizer to take large amounts of sponsorship money from a big multinational, give them exclusivity and exclude everyone else.