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Tribute Seven Star Standard Competition
ornwall’s largest independent beer brand, Tribute, has launched a competition designed...
£4 million investment at Butcombe
utcombe Brewery has announced a new £4 million investment into the brewery....
SIBA offers free tickets to BeerX 2018
S IBA has today announced that all Full Brewing Members will receive a complimentary two-day delegate ticket for BeerX...
Marston’s becomes official drinks supplier to Brakspear
arston’s Beer Company has signed a deal with pub operator Brakspear, which sees the...
Robinsons wins 20 awards
017 has been a successful year for independent family brewers, Robinsons Brewery,...
New social media campaign for London Pride
uller's, the London brewer and premium pub company, has rebranded its most famous...
News
Everards Announcement
Everards Brewery MD, Stephen Gould, has confirmed some key points about the brewery move this summer in this following announcement: Castle Acres Shopping Park In February 2017 Everards, Next Plc and The Crown Estate (with Ginko Tree Investment Ltd – The Crown’s...
Tiny Rebel Invests in New Brewery
Tiny Rebel Brewery is set to unveil its £2.6m facility in Newport. The 30,000 square foot site started production a few months ago and will welcome visitors to enjoy the new bar and tours and to glimpse behind the scenes of this award-winning Welsh phenomenon. The...
BBPA Awards Launched
The BBPA and Pub & Bar magazine have launched the BBPA Annual Dinner and Awards for 2017, continuing a partnership that is now in its third year. Prospective entrants have until Friday 25th August to submit their bids for victory in one of four categories. The...
Robinsons host ‘Beer Club Live’
Robinsons Brewery have once again partnered with ‘There’s A Beer For That’ to bring their second ever ‘Beer Club Live’ event to the award-winning Visitors Centre in Stockport on Tuesday 27th June from 7pm. This year’s event follows on from the success of 2016’s Beer...
Five Go Through to IPA Challenge Final
Yorkshire takes on London and the south-west in the finals of The IPA Challenge, run in partnership with SIBA, M&B, There’s A Beer For That, and Fuller’s. Five finalists emerged from a tough first round held at Fuller’s Centre of Excellence, with Roosters and...
Coffer Peach Business Tracker, May 2017 trading figures
Britain’s managed pub and restaurant market experienced a dip in trading in May, with operators recording collective like-for-like sales down 0.4% compared to the same month last year, latest figures from the Coffer Peach Business Tracker show. Groups trading in...
Ale Trail
New look for Hogs Back’s TEA
New look for Hogs Back's TEA, Hogs Back Brewery is launching a new design for its flagship TEA - or Traditional English Ale - with the aim of updating the brand while retaining the heritage which has made it one of the leading regional ales in the South East. The new...
SIBA’s BeerX moves to Liverpool
SIBA's BeerX moves to Liverpool after five hugely successful years in Sheffield, the UK’s biggest independent craft brewing trade show “SIBA's BeerX UK”, will move to Liverpool in March 2018. The event, which last year recorded its biggest attendance ever, has been...
Manchester Top for Cask?
Manchester has emerged as the cask beer capital of Britain, following a major new study into the beer sold in the city’s pubs and bars. The Manchester Beer Audit 2017 found 411 different cask ales on sale in venues throughout the Manchester City Council area, beating...
Everards Announcement
Everards Brewery MD, Stephen Gould, has confirmed some key points about the brewery move this summer in this following announcement: Castle Acres Shopping Park In February 2017 Everards, Next Plc and The Crown Estate (with Ginko Tree Investment Ltd – The Crown’s...
Tiny Rebel Invests in New Brewery
Tiny Rebel Brewery is set to unveil its £2.6m facility in Newport. The 30,000 square foot site started production a few months ago and will welcome visitors to enjoy the new bar and tours and to glimpse behind the scenes of this award-winning Welsh phenomenon. The...
BBPA Awards Launched
The BBPA and Pub & Bar magazine have launched the BBPA Annual Dinner and Awards for 2017, continuing a partnership that is now in its third year. Prospective entrants have until Friday 25th August to submit their bids for victory in one of four categories. The...
Cask Ale
Champion Beer of Scotland 2017
Loch Lomond has scooped CAMRA's prestigious Champion Beer of Scotland 2017 award at the opening day of the Scottish Real Ale Festival, taking place today in Edinburgh. A multi-time CAMRA and SIBA award-winning beer, Loch Lomond’s Silkie Stout (5% ABV) is named after...
Strong support from trade for Norwich ‘City of Ale’
Strong support from trade for Norwich 'City of Ale'. In 2011, Norwich staged an event that was the first of its kind - and in doing so, laid claim to the title ‘City of Ale’. It was a ten-day celebration of beer that took place in dozens of pubs across an entire city....
Carlsberg buys London Fields Brewery
Carlsberg buys London Fields Brewery, Carlsberg UK has acquired London Fields Brewery and will operate the business in a joint venture with Brooklyn Brewery from Brooklyn, New York. London Fields Brewery, which was founded in 2011 in the vibrant London Fields...
Greene King Annual Results
Greene King has released their annual results: Pub Company like-for-like (LFL) sales up 1.5%, ahead of the market, driven by a good Christmas, a stronger fourth quarter and a strong performance from Greene King Locals. Record performance from Pub Partners; LFL net...
Beer Day Britain Round Up Plus New Research Revealed
Beer Day Britain 2017 has been heralded a resounding success with more people than ever getting behind the celebrations. The event, instigated by Beer Sommelier and writer Jane Peyton and developed into a four-day celebration this year in conjunction with ‘There’s A...
Dea Latis Announces ‘Best of the West’ Dinner
Dea Latis, the group with a mission to bring beer to women is hosting an event in Clifton, called 'Best of the West' on 20 July. Guests will discover the delights of beer and food matching at this five-course dinner hosted in partnership with St Austell Brewery. Held...
Beer and Food
CAMRA Slams Big Beer
he choice for beer drinkers has never been better as the number of UK breweries soars to over 1,700 - CAMRA warns storm clouds are gathering as global brewers attempt to stifle that choice, according to the CAMRA's Good Beer Guide...
CAMRA names its top 16 pubs
s it releases the 45th edition of its Good Beer Guide, CAMRA has named the top 16 pubs in the country as part of its nationwide search for the National Pub of the Year. The top 16 contenders include a huge range of pubs from...
SIBA Beerflex Breweries All FSQ Enrolled
IBA has announced today that all SIBA brewing members trading on SIBA Beerflex* now hold a valid SIBA FSQ certificate or other professional accreditation commissioned themselves such as SALSA, NSF, STS or BRC....
BBPA’s warning to Chancellor on Beer Taxes
he BBPA has issued a warning that today's rocketing inflation rate should not be used to ratchet up beer taxes in the autumn Budget, as currently planned. If the Chancellor sticks to an inflation-based increase already pencilled in, the benefits of the Government’s...
Nicholson’s Beer Showcase 2017
icholson’s pubs are launching their National Beer Showcase 2017 across 77 pubs from the 11th September to 22nd October. Running for six weeks, the celebration of beer and Britain’s best breweries will feature 28 new beers....
Star Doubles Cask Marque Approved Pubs
fifth of Star’s pubs are now Cask Marque accredited with a further 5% expected to be approved by the end of the year. The number of Cask Marque accreditations is double what it was at the start of 2017 boosted by take-up of Star’s new...
Insight
UK’s best IPA is Transmission
Transmission by North Brewing Co in Leeds has been named the UK’s best IPA at Imbibe Live, the third year in a row a SIBA member has won at the show. With 40 IPAs in The IPA Challenge overall, five frontrunners made it to the final tasting at the Imbibe Live trade...
Champion Beer of Scotland 2017
Loch Lomond has scooped CAMRA's prestigious Champion Beer of Scotland 2017 award at the opening day of the Scottish Real Ale Festival, taking place today in Edinburgh. A multi-time CAMRA and SIBA award-winning beer, Loch Lomond’s Silkie Stout (5% ABV) is named after...
Strong support from trade for Norwich ‘City of Ale’
Strong support from trade for Norwich 'City of Ale'. In 2011, Norwich staged an event that was the first of its kind - and in doing so, laid claim to the title ‘City of Ale’. It was a ten-day celebration of beer that took place in dozens of pubs across an entire city....
Carlsberg buys London Fields Brewery
Carlsberg buys London Fields Brewery, Carlsberg UK has acquired London Fields Brewery and will operate the business in a joint venture with Brooklyn Brewery from Brooklyn, New York. London Fields Brewery, which was founded in 2011 in the vibrant London Fields...
Greene King Annual Results
Greene King has released their annual results: Pub Company like-for-like (LFL) sales up 1.5%, ahead of the market, driven by a good Christmas, a stronger fourth quarter and a strong performance from Greene King Locals. Record performance from Pub Partners; LFL net...
Beer Day Britain Round Up Plus New Research Revealed
Beer Day Britain 2017 has been heralded a resounding success with more people than ever getting behind the celebrations. The event, instigated by Beer Sommelier and writer Jane Peyton and developed into a four-day celebration this year in conjunction with ‘There’s A...
Cask Reports
SIBA’s BeerX moves to Liverpool
SIBA's BeerX moves to Liverpool after five hugely successful years in Sheffield, the UK’s biggest independent craft brewing trade show “SIBA's BeerX UK”, will move to Liverpool in March 2018. The event, which last year recorded its biggest attendance ever, has been...
Manchester Top for Cask?
Manchester has emerged as the cask beer capital of Britain, following a major new study into the beer sold in the city’s pubs and bars. The Manchester Beer Audit 2017 found 411 different cask ales on sale in venues throughout the Manchester City Council area, beating...
Everards Announcement
Everards Brewery MD, Stephen Gould, has confirmed some key points about the brewery move this summer in this following announcement: Castle Acres Shopping Park In February 2017 Everards, Next Plc and The Crown Estate (with Ginko Tree Investment Ltd – The Crown’s...
Tiny Rebel Invests in New Brewery
Tiny Rebel Brewery is set to unveil its £2.6m facility in Newport. The 30,000 square foot site started production a few months ago and will welcome visitors to enjoy the new bar and tours and to glimpse behind the scenes of this award-winning Welsh phenomenon. The...
BBPA Awards Launched
The BBPA and Pub & Bar magazine have launched the BBPA Annual Dinner and Awards for 2017, continuing a partnership that is now in its third year. Prospective entrants have until Friday 25th August to submit their bids for victory in one of four categories. The...
Robinsons host ‘Beer Club Live’
Robinsons Brewery have once again partnered with ‘There’s A Beer For That’ to bring their second ever ‘Beer Club Live’ event to the award-winning Visitors Centre in Stockport on Tuesday 27th June from 7pm. This year’s event follows on from the success of 2016’s Beer...