The National Winter Ales Festival (NWAF) will be held at The Roundhouse in Derby from 11th-14th February and is organised by Gillian Hough. This is the second time Gillian has organised the festival and previously she has organised the Derby Winter Beer Festivals and...
Cask Marque are delighted to announce two important appointments made to the management team. Keith Bott, previous Chairman of SIBA and owner of Titanic Brewery joins us as a non Executive Director. Keith was keen to be involved in an organisation that champions cask...
The BBPA’s Brigid Simmonds has written to Members of Parliament this week, urging them to support a Parliamentary motion urging a cut in beer duty in the Budget on 18th March. Early Day Motion 625 has been tabled by campaigning MP Andrew Griffiths, and already has the...
Nine new members have formally signed up to the BBPA-operated SUSTAIN waste packaging compliance scheme, marking a great start to 2015. The new members include Britain’s biggest brewer, Molson Coors, and, for the first time, two leading pub companies. Membership is...
St Austell Brewery cask ale Dartmoor Best will become Cornish Best as the Cornish independent family brewer hands over the Dartmoor Best brand name to Dartmoor Brewery. The Dartmoor Best brand originally became part of the St Austell range in 1993 when its former...
Britain’s brewers have made a huge contribution in delivering reductions in total UK units of alcohol, under the Government’s ‘billion-unit pledge’, it has been revealed today. A new report on progress released today by the Department of Health shows that the...
