Greene King Prior Life All Day IPA is Not Vegan Friendly

Company email (August 2024)
"Unfortunately no - none of our beers can be recommended to Vegans.

We do have 3 beers that are brewed as suitable for Vegetarians as we have removed isinglass finings from them. These are Ruddles Best in Keg format, Hazy Day and Prior Life in all pack formats. We do not recommend for Vegans however as we have not had a strict audit of all our processes to be able to comfortably make this statement.

Our brand owners are aware that some beer consumers may be vegan but currently we have no firm plans to change other recipes. If or when we make any such change we would make it clear on packaging and marketing material. It is very unlikely that cask conditioned beers would make the change from isinglass in the near future as it is an extremely effective clarification material."

Company email (February 2023)
"We still use isinglass in all our beers although are looking to remove it from some bottles, can and keg beers. Trials are currently being carried out.

For Cask ales isinglass is the best material currently for clarifying the beers and there is no plans for changing that at the moment."

Company email (August 2017)
"Currently, we do not have any plans to stop using isinglass in our beers..."

Company Email (circa 2010):
"We do use isinglass in all our beers as do almost all brewers and wine producers - from a bottle point of view these are then all filtered out, an from a cask ale point of view these remain in the cask after serve."

Company Email (circa 2009):

"I can confirm that there are no animal derived Ingredients in our beers including IPA.

We do however use Isinglass Finings as a Process Aid to clarify our beers. In the case of bottles and cans the sediment including the isinglass is removed and the beers are subsequently filtered. There is therefore no likelihood of measurable amounts of the isinglass remaining. With cask beer the isinglass is added in cask and the beer is sedimented in the pub cellar. The sediment remains at the bottom of the cask and the clarified beer is served. There is therefore a possibility of trace amounts of isinglass being in the beer.

We do not recommend our beers to either vegans or vegetarians because of the use of isinglass as a clarifying aid but leave the decision whether to drink them up to the individual. "

Note from Brian
"Old Speckled Hen & Tanner's Jack say they're brewed at Morland brewery which is actually just part of Greene king, as well as Wexford Irish Creme Ale which is brewed by Greene King but really not even listed on their website."