Today the Government’s emergency COBRA committee met to discuss Coronavirus. The Chief Medical Officer (CMO) recommended that at this stage there is no need to restrict large public gatherings or move to phase two of the plan which includes social distancing measures....
CAMRA has launched a new piece of research conducted by Europe Economics into the impact of introducing a preferential rate of duty for draught beer. The latest report highlights the benefits of such a measure – which is in place in Australia – as it would allow the...
Total beer sales increased by 1.1% in 2019 to over 8 billion (8,059,495,997) pints This was growth on top of a strong 2018, which featured the biggest increase in year-on-year beer sales for 45 years A total of 87 million (86,738,882) more pints were sold in 2019 than...
110 brewers have signed an open letter calling on CAMRA to end its use of discount vouchers and criticising its refusal to debate the issue at this year’s Annual General Meeting. The signatories are from breweries all over the UK, and include many brewers of...
The Finalists in the prestigious SIBA Business Awards 2020 have been revealed, naming the best and brightest brewing businesses, retailers, bars, restaurants and bottle shops across the UK. A new hugely popular Brewery Taproom category was added this year, joining...
