Each month the number of pubs achieving the Cask Marque quality award creeps closer to the magic number of 10,000. This reflects well on the licensees and managers who are using best practice in the cellar, and also brewers and retailers investing in training and...
Brewers of cask beer are forever telling pub companies and licensees how important real ale is to the pub. Now there is research to back up the claims. The 2015 Cask Report (download it here) by renowned beer writer and industry commentator Pete Brown, shows that cask...
We have been very lucky over the years to have some extremely high profile members of the industry giving up their time free of charge to sit on the Cask Marque Board as directors. There is nothing in it for them other than helping to improve beer quality in the...
Cask Marque were very sad to hear this morning of the death of Reg Drury. He had been ill for some time and passed away peacefully on 7th June 2015. Reg was one of the original Cask Marque assessors who helped to define our position in the industry and build our...
Marston’s PLC is to acquire the trading operations of Thwaites’ beer division,including Wainwright and Lancaster Bomber ales. The total cash consideration is £25.1 million excluding working capital and is expected to complete on 17 April 2015. Marston’s...
I was talking to Pete Brown, author of the annual Cask Report, at the launch of Cask Beer Uncovered, the £2m e-learning initiative for bar staff launched this week. His favourite local, Brown said, had a licensee who was fanatical about his cask ale, and looked after...