A brewery whose products include the prize-winning beverages Sozzled Swine, Tipsy Trotter and Bodmin Boar has halted production after a burglar used a forklift to wreck the beer vats.

The BBC reported a burglar used a forklift to pierce seven settling tanks containing 5,000 pints of beer at the Ring O' Bells brewery in Launceston, UK.

Worker Geoff King said the brewery would not operate for "a while".

"It's a complete and utter mess; pure sabotage," he said.

Ring O' Bells founder Adrian Carter used to own a pig called Monty, hence the names of the brewery's beverages.