(Reproduced courtesy of Pete Brown. Follow him here.) The latest edition of the Cask Report has prompted quite the debate around the plight and possible future of cask. I didn’t write the Report this year (well, only bits of it) but I did do the research behind it....
Download the Cask Report 2018-19 and read about the action plan to tackle cask’s decline in sales. One of the key points in the report is TEMPERATURE Research found that 85% of licensees interviewed say they take pride in cask ale and getting it right. Yet 69%...
T he 180-year-old Stockport-based family brewers, ROBINSONS, have launched a new quality assurance scheme – ‘Best in Glass’ – in a quest to improve beer quality across their 260-strong tenanted and managed pub estate. For the first time this new initiative will...
The majority of real ale consumers value independently owned breweries, with nearly three out of four (74%) ale drinkers who expressed an opinion saying they are concerned that small independent breweries are being bought by larger multinational drinks companies in...
Siren Brewery based in Berkshire has won the Campaign for Real Ale’s prestigious Champion Beer of Britain award, one of the highest accolades in the beer industry. Awarded on the opening day of the Great British Beer Festival at Olympia London, Broken Dream...
