After nine years at the helm, during which time Norwich’s City of Ale festival has gone from strength to strength, co-chair Dawn Leeder is stepping down to spend more time with her research interests. City of Ale pioneered the concept of a beer festival taking place...
Hogs Back Brewery is reprising its successful ‘Support Your Local, Go TEA Total’ campaign in January, with the aim of encouraging more consumers to support their local at the pub trade’s quietest time of year. ‘Go TEA Total’ ran for the first time in...
Scottish hospitality company Stampede is reporting that, over the course of 2019, the number of pubs and bars in the UK actually went up instead of down – according to Official Labour Market Statistics from the ONS/Nomis. Between 2010-2018, the UK had a net loss of...
Following on from his last Ale Trail experience, Suffolk-based Will Ridgard recently decided to venture to North Norfolk and try out a section of Adnams’ Ghost Ship Way Ale Trail. Armed with the CaskFinder App, here’s his take on the Trail… “North Norfolk is nice,” I...
London-based beer writer and filmmaker Jonny Garrett has been named Beer Writer of the Year 2019 at the Guild of Beer Writers’ Annual Awards, presented on 3rd December in London. Beer Writer of the Year is the top accolade in the Guild’s annual competition for writing...
The BII has unveiled the winners of the 2019 National Innovation in Training Awards, their national awards programme celebrating the very best in training excellence and innovation within the licensed industry. Hosted again this year at the Café de Paris in London’s...
