Perhaps the suds were stolen by misguided environmentalists.

A story in New Scientist magazine warns of dangerous greenhouse gas emissions by household beverage refrigerators, particularly from beer-loving Canadians...

http://environment.newscientist.com/article/dn12975-beer-fridges-present-a-gassy-problem.html

... what could they possibly want with all that beer, crazy fools.

By the way having a big huge party at the weekend, everyone's invited and the drink is free, so arrive early before it all runs out.

(Cloakroom's closed, where do I get my jacket from?)

it's christmas and somebody is just getting the beer in.

The kegs will be made of valuable aluminum. I suspect the beer will be poured down the drain.

Guinnes is fed by Nitrogen; cabonating Guinness would be terrible!

If you want to see why, ask your local to pour you a Guinnes shandy.

I suspect the 46k is purely the 'cost' to Guinness of the lost beer kegs as they would sell 90 kegs for a hell of a lost more than 46 grand!!

Either way you've got to give the perps the thumbs up!

The driver is of a stout build...i hear.

"360 kegs of Guinness and Budweiser and 90 kegs of Carlsberg"

Nice, they even got something for the ladies, no self respecting man would drink Carlsberg.

drink some damn beer it might not be enough.Whoever thinks it's for the metal isn't considering the weight of a keg around 160 lbs each full you can steal empties a lot easier than you can full ones. Not only that but most kegs have been made from (mostly) steel since people started stealing them it makes them even heavier. I doubt this beer is going anywhere but where beer normally goes at perhaps a small discount.

Many years ago (10-12 or so) I was working at the Open Golf for a world-famous national broadcasting corporation. After it was all over and the huge derig was under way a large flatbed lorry with crane arrived and started lifting the temporary aluminium roadway segments from our compound. Each piece was worth about £900. After he had finished and left, a man with a large flatbed lorry with crane arrived and asked "Where's all my trackway"?

Budweiser is not beer! It's near tasteless, fizzy yellow water. Ick.

I think you're missing the point - if they're out to steal the kegs, then yes it's true that emptier ones are lighter; however, when the trailer is hooked up to an HGV (as opposed to hauled away by hand) then the weight difference evidently doesn't matter much. In which case, the huge quantity of good beer and Carlsberg is merely a welcome bonus to celebrate a successful beer heist!

Carlsberg don't do brewery raids, but if they did...........

No self respecting man or woman drinks Budweiser either.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/west_midlands/6469489.stm

No yoke ....sorry ,joke!

Carlsberg don't do brewery raids, but if they did........... the men would be clad in black commando gear and would take over the brewery which was being defended by stunning scantily clad female security guards who didn't put up much of a fight but explosions and drama would still ensue....

40,000 pints of Guinness sitting on a wall, 40,000 pints of Guinness sitting on a wall,

And if one pint of Guinness should accidently fall

There will be 39,999 pints of Guinness sitting on a wall...

39,999 pints of Guinness sitting on a wall, 39,999 pints of Guinness sitting on a wall,

And if one pint of Guinness should accidently fall

There will be 39,998 pints of Guinness sitting on a wall...

...28 days later...

1 pint of Guinness sitting on a wall, 1 pint of Guinness sitting on a wall,

And if one pint of Guinness should accidently fall

There will be 90 pints of Carlsberg sitting on a wall...

..boom boom

How come in the small Banana Republic I live in, a bottle (355 ml) of Guinness costs the equivalet of £1,45? that makes a pint less than £2!

... you should come over here and have a drink with us!

"Nice, they even got something for the ladies"

Surely it's a glass of wine for the Ladies! according to the Pub Landlord.

A couple of comments from the beeb that made me smile:

"Police found the abandoned vehicle. It was empty"

"the biggest carry-out this Christmas"

I also note that the criminals waited until all the police were tied up dealing with the anti drink/driving campaign before pulling the heist. Clearly very public spirited as they are trying to remove temptation.

has to be coors lite - bleeugh

like makin out in a canoe 'king close to water

what the hell was one of our local "coyote piss" so-called brews doing on the same truck? I guarantee you that swill's going down the drain, and contributing to pollution too. Ugh.

Why would anyone steal Guinness let alone drink it?!

Its like the own store cheap and crappy brand of lager to other Quality stouts!

Now if he wanted a Good Christmas He should have gone to Murphys brewery in Cork, but then those dubs are as thick as 2 short planks!

UbuntuCork.

"a bottle (355 ml) of Guinness costs the equivalet of £1,45? that makes a pint less than £2!"

I think you'll find that a pint is around 565ml, and 1.45*565/355 = £2.31

My hero , think of all the punters he or she saved from drinking all that tasteless yankee ersatz lolly water or Iraqi camels piss they call a brewed beer over at A-B !

...neither of them is stollen - they're both beers (sort of).

It was 'probably the best lager heist in the world'.....

I'll get my coat

... maybe they were planning a party, with the food coming from here Downunder?

http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/bacon-bandits-ham-it-up-for-christmas/2007/12/03/1196530510392.html

Why?

Assuming it's the Leftpondian wee-wee, it's the only stuff I've ever drunk[1] which gets you from "sober" to "hung-over" without an intermediate phase of "pissed". Will no-one put a stop to this madness?

1 - small-town Leftpondia after Saturday night closing time, and someone else had bought the filthy muck

"Its the duty which which makes it £2.90 a pint - government probably makes more money off a pint than than the brewery"

That's simply not true - although the breweries and most landlords would love you to believe it.

The duty in the UK in 2006 (sorry I don't have the 2007 figures to hand) on a 5% pint of beer was just 38p per pint (there's VAT too but that applies to most things).

The breweries and landlords use any minor budgetary increase to smack a load more on top to increase their margins. It has become standard practice in the UK to increase the price of a pint of beer by at least 5, and quite often 10 pence whenever the chancellor puts a penny on a pint. That's where the real rip-off is going on.

More so than the war, our dyslectic ideologue of a president, or even Microsoft's crappy excuse for an OS, nothing makes me more ashamed of being American that what most American’s call beer. To make matters worse, we have three equally bad national brands: Bud, Miller, and Coors.

budweiser...... filtered through the clydesdales...

1 US Pint = 473.18ml

1 UK (Imperial) Pint = 568ml

Stuck in SoCal and British I would Like to let it be Known Bud is the secound best rats piss the best being Miller Genuine Draft. MGD is not too bad out of a can either. If I was back in Briton I would hardly drink larger and IMHA Murphys is better than Guinness. BTW What happened to hedgehog flavo(u)r crisps (chips) the best ones were made with Murphys.

The beer from Samuel Addams is good IF the damm stuff has not been cooked to death on transportation. Best if you can find a microbrewery.