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Decline of Global Beverage Alcohol Consumption Accelerates
According to the IWSR’s latest data release (2016 data), the consumption of alcoholic drinks is declining at an...
Greene King collaborates with Barmy Army to create a new beer
With the domestic cricket season and international cricketing summer underway, British brewer Greene King and...
Brains encourages Bale to score in Champions League Final
Wales’ biggest brewer and hospitality company, Brains, is offering customers a free pint if Gareth Bale scores in...
Bath Ales launches Prophecy as a permanent
Bath Ales has unveiled a new permanent beer. Initially launched as a limited-edition ale in Bath Ales’ pubs, Prophecy...
Dea Latis announces new support from brewers
Beer and women group Dea Latis is stepping up its campaign to ‘bring beer to women' after securing support from five...
St Austell’s Brewery Experience attracts visitors from around the world
Following a hugely successful first year since opening its doors in 2016, including a doubling of footfall across the...
News
Norwich pubs to host fringe events around the National Winter Ales Festival
In a week of celebration, pubs across Norwich city centre will host fringe events, including special food, drink and music offerings to mark CAMRA’s National Winter Ales Festival, which takes place from the 21st-25th of February. The Fringe Festival will start on the...
CAMRA calls for a penny off your pint
With the Chancellor’s Budget just over a month away, CAMRA is ramping up its campaign to call on the government to keep the price of your pint down. CAMRA is leading the campaign by calling on the Treasury to reduce beer duty by 1p ahead of the Budget on the 8th...
Beer Now Speakers Announced
Beer Now is a new conference that focuses on marketing, tourism, and communications for today’s beer industry. The conference will take place during SIBA’s BeerX at iceSheffield from March 17-19. The Keynote speaker is Bob Pease, President & CEO of the US-based...
Charles Wells’ 140th Year ends on a high
The UK’s largest independent brewer, Charles Wells, ended its 140th year since the brewery opened on a high, thanks to increased profit from managed houses, investment in Leased and Tenanted Pubs, and extended and new contracts across their world beers portfolio....
Georgina Young becomes first female head brewer at Fuller’s
Fuller, Smith & Turner, the London brewer and premium pub company, announces that as of Monday [January 30, 2017] Georgina Young will become Head Brewer. Simon Dodd, Managing Director of The Fuller’s Beer Company, said: “This is a fantastic move for George and...
Mike Benner to speak at Brewers’ Association ‘Craft Brewers Conference’
Mike Benner, SIBA's MD, has been invited to speak at the Brewers Association ‘Craft Brewers Conference & BevExpo’ in Washington DC. Focusing on SIBA as the UK’s independent craft brewing trade association, Mr Benner will be discussing his vision for the future of...
Ale Trail
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...
Norwich pubs to host fringe events around the National Winter Ales Festival
In a week of celebration, pubs across Norwich city centre will host fringe events, including special food, drink and music offerings to mark CAMRA’s National Winter Ales Festival, which takes place from the 21st-25th of February. The Fringe Festival will start on the...
CAMRA calls for a penny off your pint
With the Chancellor’s Budget just over a month away, CAMRA is ramping up its campaign to call on the government to keep the price of your pint down. CAMRA is leading the campaign by calling on the Treasury to reduce beer duty by 1p ahead of the Budget on the 8th...
Beer Now Speakers Announced
Beer Now is a new conference that focuses on marketing, tourism, and communications for today’s beer industry. The conference will take place during SIBA’s BeerX at iceSheffield from March 17-19. The Keynote speaker is Bob Pease, President & CEO of the US-based...
Cask Ale
Great British Beer Festival celebrates 40 years
Beer lovers flocking to London this summer to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the Great British Beer Festival will not be left disappointed as festival organisers are busy brewing up an experience unlike ever before. Britain’s biggest beer festival is a paradise for...
There’s A Beer For That #dinewithbeer
Pub and restaurant operators are being urged to engage with #dinewithbeer – a new initiative from There’s A Beer For That - to help consumers discover there's more to beer than they might think and to boost their own beer sales as a result. In particular, they're...
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...
Beer and Food
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...
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...
Insight
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...
Great British Beer Festival celebrates 40 years
Beer lovers flocking to London this summer to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the Great British Beer Festival will not be left disappointed as festival organisers are busy brewing up an experience unlike ever before. Britain’s biggest beer festival is a paradise for...
There’s A Beer For That #dinewithbeer
Pub and restaurant operators are being urged to engage with #dinewithbeer – a new initiative from There’s A Beer For That - to help consumers discover there's more to beer than they might think and to boost their own beer sales as a result. In particular, they're...
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,...
Cask Reports
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...
Norwich pubs to host fringe events around the National Winter Ales Festival
In a week of celebration, pubs across Norwich city centre will host fringe events, including special food, drink and music offerings to mark CAMRA’s National Winter Ales Festival, which takes place from the 21st-25th of February. The Fringe Festival will start on the...
CAMRA calls for a penny off your pint
With the Chancellor’s Budget just over a month away, CAMRA is ramping up its campaign to call on the government to keep the price of your pint down. CAMRA is leading the campaign by calling on the Treasury to reduce beer duty by 1p ahead of the Budget on the 8th...
Beer Now Speakers Announced
Beer Now is a new conference that focuses on marketing, tourism, and communications for today’s beer industry. The conference will take place during SIBA’s BeerX at iceSheffield from March 17-19. The Keynote speaker is Bob Pease, President & CEO of the US-based...
Charles Wells’ 140th Year ends on a high
The UK’s largest independent brewer, Charles Wells, ended its 140th year since the brewery opened on a high, thanks to increased profit from managed houses, investment in Leased and Tenanted Pubs, and extended and new contracts across their world beers portfolio....