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The Excitement of Live TV
Annabel Smith, Cask Marque Training Manager & Beer Sommelier talks about her appearance on TV on 'This Morning' to talk about matching stouts and food for St Patrick's Day.
Live Beer Tasting on ITV’s This Morning
The day before…
The call came through on a Tuesday afternoon, just less than a week before the event. Could I go on ITV’s...
What’s your favourite pub?
By Annabel Smith, Cask Marque Training Manager.
I’m always a little wary of being asked the question “which is your favourite pub?” as it leads to lots of complications. If I name one particular pub, I risk offending a hundred others who inevitably demand to know why I haven’t named them.
It’s a bit like asking me what my favourite...
Cross party appreciation for beer by women MPs
In an evening designed to span political divisions, Dea Latis, the industry’s beer and women forum, this week hosted the first-ever beer tasting designed for women MPs at the House of Commons.
A lively crowd of over 50 women (and some brave men) were guests of Charlotte Leslie MP, Meg Hillier MP and Jenny Willot MP who sponsored the event....
Cambridgeshire Man Becomes First To Reach 1000th Cask Ale Scan
A Cambridgeshire man has become to first to visit 1,000 pubs as part of Cask Marque’s World’s Biggest Ale Trail.
The Ale Trail is one of the features of the Cask Marque phone app (CaskFinder), which pinpoints cask ale pubs across the country. Users can ‘scan’ the Cask Marque certificate in pubs across the country where they will automatically be...
Tale of Two Cities
By Annabel Smith, Cask Marque training manager and Beer Sommelier.
Earlier on this year, I went to Bruges for the weekend with my lovely other half. I had heard many other beery people talk about how fantastic Bruges is, and we both felt it was a gap in our beer education. So under the guise of widening our knowledge we...
Beer and chocolate tasting wows Leeds ladies
A group of women in Leeds yesterday joined the growing number of female beer drinkers when the Leeds Brewery Tap hosted a pre-Easter beer and chocolate tasting.
The tasting was organised by Dea Latis - named after the Celtic goddess of beer - a nationwide group aiming to encourage more women to enjoy beer. They have staged beer and chocolate...
New release of CaskFinder App
For those of you lucky enough to have an iPhone or Android powered smartphone, a new version of our CaskFinder app was released today. So this seemed like a good time to tell you what has changed and how we have worked to address some of the valuable feedback we have received from our app users since the last release.
...Educating Rita?
There is a scene in the film ‘Educating Rita’ which I’ve always remembered. Rita is asked to write an essay about how best to stage a production of Ibsen’s ‘Peer Gynt’. Her essay consists of five words: “Do it on the radio”. Always makes me laugh.
Every year I get contacted by university students who are about to embark on...
For mash get Smash
Do you remember the ‘Smash’ adverts from the 1970’s? The ones where a group of Martians would watch in astonishment as humans prepared mashed potato the traditional way, using real potatos , and then roll around laughing in mirth? It always made me giggle (it still does), and the adverts were voted number one in ‘ITV’s Best Ever Ads’.
I’ve...