The last of the Britons? The impact of globalization and Brexit on the UK beer industry

The British beer Beer market developed and operated historically separately from the continental and international beer Beer markets. Since the 1970s, it started to replicate some of the trends that were common to its neighboring markets. Since then, the British beer Beer market has been largely dominated by lagers that were being produced by foreign-headquartered companies. As the appetite for lagers grew, foreign-headquartered companies came to dominate the overall British beer Beer market. Brexit Brexit and the emergence of craft breweries Craft breweries could have led to a revival of the British beer industry Beer industry through both more exotic and diversified domestic production and the decrease of EU European Union (EU) imports. However, this does not seem to have panned out. This chapter investigates the Britishness of the UK United Kingdom (UK)'s beer Beer in light of globalization Globalization, which has spurred integration with foreign markets and with regards to both Brexit Brexit and the emergence of craft brewers which might have reversed this tendency.