Energy Crisis Will Hit Pubs Harder Than Lockdowns, Say Industry Bosses

A workers picks up draft barrels of beer from a horse-drawn delivers to a pub in Windsor, England, on April 28, 2022. Daniel Leal/AFP via Getty Images

Pubs will have no other option but to close owing to “out of control” energy bills, with upwards of 300 percent price hikes possible, UK brewery and pub bosses have warned.

Leaders of six of the country’s largest breweries and pub businesses involved in the British Beer and Pub Association (BBPA) are pressuring the government to take immediate action over skyrocketing prices.