0 a type of beer that is made by a different company from the one that normally supplies the beer in a bar, and is sold in the bar for a short time --
In 1989, the beer orders obliged the then six large brewers to permit their tied tenants to sell a guest beer.
It has been made clear that the requirement to allow tied tenants to choose a guest beer will apply only to the national brewers.
There is no doubt that the small local brewers will have access, to use his word, to the guest beer proposal.
Why has he not taken a clear decision to establish the principle of the small brewers having access to the supply of guest beer?
A supplier of guest beer can be any brewer, national as well as regional, but that has always been the position.
That is what a guest beer really is.
We are clear that we should specify that the guest beer should be cask-conditioned; that is to say, a real beer of individual character.
We do not believe that the guest beer provision breaches article 30 of the treaty.
