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BBPA launches new website to step up beer duty campaign

The campaign to secure a third, historic cut in beer duty moved up another gear today, with the launch of a new website from the BBPA, where supporters can email their MP asking then to back the campaign. The website, www.beerandpubjobs.co.uk, provides a huge range of...

The odd truth about “choice”

One sunny Saturday morning in 1999, two American psychologists opened a pop-up in a large grocery store in Menlo Park, California, offering free tastings across a range of 24 flavours of jam. The following Saturday they ran the same pop-up, but this time with just six...

Cask Ale Week 2015

This year’s Cask Ale Week runs Thursday 24th September to Sunday 4th October, and theme is “Celebrating Britain’s National Drink”. The Cask Seminar to launch the 2015 Cask Report is on Wednesday 23rd September. Cask Ale Week provides the perfect platform to: Drive...

Sales of cask ale increasing each year

Cask ale continues to grow and to increase its share of the on-trade beer market according to recently-released figures for 2014. Total sales of standard and premium cask ale were 2,204,000 barrels in 2012, 2,223,000 in 2013 and 2,248,000 in 2014. What appears really...

Wetherspoon’s Spring Festival focuses on British hops

Wetherspoon pubs across the UK will be serving ten real ales from across the world alongside a selection of beers from the UK during a 17 day festival (Friday March 13 to Sunday March 29 inclusive). Each of the beers is being brewed using only British-grown hop...
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