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Cask Marque Chronicle: Educating Your Consumers
As part of Cask Marque's continued support for the cask ale industry, we have put together a series of guidelines on...
Beer sales down in Q3 despite positive trend
British beer sales posted a decline in Q3 when compared with last year, but the trend is still broadly positive for...
Marston’s invests £1million in new image
Marston’s beers have been given a striking new look in a revolutionary departure from its traditional imagery in a bid...
CAMRA members urged to feed back on final survey into the organisation’s future
Members of CAMRA are being given a final chance to influence the group charged with reviewing its future direction and...
Cask Marque Chronicle: How Do Your Customers Taste Beer?
How Do Your Customers Taste Beer? As part of Cask Marque's continued support for the cask ale industry, we have put...
CASK MARQUE CHRONICLE: PREMIUMISING CASK BEER
As part of Cask Marque's continued support for the cask ale industry, we have put together a series of guidelines on...
News
Exclusive brew for Ember Inns
Ember Inns is investing in cask ale by launching Ember Inns Pale Ale in collaboration with Black Sheep Brewery. This new beer will be served across Embers' 147 UK pubs. Cask Marque-accredited Ember Inns demonstrates its commitment to cask. Up to 10 cask ales,...
CAMRA National Club of the Year 2016
CAMRA has today announced the winner of its National Club of the Year Competition as the Albatross RAFA Club in Bexhill-on-Sea which saw off competition from more than 28,000 clubs nationwide. Club Mirror magazine and CAMRA joined forces three years ago in the quest...
Carlsberg UK launches new Tapsters brochure with more ales than before
Carlsberg UK has launched the 2016 edition of its award-winning Tapster’s Cask Ale Brochure with a fresh new look and an extended portfolio that now includes almost 250 ales. Now available to Carlsberg UK’s on-trade customers, the brochure has been redesigned with a...
New brew from Iron Maiden and Robinsons
Iron Maiden and Robinsons Brewery have announced ‘TROOPER Red ‘N’ Black – a new limited edition beer from their award-winning TROOPER range – which will be available worldwide from September 2016 in cask and bottle. TROOPER Red ‘N’ Black Porter is the third beer in...
St Austell Brewery announces opening time on new Small Batch Beer Club
As St Austell Brewery’s Small Batch Brewery gears up to maximum production, the pubs that will form the core of the newly established Small Batch Beer Club have been announced, giving ale lovers across the South West the chance to catch up on all of their innovative...
SIBA Cask Champion 2016
Scottish and Welsh breweries have beaten England in SIBA’s National Beer Awards competition. Loch Lomond Brewery’s Southern Summit took home Gold in the cask Supreme champion category of the competition, seen by many as the pinnacle of brewing excellence in these...
Ale Trail
Woodforde’s Brewery sold
Woodforde’s Ltd, the award-winning Norfolk-based brewery, has announced that it has been purchased by a private consortium of investors. The consortium is led by James Hughes, formerly of drinks business Diageo, and includes Nick Dolan from beer specialists Real Ale...
BeerX round up
40% increase in BeerX trade attendees More than 20% increase in BeerX exhibitors SIBA launches new research at BeerX that highlights new hospitality markets for independent craft brewers SIBA to review the use of Cyclops Beer tasting notes as part of their...
CAMRA considers its future
After 45 years of being one of the largest single-issue consumer groups in the world, the Campaign for Real Ale (CAMRA) could be coming to an end. The organisation is embarking on a consultation of as many as possible of its nearly 180,000 members to ask them who and...
Exclusive brew for Ember Inns
Ember Inns is investing in cask ale by launching Ember Inns Pale Ale in collaboration with Black Sheep Brewery. This new beer will be served across Embers' 147 UK pubs. Cask Marque-accredited Ember Inns demonstrates its commitment to cask. Up to 10 cask ales,...
CAMRA National Club of the Year 2016
CAMRA has today announced the winner of its National Club of the Year Competition as the Albatross RAFA Club in Bexhill-on-Sea which saw off competition from more than 28,000 clubs nationwide. Club Mirror magazine and CAMRA joined forces three years ago in the quest...
Carlsberg UK launches new Tapsters brochure with more ales than before
Carlsberg UK has launched the 2016 edition of its award-winning Tapster’s Cask Ale Brochure with a fresh new look and an extended portfolio that now includes almost 250 ales. Now available to Carlsberg UK’s on-trade customers, the brochure has been redesigned with a...
Cask Ale
Female drinkers believe brewers are improving their approach to women
Beer and women forum Dea Latis has unveiled the findings of a new survey into the relationship between women and our national drink. The results were delivered to an audience at the new Brewing Equipment & Technology exhibition at the NEC. The online survey, which...
Cheltenham to be the first town to stage a ‘Beer Week’
This September Cheltenham will become the first town (as opposed to city) in the UK to hold a dedicated ‘Beer Week’. Cheltenham Beer Week (CBW) will be a collection of events held across a ten-day period from 16th to 25th September. Its purpose is simple - to...
Lees and Cloudwater collaborate on new beer
Manchester’s oldest family brewer, JW Lees joins forces with Cloudwater Brew Co, one of the city’s most celebrated craft brewers to create a ground-breaking new beer for Manchester Beer Week, Mcr Fold. JW Lees Head Brewer, Michael Lees-Jones and Cloudwater Brew Co’s...
Punch back Cyclops Beer
Punch, one of the UK’s biggest pub groups with around 3,300 leased and tenanted pubs, have recently made accreditation by Cyclops Beer a condition of their Finest Cask Programme. Finest Cask is a scheme exclusively available to Punch Publicans, with over 800 Punch...
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...
Beer and Food
Cask Ale Week 2016
Cask Ale Week is fast approaching. Have you decided what you can do to celebrate this special event and sell more cask ale? Below you will find a selection of activity that will be taking place at pubs and breweries across the country. You can also search for the...
Cask Ale Week Interview with Paul Nunny
Q: What is Cask Ale Week? A: 10 days’ celebration of Britain’s national drink Q: Who can join in? A: All breweries who produce cask ale – and all pubs that sell it. All we ask is that you use the Cask Ale Week logo and inform us of your plans via the Cask Ale Week...
Champion Beer of Britain 2016
A speciality beer has won CAMRA’s Supreme Champion Beer of Britain for the first time. Bingham’s Vanilla Stout, brewed in Berkshire, was named the best beer of 2016 at the Champion Beer of Britain Awards Dinner held on Tuesday evening (9 August) at the Hilton Hotel,...
CAMRA calls for alcohol guidelines consultation as public disagree with advice
More than half the public disagree with official health guidelines on alcohol consumption, according to new figures released by the Campaign for Real Ale. Of 2,040 people surveyed by YouGov, 61 per cent agreed that moderate alcohol consumption could be part of a...
Independent Brewers take back Craft Beer
SIBA has today launched an initiative to promote ‘Assured Independent British Craft Breweries’ in an effort to provide greater clarity for consumers looking to purchase beer from genuinely independent craft breweries in the UK. With over 850 brewing members in the UK,...
Over 100 million pints of independent craft-brewed beer sold
Over 100 million pints of beer have been sold through a scheme designed to get craft-brewed beer from some of the smallest brewers into the UK’s largest pub companies. Now in its 14th year, BeerFlex was setup by the Society of Independent Brewers (SIBA) to get their...
Insight
Female drinkers believe brewers are improving their approach to women
Beer and women forum Dea Latis has unveiled the findings of a new survey into the relationship between women and our national drink. The results were delivered to an audience at the new Brewing Equipment & Technology exhibition at the NEC. The online survey, which...
Cheltenham to be the first town to stage a ‘Beer Week’
This September Cheltenham will become the first town (as opposed to city) in the UK to hold a dedicated ‘Beer Week’. Cheltenham Beer Week (CBW) will be a collection of events held across a ten-day period from 16th to 25th September. Its purpose is simple - to...
Lees and Cloudwater collaborate on new beer
Manchester’s oldest family brewer, JW Lees joins forces with Cloudwater Brew Co, one of the city’s most celebrated craft brewers to create a ground-breaking new beer for Manchester Beer Week, Mcr Fold. JW Lees Head Brewer, Michael Lees-Jones and Cloudwater Brew Co’s...
Punch back Cyclops Beer
Punch, one of the UK’s biggest pub groups with around 3,300 leased and tenanted pubs, have recently made accreditation by Cyclops Beer a condition of their Finest Cask Programme. Finest Cask is a scheme exclusively available to Punch Publicans, with over 800 Punch...
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...
Cask Reports
BeerX round up
40% increase in BeerX trade attendees More than 20% increase in BeerX exhibitors SIBA launches new research at BeerX that highlights new hospitality markets for independent craft brewers SIBA to review the use of Cyclops Beer tasting notes as part of their...
CAMRA considers its future
After 45 years of being one of the largest single-issue consumer groups in the world, the Campaign for Real Ale (CAMRA) could be coming to an end. The organisation is embarking on a consultation of as many as possible of its nearly 180,000 members to ask them who and...
Exclusive brew for Ember Inns
Ember Inns is investing in cask ale by launching Ember Inns Pale Ale in collaboration with Black Sheep Brewery. This new beer will be served across Embers' 147 UK pubs. Cask Marque-accredited Ember Inns demonstrates its commitment to cask. Up to 10 cask ales,...
CAMRA National Club of the Year 2016
CAMRA has today announced the winner of its National Club of the Year Competition as the Albatross RAFA Club in Bexhill-on-Sea which saw off competition from more than 28,000 clubs nationwide. Club Mirror magazine and CAMRA joined forces three years ago in the quest...
Carlsberg UK launches new Tapsters brochure with more ales than before
Carlsberg UK has launched the 2016 edition of its award-winning Tapster’s Cask Ale Brochure with a fresh new look and an extended portfolio that now includes almost 250 ales. Now available to Carlsberg UK’s on-trade customers, the brochure has been redesigned with a...
New brew from Iron Maiden and Robinsons
Iron Maiden and Robinsons Brewery have announced ‘TROOPER Red ‘N’ Black – a new limited edition beer from their award-winning TROOPER range – which will be available worldwide from September 2016 in cask and bottle. TROOPER Red ‘N’ Black Porter is the third beer in...