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Fuller’s Financial Results
Financial Highlights Adjusted profit before tax1 up 5% to £42.9 million (2016: £40.9 million) Adjusted earnings per...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Food Producers Work with Brewers to Create Unique Brews for Manchester Beer Week
Six of Manchester’s finest independent food and drinks producers are teaming up with breweries to create a series of...
News
CAMRA’s 2017 AGM
CAMRA's Members’ Weekend, AGM and Conference will bring more than a thousand CAMRA members from across the UK to Bournemouth from the 7-9th April. The main events will be hosted at the Bournemouth International Centre, where discussions on how to widen the campaign in...
Cheltenham Motor Club wins CAMRA’s Club of the Year
A Cheltenham club which caters to motor enthusiasts has won the prestigious CAMRA Club of the Year award for a second time. The Cheltenham Motor Club first secured the coveted title in 2013. Since then, the club has made significant improvements to its seating and bar...
Small Brewer Duty Reform Coalition to commission independent review
Companies representing more than 50 breweries around the UK have now signed up to the Small Brewer Duty Reform Coalition (SBDRC) launched on 18th January, with the aim of asking the Treasury to review and improve Small Breweries Relief to ensure it supports a...
Annabel Smith wins Educator of the Year
Annabel Smith has been named Educator of the Year at the Imbibe Personality of the Year Awards. In an unusual twist, the judges awarded the accolade to two nominees, the other being Myles Cunliffe of the Mixology Group. Smith is a veteran of the beer industry, having...
Fuller’s launches 2017 seasonals
Fuller, Smith & Turner, the London brewer and premium pub company, will be launching its new Seasonal Ale Calendar for 2017 on Tuesday 21 February. In spring, summer, autumn and winter there will be one main cask ale available, two more cask ales both available...
Collaborative ale from Greene King and Wimbledon Brewery
Suffolk-based brewer Greene King has partnered with London-based Wimbledon Brewery for the first time to brew a new cask beer. The beer is part of Greene King’s on-going collaboration with regional breweries, now approaching its fourth year, and is the brewer’s first...
Ale Trail
Beer sales down in 2016
Beer sales down in 2016: Beer sales down 1.0 per cent in 2016 (a decline of 78 million pints) Penny off a pint needed instead of the planned increase in Budget to protect jobs and investment, says BBPA Sales of British beer fell by one per cent in 2016, prompting...
CAMRA’s Champion Winter Beer of Britain 2017
A brewery owned by a Californian has scooped CAMRA's prestigious Champion Winter Beer of Britain award on the opening day of the National Winter Ales Festival, taking place in Norwich this year. Following over a year of local tasting panels and regional heats leading...
Buster Grant elected new SIBA Chairman
Buster Grant, owner and Head Brewer of Brecon Brewing in Wales, has been appointed the new Chairman of SIBA. Buster will take the chair for the first time at SIBA's AGM on 16th March at their annual BeerX event. The appointment comes as current Chairman Guy Sheppard,...
CAMRA’s 2017 AGM
CAMRA's Members’ Weekend, AGM and Conference will bring more than a thousand CAMRA members from across the UK to Bournemouth from the 7-9th April. The main events will be hosted at the Bournemouth International Centre, where discussions on how to widen the campaign in...
Cheltenham Motor Club wins CAMRA’s Club of the Year
A Cheltenham club which caters to motor enthusiasts has won the prestigious CAMRA Club of the Year award for a second time. The Cheltenham Motor Club first secured the coveted title in 2013. Since then, the club has made significant improvements to its seating and bar...
Small Brewer Duty Reform Coalition to commission independent review
Companies representing more than 50 breweries around the UK have now signed up to the Small Brewer Duty Reform Coalition (SBDRC) launched on 18th January, with the aim of asking the Treasury to review and improve Small Breweries Relief to ensure it supports a...
Cask Ale
SIBA Business Awards Shortlist announced
SIBA has today revealed the shortlist for their much coveted SIBA Business & Industry Awards 2017, with breweries and businesses across the UK named as finalists. With a 20% increase in entries compared to last year, SIBA report the Business Awards 2017 to be...
BBPA issues final warning to Chancellor
With the Budget now just two days away, the British Beer & Pub Association has issued a final warning that any return to beer tax hikes would be a major setback for brewers and pubs. Many pubs are struggling with rocketing business rates and other new costs this...
St Austell announces multi-million investment in Bath Ales
St Austell Brewery has today announced its ambitious plans for Bath Ales which includes a multi-million pound investment and the appointment of a new general manager. The investment in a state-of-the-art new brewery – which is set to double the available brewing...
Giant pint pledge card delivered ahead of budget
Seventy-One Members of Parliament have now signed a pledge card supporting the brewing and pubs sector ahead of the Budget, with leading industry campaigners delivering a giant ‘pint of pledges’ to the Chancellor at the Treasury, today. Graham Evans MP, Chair of the...
BBPA urges Chancellor to reduce duty on beer
British beer exports up - BBPA calls on Chancellor to back British beer in the Budget Six per cent rise in beer exports - and 500 per cent rise to China Beer third most valuable food and drink export Tax cuts needed to foster export growth, says Brigid Simmonds ...
Co-operative pub takes CAMRA Pub of the Year crown
A small village pub which was saved from closure by the local community has won CAMRA’s National Pub of the Year award – one of the most respected and well-known pub awards in the UK. When the closed in 2008 it left the small North Yorkshire village with no other...
Beer and Food
Manchester Beer Week to open with Brewery Open Day
A dozen breweries across Manchester are set to join forces this summer to host the city’s biggest ever brewery open day. The unique event will take place on Saturday June 24, as part of the festivities organised for the opening weekend of Manchester Beer Week. It is a...
Arkell’s brews Loaf of Beer
Wiltshire family brewery Arkell’s Brewery has teamed up with Stroud family baker, Hall’s Bakery to brew a special bread beer, Loaf of Beer. The ingredients which go into making bread and beer are very similar so Arkell’s head brewer Alex Arkell decided to see what...
FEM.ALE Festival returns
Returning to Norwich 26th – 29th May 2017, and in Brighton 5th-7th May, FEM.ALE Festival continues its manifesto to celebrate women in the brewing industry. This year builds on the remarkable success of FEM.ALE going national in both location and profile. Sourcing an...
Adnams AGM Statement
Adnams made the following comments at their AGM on the 27th April 2017. Underlying trading is encouraging with continuing strong growth in our sales of beers and spirits, notably Adnams Ghost Ship and Adnams Copper House Gin. Our enlarged estate of managed inns has...
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...
Insight
ALMR Budget Reaction
ALMR welcomes Budget steps to ease business burdens and encourage investment Budget Statement delivers on key ALMR asks: Sector-specific relief – introduction of relief for pubs Help for businesses hardest hit - £300m pot for local authorities available to...
SIBA Business Awards Shortlist announced
SIBA has today revealed the shortlist for their much coveted SIBA Business & Industry Awards 2017, with breweries and businesses across the UK named as finalists. With a 20% increase in entries compared to last year, SIBA report the Business Awards 2017 to be...
BBPA issues final warning to Chancellor
With the Budget now just two days away, the British Beer & Pub Association has issued a final warning that any return to beer tax hikes would be a major setback for brewers and pubs. Many pubs are struggling with rocketing business rates and other new costs this...
St Austell announces multi-million investment in Bath Ales
St Austell Brewery has today announced its ambitious plans for Bath Ales which includes a multi-million pound investment and the appointment of a new general manager. The investment in a state-of-the-art new brewery – which is set to double the available brewing...
Giant pint pledge card delivered ahead of budget
Seventy-One Members of Parliament have now signed a pledge card supporting the brewing and pubs sector ahead of the Budget, with leading industry campaigners delivering a giant ‘pint of pledges’ to the Chancellor at the Treasury, today. Graham Evans MP, Chair of the...
BBPA urges Chancellor to reduce duty on beer
British beer exports up - BBPA calls on Chancellor to back British beer in the Budget Six per cent rise in beer exports - and 500 per cent rise to China Beer third most valuable food and drink export Tax cuts needed to foster export growth, says Brigid Simmonds ...
Cask Reports
CAMRA’s Champion Winter Beer of Britain 2017
A brewery owned by a Californian has scooped CAMRA's prestigious Champion Winter Beer of Britain award on the opening day of the National Winter Ales Festival, taking place in Norwich this year. Following over a year of local tasting panels and regional heats leading...
Buster Grant elected new SIBA Chairman
Buster Grant, owner and Head Brewer of Brecon Brewing in Wales, has been appointed the new Chairman of SIBA. Buster will take the chair for the first time at SIBA's AGM on 16th March at their annual BeerX event. The appointment comes as current Chairman Guy Sheppard,...
CAMRA’s 2017 AGM
CAMRA's Members’ Weekend, AGM and Conference will bring more than a thousand CAMRA members from across the UK to Bournemouth from the 7-9th April. The main events will be hosted at the Bournemouth International Centre, where discussions on how to widen the campaign in...
Cheltenham Motor Club wins CAMRA’s Club of the Year
A Cheltenham club which caters to motor enthusiasts has won the prestigious CAMRA Club of the Year award for a second time. The Cheltenham Motor Club first secured the coveted title in 2013. Since then, the club has made significant improvements to its seating and bar...
Small Brewer Duty Reform Coalition to commission independent review
Companies representing more than 50 breweries around the UK have now signed up to the Small Brewer Duty Reform Coalition (SBDRC) launched on 18th January, with the aim of asking the Treasury to review and improve Small Breweries Relief to ensure it supports a...
Annabel Smith wins Educator of the Year
Annabel Smith has been named Educator of the Year at the Imbibe Personality of the Year Awards. In an unusual twist, the judges awarded the accolade to two nominees, the other being Myles Cunliffe of the Mixology Group. Smith is a veteran of the beer industry, having...