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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...
Cask Champion receives Lifetime achievement award from Parliamentarians
Cask Champion receives Lifetime achievement award from Parliamentarians. Cask Marque's own Paul Nunny has been...
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...
Greene King partners with Gloucester Rugby
Greene King partners with Gloucester Rugby on a deal that will see the UK brewer and pub retailer become the new...
Fuller’s invests in new robots for cask racking line
Fuller’s invests in new robots for cask racking line, the two new robots have been installed at its brewery in...
Thornbridge plans new cask brew house
Thornbridge plans new cask brew house. Thornbridge brewery is continuing to pursue further investment in expansion as...
News
Star Pubs join SIBA’s Beerflex
Heineken-owned Star Pubs & Bars is to join SIBA’s Beerflex scheme offering licensees a wider choice of local cask ales. Under the agreement, Star licensees with Cask Marque accredited pubs will be able to order local cask ales brewed by Beerflex participants...
SIBA BeerX sees record attendance
SIBA has today announced that its BeerX 2017 event, which took place 16th-17th March at iceSheffield in Sheffield, recorded its biggest attendance since the event was launched in 2013. BeerX, SIBA's flagship event, hosts both SIBA's Trade Show, which consists of the...
Adnams Results
Adnams, the Suffolk brewer, distiller and retailer, has published its Report & Accounts for the 12 months to 31 December 2016, showing sales of £70.3m and a £3.9m operating profit. 2016 was a record brewing year for Adnams with volumes passing the 100,000 barrels...
Craft Beer and Ale is Number One Choice for Women
British attitudes towards pubs in 2017 have evolved to encompass current social trends whilst retaining classic British traditions, including the discovery that craft beer & ale is now the top tipple of choice amongst British women. When given the choice between...
Manchester Beer Week 2017
Manchester’s only city-wide beer festival returns this summer, providing an unrivalled celebration of the nation’s favourite drink across 10 event-filled days. Now entering its second year, Manchester Beer Week runs from Friday, June 23 to Sunday, July 2, and has...
BBPA’s response to low strength consultation
Commenting on the opening of a new consultation today, seeking views on “options to amend the structure of the alcohol duty system so that duty rates better correspond to alcoholic strength”, BBPA Chief Executive Brigid Simmonds, said: “We will be responding, as we’ve...
Ale Trail
Beer Day Britain 2017
Beer Day Britain 2017 has been launched with plans to celebrate the nations favourite alcoholic drink across a four-day festival in June. The festival will start with a ‘cheers to beer’ toast across the country at 7pm on Thursday 15th June and run through to include...
Honey Bee Beer to help Bees
A Friends of the Earth campaign to help Britain's under-threat bees is being given a boost by a honey beer created by Henley-based brewer and pub operator Brakspear. Honey Bee, a 4.4% ABV honey beer, will be available in selected Brakspear pubs in Henley from 1 April...
S.A. Brain and Co Ltd announce profit and turnover growth
S.A. Brain & Co Ltd today announced operating profit increased by 23% to £5.5m, as turnover grew by 7% to £135m, for its financial year ending 1st October 2016. Sales increases were largely the consequence of continued growth of the group’s award-winning Coffee#1...
Star Pubs join SIBA’s Beerflex
Heineken-owned Star Pubs & Bars is to join SIBA’s Beerflex scheme offering licensees a wider choice of local cask ales. Under the agreement, Star licensees with Cask Marque accredited pubs will be able to order local cask ales brewed by Beerflex participants...
SIBA BeerX sees record attendance
SIBA has today announced that its BeerX 2017 event, which took place 16th-17th March at iceSheffield in Sheffield, recorded its biggest attendance since the event was launched in 2013. BeerX, SIBA's flagship event, hosts both SIBA's Trade Show, which consists of the...
Adnams Results
Adnams, the Suffolk brewer, distiller and retailer, has published its Report & Accounts for the 12 months to 31 December 2016, showing sales of £70.3m and a £3.9m operating profit. 2016 was a record brewing year for Adnams with volumes passing the 100,000 barrels...
Cask Ale
ALMR begins annual search for best in licensed hospitality
Nominations are now being accepted for the 2017 ALMR Operations Managers Awards, the annual search to identify the best and brightestleaders in pubs, restaurants and bars. The ALMR Operations Managers Awards identifies and celebrates outstanding individuals running...
London Craft Beer Festival
This August, London Craft Beer Festival will mark its 5th Birthday with a bigger, bolder celebration of modern beer, taking over the unique, Shoreditch Electric Light Station for the very first time. Founders Dan Sylvester and Greg Wells will bring together the best...
Brakspear Pub Trails launched
Henley brewer and pub operator Brakspear is encouraging pubgoers to work up a thirst for their beer with the launch of a series of pub trails, starting and ending at one of 10 Brakspear pubs. The Brakspear Pub Trails have been created in partnership with the Trust for...
New Partnerships for There’s A Beer For That
There’s A Beer For That has announced two major partnerships and details of its extensive marketing programme that challenges consumer perceptions around the quality, diversity & versatility of beer and encourage behaviour change to drive beer category growth. The...
BII announces semi-finalists for Licensee of the Year
The British Institute of Innkeeping (BII) - the leading professional body representing the UK’s licensees - is delighted to announce the sixteen semi-finalists for this year’s Licensee of the Year competition have been selected. Sponsored by Sky, the Licensee of the...
Lost profit to pub industry from beer quality issues tops £700m
At a time when operating costs are set to escalate significantly in the coming years, pubs are missing out on an average of over £14,600 per year in profit through inadequate beer quality management, in-depth new research has revealed. The findings, published in the...
Beer and Food
Champion Beer of Britain Awards to be Revealed during GBBF Trade Session
The announcement of the Champion Beer of Britain, one of the most prestigious real ale competitions in the world, will be an exclusive highlight of the trade session taking place at the Great British Beer Festival on Tuesday 8th August at Olympia London. Those...
Winner of BII’s Licensee of the Year announced
The industry’s toughest competition came to a dramatic close yesterday, with licensee Mark Higgs beating the five other finalists to the top spot and winning LOYA 2017- this year sponsored by Sky. Mark, a tenant of Hook Norton, runs the Castle at Edgehill near Banbury...
Purity wins hat trick of awards
Purity Brewing Company is celebrating another award hat-trick after picking up three honours at two different regional ceremonies. The eco-friendly brewery picked up winner’s gongs for both Small Business and Fast Growth Business of the Year at the West Midlands...
Number of new breweries has peaked
Extensive research undertaken for the 2017 edition of The Brewery Manual has found that the number of UK craft brewers has stabilised after years of growth. Researchers endeavoured to contact and interview virtually each and every brewer in the United Kingdom to...
Carlsberg to achieve zero carbon emissions at its breweries by 2030
The Carlsberg Group has committed to eliminating carbon emissions and halving water usage at its breweries by 2030 as part of its new sustainability programme – Together Towards ZERO. An intermediate step includes the exclusive use of renewable electricity at its...
Brewers in the Community
A new report, released today (13th June) by SIBA, highlights the important role independent craft brewers are now playing in communities across Britain - creating jobs for local people, opening brewery tap rooms to help fill the void left by unfortunate community pub...
Insight
International Brewing & Cider Awards 2017
Brewers and cider makers from across the world gathered at London's Guildhall on 26 April for the unveiling of the Championship winners in the International Brewing & Cider Awards 2017. Trophies were awarded to nine brewers and one cider maker from three...
ALMR begins annual search for best in licensed hospitality
Nominations are now being accepted for the 2017 ALMR Operations Managers Awards, the annual search to identify the best and brightestleaders in pubs, restaurants and bars. The ALMR Operations Managers Awards identifies and celebrates outstanding individuals running...
London Craft Beer Festival
This August, London Craft Beer Festival will mark its 5th Birthday with a bigger, bolder celebration of modern beer, taking over the unique, Shoreditch Electric Light Station for the very first time. Founders Dan Sylvester and Greg Wells will bring together the best...
Brakspear Pub Trails launched
Henley brewer and pub operator Brakspear is encouraging pubgoers to work up a thirst for their beer with the launch of a series of pub trails, starting and ending at one of 10 Brakspear pubs. The Brakspear Pub Trails have been created in partnership with the Trust for...
New Partnerships for There’s A Beer For That
There’s A Beer For That has announced two major partnerships and details of its extensive marketing programme that challenges consumer perceptions around the quality, diversity & versatility of beer and encourage behaviour change to drive beer category growth. The...
BII announces semi-finalists for Licensee of the Year
The British Institute of Innkeeping (BII) - the leading professional body representing the UK’s licensees - is delighted to announce the sixteen semi-finalists for this year’s Licensee of the Year competition have been selected. Sponsored by Sky, the Licensee of the...
Cask Reports
Honey Bee Beer to help Bees
A Friends of the Earth campaign to help Britain's under-threat bees is being given a boost by a honey beer created by Henley-based brewer and pub operator Brakspear. Honey Bee, a 4.4% ABV honey beer, will be available in selected Brakspear pubs in Henley from 1 April...
S.A. Brain and Co Ltd announce profit and turnover growth
S.A. Brain & Co Ltd today announced operating profit increased by 23% to £5.5m, as turnover grew by 7% to £135m, for its financial year ending 1st October 2016. Sales increases were largely the consequence of continued growth of the group’s award-winning Coffee#1...
Star Pubs join SIBA’s Beerflex
Heineken-owned Star Pubs & Bars is to join SIBA’s Beerflex scheme offering licensees a wider choice of local cask ales. Under the agreement, Star licensees with Cask Marque accredited pubs will be able to order local cask ales brewed by Beerflex participants...
SIBA BeerX sees record attendance
SIBA has today announced that its BeerX 2017 event, which took place 16th-17th March at iceSheffield in Sheffield, recorded its biggest attendance since the event was launched in 2013. BeerX, SIBA's flagship event, hosts both SIBA's Trade Show, which consists of the...
Adnams Results
Adnams, the Suffolk brewer, distiller and retailer, has published its Report & Accounts for the 12 months to 31 December 2016, showing sales of £70.3m and a £3.9m operating profit. 2016 was a record brewing year for Adnams with volumes passing the 100,000 barrels...
Craft Beer and Ale is Number One Choice for Women
British attitudes towards pubs in 2017 have evolved to encompass current social trends whilst retaining classic British traditions, including the discovery that craft beer & ale is now the top tipple of choice amongst British women. When given the choice between...