THE heaviest snowfall the country has seen for 30 years has not stopped one brewery from delivering its beer to thirsty Cotswold punters.

This morning Arkell’s Brewery draymen travelled across treacherous snow covered roads to deliver beer across the Cotswolds up to Stow – dodging abandoned cars and trucks along most of the routes.

Transport manager, John Williams, sent the six drays out on some of the most inhospitable roads across Wiltshire, the Cotswolds and into Oxfordshire at the crack of dawn this morning, delivering beer and good cheer to landlords.

"There are some pubs that even our draymen can’t get to – but in these few cases the landlord will get into his car, borrow a tractor or a van and meet them at the closest point," he said.

Brewery chairman James Arkell said: "All our draymen and landlords do whatever it takes to get the beer through.

"Most of the drive has been very difficult, but we’ve made it to all the pubs we had on our round," he added.