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New Bunny Hop cask beer from Purity
Award-winning craft brewer Purity Brewing Company is set to launch its first new permanent beer in seven years - an...
Industry response to Chancellor’s Autumn Statement
Brigid Simmonds, Chief Executive, British Beer & Pub Association, has today responded to the announcements made in...
Greene King Leisure Tracker October 2016
Almost 14 million people intend to visit the Great British pub during the festive period, making it the most popular...
CAMRA announces Pub of the Year finalists
CAMRA has revealed the four finalists for its Pub of the Year competition, one of the most respected and well-known...
Cask Marque Chronicle: The Ultimate Pub Quiz – Geeky Beer Facts #1
Cask Marque Chronicle: The Ultimate Pub Quiz – Geeky Beer Facts #1 This week's newsletter has a twist - it's the...
CAMRA calls for a beer duty freeze ahead of the Autumn Statement
CAMRA is calling on the Government to protect the beer and pub sector by maintaining a freeze in beer duty in the...
News
Historical beers to be revived as part of Manchester Beer Week
Long-forgotten beers from Manchester’s past are set to be given a new lease of life as part of Manchester’s first city-wide beer festival. Four of the city’s modern microbreweries have agreed to revive extinct styles as part of an event designed to celebrate the...
Status Quo launch new beer
Members of the rock band Status Quo have created a new ale with Shropshire brewer Hobsons. Francis Rossi and Rick Parfitt recently travelled to Hobsons Brewery in Cleobury Mortimer to sample their Dog Of Two Head ale, named after the 1971 album of the same name. Dog...
Q1 beer sales show encouraging signs of stability says BBPA
Beer sales in the first quarter of 2016 were one per cent down on the same quarter in 2015, according to the latest ‘Beer Barometer’ sales data from the British Beer & Pub Association. The fall was the smallest Q1 drop since 2008, giving further signs of more...
Cask Ale Week 2016
80% of drinkers are interested in going to beer tastings during Cask Ale Week. Many breweries already offer tours, so why not use this opportunity to highlight what you offer, show off the quality of your beer, and bring more people to your brewery? Cask Ale Week is a...
Cask Ale growing in popularity
According to research by Nicholson’s Pubs, Cask Ale is continuing to grow in popularity. This research has come to light as they launch their Spring Beer Festival, running in their pubs across the UK from now until May 2nd, which will feature 52 exciting new cask...
‘Raise Your Glass’
The untold story of Scotland’s brewing heritage is currently being portrayed in the exhibition – 'Raise Your Glass' in the Museum of Edinburgh on the Canongate, once the heartland of brewing in Edinburgh during the 19th & 20th centuries. 'The Raise Your Glass'...
Ale Trail
Winners announced of the SIBA Wales & West Beer Competition 2016
Winners from the ‘Wales & West’ beer competition, run by SIBA, have been announced, with Salopian Brewery taking home the much coveted overall Gold in the cask competition with ‘Hoptwister’ and Gloucester Brewery winning overall champion in the small pack (bottle...
Moorhouse’s launches 2 special event ales
Moorhouse's is rolling out a royal cask ale treat to toast HRH Queen Elizabeth II's 90th birthday celebrations next month. Special brew Ninety (3.9%abv) is a golden brew which brings together the Australian Summer hop for hints of apricot and melon and New Zealand...
Imbibe Live 4 & 5 July
Imbibe Live’s Wheat Beer Challenge is open for entries at live.imbibe.com/beer-challenge. Entrants have until 20 May to register their entry, with delivery of samples between 13-17 June to Fuller’s in Chiswick. The winner will not only score a seasonal listing with a...
Historical beers to be revived as part of Manchester Beer Week
Long-forgotten beers from Manchester’s past are set to be given a new lease of life as part of Manchester’s first city-wide beer festival. Four of the city’s modern microbreweries have agreed to revive extinct styles as part of an event designed to celebrate the...
Status Quo launch new beer
Members of the rock band Status Quo have created a new ale with Shropshire brewer Hobsons. Francis Rossi and Rick Parfitt recently travelled to Hobsons Brewery in Cleobury Mortimer to sample their Dog Of Two Head ale, named after the 1971 album of the same name. Dog...
Q1 beer sales show encouraging signs of stability says BBPA
Beer sales in the first quarter of 2016 were one per cent down on the same quarter in 2015, according to the latest ‘Beer Barometer’ sales data from the British Beer & Pub Association. The fall was the smallest Q1 drop since 2008, giving further signs of more...
Cask Ale
Greene King Leisure Tracker May 2016
Despite on-going economic and political uncertainty surrounding Britain’s membership of the European Union, this month’s Greene King Leisure Tracker indicates that British households are optimistic about their holiday plans for the rest of the year, with 71% of adults...
Fuller’s Master Cellarman 2016
Fuller's has named Kim Rennie from The Crystal Palace in Bath as Master Cellarman of the Year 2016. Kim received the award after excelling in every area of quality control from cellar to glass. The pub impressed the judges, who included Fuller’s Head Brewer, John...
Euro 2016: impact on beer sales
Beer sales in sports pubs were up 41.63% on 11 June as England and Wales played their opening Euro 2016 matches, according to beer quality expert Vianet. The company has partnered with Propel to dig deeper into the impact sporting events have on sales. Vianet said...
Cask Marque launches Scores on the Cellar Doors
Cask Marque are launching a new scheme, Scores on the Cellar Doors, to address a number of problems which still persist with pub retailing of beer, namely around quality and beer yields. Cask Marque has identified the following areas which need to be addressed: 1 in...
Beer Day Britain is here!
Beer Day Britain, the day to celebrate beer, Britain’s national drink, is here! – and the BBPA is at the heart of the celebrations. Beer lovers across the country will join in raising a glass and saying ‘Cheers to Beer’ at 7pm on June 15th, the same date the Magna...
1st Golden Ale is 30 years old
Thirty years ago Exmoor Ales (then called Golden Hill), created a special one-off beer to celebrate its 1000th brew. That beer was Exmoor Gold and it has been brewed ever since, winning many of awards on the way and it has now become the company’s flagship. In a move...
Beer and Food
CAMRA names top 16 pubs
As its launches the latest 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 features a wide range of different types of pubs, from community owned, to pubs...
Camerons to launch beer with Motörhead
Camerons Brewery have teamed up with legendary rock band Motörhead and Global Merchandising Services to create an exciting new collaboration beer. The North East brewer has been working alongside the band to develop the beer over the last few months and are looking to...
BBPA relaunches campaign to help licensees & customers understand laws around serving drunks
The BBPA has today relaunched a poster campaign to help raise awareness and understanding of the law around serving drunks, to coincide with Global Beer Responsibility Day on Friday, 16th September. Partnering with Drinkaware and National Pubwatch, the poster campaign...
New ‘safe drinking’ limits are rocky road to prohibition
The 2017 Good Beer Guide says the move to restrict drinking to no more than 14 units a week for men and women is bad science. “This is the rocky road to Prohibition,” the Guide’s editor, Roger Protz, says. “I’m glad that in August the government rowed back on the...
London is Beer Boom City
The 2017 edition of the Good Beer Guide published by CAMRA charts the remarkable rebirth of brewing in London. The capital was dubbed a “beer desert” by the Campaign in the 1970s but now the guide lists 69 breweries, with five more due to open in the near future....
Good Beer Guide warns global brewers threaten choice
Real ale may be the success story of British beer, but the new Good Beer Guide, published by CARMA, warns of possible threats posed by global brewers moving into the buoyant cask sector. The new edition of the Guide - this year sponsored by beer quality assessor Cask...
Insight
Greene King Leisure Tracker May 2016
Despite on-going economic and political uncertainty surrounding Britain’s membership of the European Union, this month’s Greene King Leisure Tracker indicates that British households are optimistic about their holiday plans for the rest of the year, with 71% of adults...
Fuller’s Master Cellarman 2016
Fuller's has named Kim Rennie from The Crystal Palace in Bath as Master Cellarman of the Year 2016. Kim received the award after excelling in every area of quality control from cellar to glass. The pub impressed the judges, who included Fuller’s Head Brewer, John...
Euro 2016: impact on beer sales
Beer sales in sports pubs were up 41.63% on 11 June as England and Wales played their opening Euro 2016 matches, according to beer quality expert Vianet. The company has partnered with Propel to dig deeper into the impact sporting events have on sales. Vianet said...
Cask Marque launches Scores on the Cellar Doors
Cask Marque are launching a new scheme, Scores on the Cellar Doors, to address a number of problems which still persist with pub retailing of beer, namely around quality and beer yields. Cask Marque has identified the following areas which need to be addressed: 1 in...
Beer Day Britain is here!
Beer Day Britain, the day to celebrate beer, Britain’s national drink, is here! – and the BBPA is at the heart of the celebrations. Beer lovers across the country will join in raising a glass and saying ‘Cheers to Beer’ at 7pm on June 15th, the same date the Magna...
1st Golden Ale is 30 years old
Thirty years ago Exmoor Ales (then called Golden Hill), created a special one-off beer to celebrate its 1000th brew. That beer was Exmoor Gold and it has been brewed ever since, winning many of awards on the way and it has now become the company’s flagship. In a move...
Cask Reports
Moorhouse’s launches 2 special event ales
Moorhouse's is rolling out a royal cask ale treat to toast HRH Queen Elizabeth II's 90th birthday celebrations next month. Special brew Ninety (3.9%abv) is a golden brew which brings together the Australian Summer hop for hints of apricot and melon and New Zealand...
Imbibe Live 4 & 5 July
Imbibe Live’s Wheat Beer Challenge is open for entries at live.imbibe.com/beer-challenge. Entrants have until 20 May to register their entry, with delivery of samples between 13-17 June to Fuller’s in Chiswick. The winner will not only score a seasonal listing with a...
Historical beers to be revived as part of Manchester Beer Week
Long-forgotten beers from Manchester’s past are set to be given a new lease of life as part of Manchester’s first city-wide beer festival. Four of the city’s modern microbreweries have agreed to revive extinct styles as part of an event designed to celebrate the...
Status Quo launch new beer
Members of the rock band Status Quo have created a new ale with Shropshire brewer Hobsons. Francis Rossi and Rick Parfitt recently travelled to Hobsons Brewery in Cleobury Mortimer to sample their Dog Of Two Head ale, named after the 1971 album of the same name. Dog...
Q1 beer sales show encouraging signs of stability says BBPA
Beer sales in the first quarter of 2016 were one per cent down on the same quarter in 2015, according to the latest ‘Beer Barometer’ sales data from the British Beer & Pub Association. The fall was the smallest Q1 drop since 2008, giving further signs of more...
Cask Ale Week 2016
80% of drinkers are interested in going to beer tastings during Cask Ale Week. Many breweries already offer tours, so why not use this opportunity to highlight what you offer, show off the quality of your beer, and bring more people to your brewery? Cask Ale Week is a...