A couple of weeks ago, there was chaos here (Reading UK) due to a chemical leak at a large Scottish Courage brewery resulting in seven employees being admitted to hospital and the neighbouring motorway being closed for several hours. The chemical in question was ammonia which goes a long way to explain why their lager tastes like piss.

If it wasn't in poor taste (like Courage beer), I would say it gave them a dose of their own medicine. But I won't :-)

I'm old enough to remember the original Courage brewery in Reading (formerly Symonds, before being gobbled up by Courage and eventually being closed down when they built that monstrous fizz factory on the M4). That Reading ale used to be damn good stuff, and it's what I was weaned on. I used to drink their ales in Hants and Berks, and when I went up to London I was surprised to find the ale tasted worse, not realising at first that the London stuff came from the Southwark brewery (also long gone now). It was before CAMRA was started, and the time I realised there was more to this real ale lark than I had previously thought.