Crudgington Brewery

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Crudgington Brewery is a fictional company regularly featured from the early 1970s to the present day in the cartoon strip "Kegbuster" by Bill Tidy. The strip is published monthly in the magazine "What's Brewing" and features the adventures of Kegbuster, a cloth-capped hero of the real ale movement. Kegbuster's drink of choice is always a Crudgington ale. Crudgington's is a family concern, loosely based on elements of several English family-owned breweries, and specialises in strong real ales. It represents all that is good in traditional British brewing. Its antithesis in the cartoon strip in its early days was Grotney's, a giant manufacturer of processed beers based on the former British brewer Watney's, whose reputation for weak carbonated beers such as "Starlight" led to them becoming the scapegoat for all the ills of multinational brewing. Crudgington's 97X appeared as a spoof beer in an early Farnham Beer Exhibition programme.