Help needed adding contract-brewed beer

Recently visited a burger joint called The Round in Keswick - lovely place, especially if you’re into hillbagging or fell running; I’d recommend it. Amongst several local keg beers, they had the following:

Couldn’t find it on RB; the Yellow Site incorrectly shows this as being produced by Shed Head, which appears to be a non-existent brewery. Given that most of their other brews were Cumbrian, I assumed they’d had a special contract brew done for them by a local brewery. I emailed the venue to find out who’d made it.

They’ve replied and said it was actually brewed especially for them by Carlsberg UK (ugh, scrapes tongue) - which was a bit disappointing. One assumes it’s a rebadge of another Carlsberg UK brew, but there are two that fit the bill (which may of course be the same beer anyway!):

https://www.ratebeer.com/beer/tuborg-green-uk/211485/

https://www.ratebeer.com/beer/sainsbury-s-original-crown-lager/116386/

So… as they said it was created especially for them, do I add it as a new beer; or does it need aliasing to one of the above (if so which one); or do we need a “Carlsberg UK House Lager” entry; or do I sidestep the whole issue and just rate it under one of the above two entries (in which case which one?).

Bloody rebadges!

Perhaps the same as this. Molson Coors seem to think it’s acceptable to let restaurants in their supply network re-badge generic 4% lagers as they see fit. My guess is it’s to by-pass any stigma attached to ‘Carling’ by passing it off as a new ‘craft’ type beer.

This was in a restaurant in Shrewsbury last June, couldn’t find anything about it. Same owners have another restaurant where they sell the same re-badged lager. A friend managed to find out from bar staff that it’s Carling.

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Probably not the same if yours was Carling & mine was Carlsberg! :wink:

As no-one else has ventured an opinion, I’ve just added this as a new beer under Carlsberg UK. The admins can alias it or change it to a Carlsberg house beer if needed:
https://www.ratebeer.com/beer/the-fellpack-parachute-drop/1228638

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