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John Keeling named as first Chairman of London Brewers’ Alliance
t a recent meeting of the London Brewers’ Alliance (LBA), a vote was held in favour of...
New BBPA Chairman is Simon Emeny
imon Emeny, Chief Executive of Fuller Smith & Turner plc, has become BBPA Chairman...
St Austell Challenge to Students
hird year Sustainable Product Design students at Falmouth University have been...
Woodfordes ‘Free Beer for a Year’
ive lucky freetrade pubs will each win ‘Free Beer for a Year’ from Norfolk-based...
Wise Men back to raise money for Prostate Cancer UK
uller, Smith & Turner, the London brewer and premium pub company, is bringing back...
CAMRA names the best four clubs in the country
AMRA has named the best four clubs in the country as part of its Club of the Year 2018...
News
Cask Ale Week 2017 Updates
Cask Ale Week 2017 Updates Cask Ale Week 2017 is fast approaching and will be running 21st September to the 1st October. To celebrate cask ale and promote it to more consumers there will be beer festivals, tastings, brewery open days, promotions and competitions. Here...
Brewers’ Research and Education Fund approve £82K of new funding
Brewers’ Research and Education Fund approve £82K of new funding. The Court meeting of the Worshipful Company of Brewers has approved this year’s distribution from the Brewers’ Research and Education Fund (BREF). The BBPA provides the secretariat for the fund, which...
Hogs Back looking forward to its hop harvest
Hogs Back are looking forward to its hop harvest, the brewery is on track for a bumper crop of hops as it enters the all-important final weeks before the 2017 harvest. The Surrey-based brewer is hoping to exceed the 1,100kg of hops that it harvested in 2016 from the...
Cask Ale Week 2017
Cask Ale Week 2017 is fast approaching and will be running 21st September to the 1st October. To celebrate cask ale and promote it to more consumers there will be beer festivals, tastings, brewery open days, promotions and competitions. Here are details of some of the...
Cask Champion receives Lifetime achievement award from Parliamentarians
Cask Champion receives Lifetime achievement award from Parliamentarians. Cask Marque's own Paul Nunny has been honoured by Parliament for his contribution to the beer industry. Paul was presented with the Lifetime Achievement Award by the All Party Parliamentary Beer...
SIBA’s Assured Independent British Craft Brewer Initiative to feature at GBBF
SIBA's Assured Independent British Craft Brewer Initiative to feature at GBBF. SIBA has announced it will be partnering with CAMRA for this year’s Great British Beer Festival (GBBF) at Olympia London, as part of their continued support for British beer. SIBA’s...
Ale Trail
CAMRA Urges Tax Break for Pubs
CAMRA urges tax break for pubs by calling on the Government to stop viable community pubs from being driven out of business by introducing a £5,000 annual reduction on their rocketing business rates. Reviews of business rates across England are seeing many pubs hit...
Majority of British Adults Say Beer Duty is Too High
CAMRA is urging the Government to turn back the clock and freeze beer duty once again, as new research confirms that the majority of British adults say beer duty is too high. Research carried out by YouGov[1] has found that 55% of people who expressed an opinion...
Cyclops Moves to Cask Marque
After a successful 10 years of establishing itself as the industry’s preferred tasting note system, Cyclops moves to Cask Marque. David Bremner, Director of Marketing for Robinsons Brewery and one of the founders of Cyclops, explains: “We originally developed Cyclops...
Cask Ale Week 2017 Updates
Cask Ale Week 2017 Updates Cask Ale Week 2017 is fast approaching and will be running 21st September to the 1st October. To celebrate cask ale and promote it to more consumers there will be beer festivals, tastings, brewery open days, promotions and competitions. Here...
Brewers’ Research and Education Fund approve £82K of new funding
Brewers’ Research and Education Fund approve £82K of new funding. The Court meeting of the Worshipful Company of Brewers has approved this year’s distribution from the Brewers’ Research and Education Fund (BREF). The BBPA provides the secretariat for the fund, which...
Hogs Back looking forward to its hop harvest
Hogs Back are looking forward to its hop harvest, the brewery is on track for a bumper crop of hops as it enters the all-important final weeks before the 2017 harvest. The Surrey-based brewer is hoping to exceed the 1,100kg of hops that it harvested in 2016 from the...
Cask Ale
Guild of Beer Writers’ Annual Awards
Writers, journalists, bloggers, broadcasters, photographers and others who communicate about beer and pubs are urged to enter the Guild of Beer Writers' Annual Awards, which close in three weeks, on 8 September. This year's awards come with a total prize fund of...
Brakspear Reports Good 2016 Results
J T Davies & Sons, the parent company for Henley-based pub operator and brewer Brakspear reports good 2016 results, increasing its turnover during the year ending 31 December 2016 by 14%, to £25.5 million and EBITDA increased 1% to £8.3m. Profit before tax was up...
Hogs Back Turns Back the Clock
Surrey-based Hogs Back Brewery is celebrating its 25th birthday this month by turning back the clocks and offering its flagship Traditional English Ale (TEA) at 1992 prices in a handful of pubs close to the brewery in Farnham. On Thursday 24 August, around 10 local...
British Hop Association Relaunches Website
The British Hop Association is delighted to announce the relaunch of its website – www.britishhops.org.uk – with a fresh new look and some interesting insights from industry professionals. Since its initial launch in 2012, the British Hop Association website has...
Great British Beer Festival Winter Announced
CAMRA has announced that it will launch the very first Great British Beer Festival Winter in 2018 and that this will replace its National Winter Ales Festival. The Winter festival will run from the 20th-24th of February in the medieval friary halls in the heart of...
Visit Britain and England Supporting Pubs
Visit Britain and England supporting pubs by placing links to Stay in a Pub, the website which promotes British pubs to inbound tourists. This action was taken after their research was quoted back to them by Stay in a Pub. This research stated that one of the top...
Beer and Food
New social media campaign for London Pride
uller's, the London brewer and premium pub company, has rebranded its most famous beer, London Pride. To help support the new-look London Pride, Fuller’s has launched a social media campaign, Confessions, and a country-wide...
New export strategy for British beer
new strategy to drive exports of the British beer, the UK’s third biggest food and drink export, by £100m over the next five years was launched today by the BBPA. The new export strategy launched at Fuller’s Griffin Brewery in...
Eight leading industry bodies call for decisive action from Chancellor
ight leading bodies representing the entire supply chain in Britain’s beer and pub industry have written to the Chancellor calling for decisive action to ease the burden of both Beer Duty and business rates in the Budget on...
BBPA Annual Dinner and Awards
wards for Black Sheep, Craft Union, the Co-op and Heineken UK, alongside a hugely popular Chairman’s Award for Steve Goodyear, were last night presented at the BBPA Annual Dinner at the Royal Garden Hotel in London. The winners...
Greene King raises £100k
reene King, the UK’s leading pub retailer and brewer, has raised £100k for Global’s Make Some Noise charity. As part of its partnership with national broadcaster Radio X, Greene King released a limited edition ale for the...
BBPA’s #cutbeertax social media assets go live
he BBPA has launched an infographics campaign #cutbeertax via social media, to engage industry staff, customers, and the wider public to support a cut in beer duty in the Budget on 22nd November. The BBPA is urging everyone to get...
Insight
Pride & Passion Open Day
On Saturday 2 September 2017, Fuller’s will once again be opening its doors to the public for another popular Pride & Passion Open Day. The free entry event will take place between 11am and 4pm at the famous brewery on the river at Chiswick in West...
Guild of Beer Writers’ Annual Awards
Writers, journalists, bloggers, broadcasters, photographers and others who communicate about beer and pubs are urged to enter the Guild of Beer Writers' Annual Awards, which close in three weeks, on 8 September. This year's awards come with a total prize fund of...
Brakspear Reports Good 2016 Results
J T Davies & Sons, the parent company for Henley-based pub operator and brewer Brakspear reports good 2016 results, increasing its turnover during the year ending 31 December 2016 by 14%, to £25.5 million and EBITDA increased 1% to £8.3m. Profit before tax was up...
Hogs Back Turns Back the Clock
Surrey-based Hogs Back Brewery is celebrating its 25th birthday this month by turning back the clocks and offering its flagship Traditional English Ale (TEA) at 1992 prices in a handful of pubs close to the brewery in Farnham. On Thursday 24 August, around 10 local...
British Hop Association Relaunches Website
The British Hop Association is delighted to announce the relaunch of its website – www.britishhops.org.uk – with a fresh new look and some interesting insights from industry professionals. Since its initial launch in 2012, the British Hop Association website has...
Great British Beer Festival Winter Announced
CAMRA has announced that it will launch the very first Great British Beer Festival Winter in 2018 and that this will replace its National Winter Ales Festival. The Winter festival will run from the 20th-24th of February in the medieval friary halls in the heart of...
Cask Reports
Majority of British Adults Say Beer Duty is Too High
CAMRA is urging the Government to turn back the clock and freeze beer duty once again, as new research confirms that the majority of British adults say beer duty is too high. Research carried out by YouGov[1] has found that 55% of people who expressed an opinion...
Cyclops Moves to Cask Marque
After a successful 10 years of establishing itself as the industry’s preferred tasting note system, Cyclops moves to Cask Marque. David Bremner, Director of Marketing for Robinsons Brewery and one of the founders of Cyclops, explains: “We originally developed Cyclops...
Cask Ale Week 2017 Updates
Cask Ale Week 2017 Updates Cask Ale Week 2017 is fast approaching and will be running 21st September to the 1st October. To celebrate cask ale and promote it to more consumers there will be beer festivals, tastings, brewery open days, promotions and competitions. Here...
Brewers’ Research and Education Fund approve £82K of new funding
Brewers’ Research and Education Fund approve £82K of new funding. The Court meeting of the Worshipful Company of Brewers has approved this year’s distribution from the Brewers’ Research and Education Fund (BREF). The BBPA provides the secretariat for the fund, which...
Hogs Back looking forward to its hop harvest
Hogs Back are looking forward to its hop harvest, the brewery is on track for a bumper crop of hops as it enters the all-important final weeks before the 2017 harvest. The Surrey-based brewer is hoping to exceed the 1,100kg of hops that it harvested in 2016 from the...
Cask Ale Week 2017
Cask Ale Week 2017 is fast approaching and will be running 21st September to the 1st October. To celebrate cask ale and promote it to more consumers there will be beer festivals, tastings, brewery open days, promotions and competitions. Here are details of some of the...