Special Banks's beer to mark 150 years in Wolverhampton
On top of closing the factory, the firm also said it would stop producing Banks's Mild and Banks's Sunbeam in casks.Ms Coxon said she has been told about the mystery beer was that it would mark the 150th year of Banks's production and it would not be a dark beer.Camra has been holding a summer beer festival in the city since 1975 and the Banks's factory has been supplying a one-off beer to the event for the last eight years.Ms Coxon said the local Camra branch had had a "good relationship" with the company.The three-day festival begins on 24 July at Wolverhampton Arts Centre and Ms Coxon - who, along with everyone else, will not get a chance to taste the mystery beer until then - said she expected the brew to be very popular.
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