Stonegate Pub Company’s multi-award-winning training programme, Albert’s Theory of Progression (ATOP), has reignited this month, opening its courses to over 800+ delegates-in-waiting, with much of the learning going virtual. After lockdown forced the cancellation of...
Quality control is one of the biggest threat facing today’s pubs, according to the Good Beer Guide 2020, CAMRA’s premier publication featuring the very best pubs to find a great pint in the UK.In a forward to this year’s Guide, CAMRA National Director Ben Wilkinson...
Pubs owned and managed by Manchester brewer and pub operator Hydes are currently topping the table in terms of beer quality and cellar management.Cask Marque, the national independent award for pubs serving great quality cask beers, has confirmed that Hydes currently...
← Previous Next → How does a pub gain the Cask Marque accreditation and what happens once they do? Below is our handy guide. If you’re a pub and would like a copy, please call 01206 752212What is the Cask Marque accreditation?A badge of honour to show...
← Previous Next → Some of you may know that I have a bee in my bonnet about service: in pubs, restaurants, shops and cafes. I will argue that you can have the best beer, the best food, the best merchandising in the world, but what really sets the bar is the...
(Reproduced courtesy of Pete Brown. Follow him here.)After talking last week about some general attitudes and behaviours around cask ale, this week I’m focusing in on the sense I got from research about some specific issues around how cask is presented to the...
