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New Chair of Parliamentary Beer Group Elected
New Chair of Parliamentary Beer Group Elected, Mike Wood MP has been elected Chairman at the Inaugural Meeting of the...
Brewer of the Year named by Parliamentary Beer Group
Brewer of the Year named by Parliamentary Beer Group, Purity Brewing Company’s director of brewing Flo Vialan has been...
SIBA Calls for Clarity around Craft Brewing
SIBA calls for clarity around craft brewing, SIBA has today highlighted the need for greater clarity for beer...
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...
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...
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 -...
News
BBPA responds to Article 50 Trigger Date
The BBPA’s Chief Executive, Brigid Simmonds, has commented on the Prime Minister's declaration that Article 50 will be triggered on March 29th, setting in motion the process for Britain to leave the European Union: “The Prime Minister has voiced support for...
UK has most craft breweries per head
The craft beer revolution is taking hold in more countries across the globe. Consumer demand and a growing passion for craft brewing mean you can now get an IPA in India or Iceland, a Saison from Belgium or Brazil, and an APA from the U.S. or Ukraine. According to a...
Williams Brothers wins SIBA’s Supreme Cask Gold Award
The SIBA National Independent Beer Awards, the biggest of their kind ever seen in the UK with hundreds of cask, keg, bottled and canned beers judged across 5 days, have been announced at SIBA’s BeerX event in Sheffield. Williams Brothers in Scotland took home the much...
Fourpure is SIBA’s Brewery of the Year
London-based Fourpure have been named the UK’s Brewery of the Year 2017 by SIBA in their annual Business Awards 2017. The awards, which took place at SIBA’s BeerX event in Sheffield, seek to congratulate the top brewery businesses in the UK across a variety of...
Mitchells & Butlers announces transatlantic brewing collaboration
Mitchells & Butlers is excited to announce a new transatlantic brewing collaboration with Rudgate Brewery and Hogshead Brewery. The partnership will see Hogshead Etta’s Ale from Denver, Colorado brewed at Rudgate Brewery, York and exclusively served in a number of...
Small breweries benefit from resurgence in local authentic heritage products
The UK is seeing a resurgence of small businesses producing authentic, heritage products according to “Buying British in 2017”, a report from GS1 UK, the supply chain standards member organisation with a community of over 31,000 UK businesses. New GS1 UK membership...
Ale Trail
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...
BBPA responds to Article 50 Trigger Date
The BBPA’s Chief Executive, Brigid Simmonds, has commented on the Prime Minister's declaration that Article 50 will be triggered on March 29th, setting in motion the process for Britain to leave the European Union: “The Prime Minister has voiced support for...
UK has most craft breweries per head
The craft beer revolution is taking hold in more countries across the globe. Consumer demand and a growing passion for craft brewing mean you can now get an IPA in India or Iceland, a Saison from Belgium or Brazil, and an APA from the U.S. or Ukraine. According to a...
Williams Brothers wins SIBA’s Supreme Cask Gold Award
The SIBA National Independent Beer Awards, the biggest of their kind ever seen in the UK with hundreds of cask, keg, bottled and canned beers judged across 5 days, have been announced at SIBA’s BeerX event in Sheffield. Williams Brothers in Scotland took home the much...
Cask Ale
Independent Brewers & Educators support Government’s development of new brewing apprenticeship standard
SIBA and the Institute of Brewing & Distilling (IBD) have pledged support for the Government’s intention to develop a new brewing apprenticeship standard in a joint press release issued today. Both organisations are encouraging their members to submit their...
CAMRA to accept “craft beer”?
This week more than a thousand CAMRA members will descend on Bournemouth to discuss the organisation’s future direction and policy at its annual Members’ Weekend, AGM and Conference. CAMRA members will consider proposals to widen its interests and scope of influence...
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...
Beer and Food
There’s A Beer For That releases essential Beer Day Britain digital toolkit to support trade drive
As Beer Day Britain draws closer, There’s A Beer For That has devised further support to enable licensees to get involved and use the four-day celebration of the nation’s favourite alcoholic drink to drive trade. There’s A Beer For That, the campaign to reignite...
Fuller’s Financial Results
Financial Highlights Adjusted profit before tax1 up 5% to £42.9 million (2016: £40.9 million) Adjusted earnings per share2 up 5% to 61.39p (2016: 58.35p) Revenue up 12% to £392.0 million (2016: £350.5 million) EBITDA3 up 8% to £70.5 million (2016: £65.0 million) Total...
Skipper ale available exclusively in M & B Castle pubs
St Austell Brewery has launched a new limited edition American Pale Ale in Mitchell & Butlers’ (M&B) Castle pubs. Skipper (4.9% ABV), which has been brewed in collaboration with Boston-based Harpoon Brewery, is now available exclusively in more than 100 Castle...
St Austell unveils biggest ever marketing campaign for Tribute
Cornwall’s largest independent beer brand, Tribute, is this week unveiling its biggest ever integrated marketing campaign. The investment by St Austell Brewery leads with advertising across the industry trade media. Designed to bring to life Tribute’s strong...
Dea Latis event at Marston’s
Dea Latis is running a fun and informative beer and food tasting evening for beer-loving and beer-curious women at Marston’s Brewery Visitor’s Centre, DE14, on Thursday 15th June from 6.30pm. Held on 15th June to mark the national celebrations for Beer Day...
BII and Butcombe team up
The BII is excited to announce a new partnership with Butcombe Brewing Company, with all tenants and lessees now able to benefit from BII membership. Butcombe Brewing and parent company Liberation Brewing have teamed up with the BII to offer annual membership to all...
Insight
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...
Independent Brewers & Educators support Government’s development of new brewing apprenticeship standard
SIBA and the Institute of Brewing & Distilling (IBD) have pledged support for the Government’s intention to develop a new brewing apprenticeship standard in a joint press release issued today. Both organisations are encouraging their members to submit their...
CAMRA to accept “craft beer”?
This week more than a thousand CAMRA members will descend on Bournemouth to discuss the organisation’s future direction and policy at its annual Members’ Weekend, AGM and Conference. CAMRA members will consider proposals to widen its interests and scope of influence...
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...
Cask Reports
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...
BBPA responds to Article 50 Trigger Date
The BBPA’s Chief Executive, Brigid Simmonds, has commented on the Prime Minister's declaration that Article 50 will be triggered on March 29th, setting in motion the process for Britain to leave the European Union: “The Prime Minister has voiced support for...
UK has most craft breweries per head
The craft beer revolution is taking hold in more countries across the globe. Consumer demand and a growing passion for craft brewing mean you can now get an IPA in India or Iceland, a Saison from Belgium or Brazil, and an APA from the U.S. or Ukraine. According to a...
Williams Brothers wins SIBA’s Supreme Cask Gold Award
The SIBA National Independent Beer Awards, the biggest of their kind ever seen in the UK with hundreds of cask, keg, bottled and canned beers judged across 5 days, have been announced at SIBA’s BeerX event in Sheffield. Williams Brothers in Scotland took home the much...
Fourpure is SIBA’s Brewery of the Year
London-based Fourpure have been named the UK’s Brewery of the Year 2017 by SIBA in their annual Business Awards 2017. The awards, which took place at SIBA’s BeerX event in Sheffield, seek to congratulate the top brewery businesses in the UK across a variety of...