For the very first time, visitors to the Great British Beer Festival will be able to decide for themselves between cask and keg at a comparative beer tasting with Harvey’s Brewery. The festival, which takes place from 6-10 August at Olympia London, is the traditional...
← Previous Next → Flicking through all the Christmas food brochures which appear on my door mat around this time of year, I notice very few beers amongst the wine, bubbly and ubiquitous cream liqueurs on offer. In many of the supplements, beer is almost an...
Award winning Lancaster-based brewer and regional leisure venue operator, Lancaster Brewery, has filed record pre-tax profits of £667,102 in 2017/2018 – up 88% year on year – and has announced significant investment plans for 2019.Lancaster Brewery, which...
CAMRA has named the best four pubs in the country as part of its Pub of the Year 2018 competition, one of the most respected and well-known pub awards in the UK.Among the finalists is the Volunteer Arms (Staggs) in Musselburgh, a traditional local decorated with...
(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...
I bet you all have a friend or a colleague who tells you they don’t like beer? I know. It’s unfathomable to you and I. But these mad, sad fools need our guidance because their experience or perception of beer has probably been a poor one. We know that not all beer is...
