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CAMRA extends revitalisation project
CAMRA is to extend its Revitalisation Project to ensure that its members have the necessary time to understand any...
Marston’s establishes hop garden in Kent
A five-year investment project by Marston’s Beer Company to establish its own hop garden in Kent has meant Hayle Farm...
Greene King Leisure Tracker September 2016
This month’s Greene King Leisure Spend Tracker highlights the importance of Halloween to youngsters aged 18-24 years...
Cask Marque Chronicle: Are Your Staff Clued Up On Cask?
As part of Cask Marque's continued support for the cask ale industry, we have put together a series of guidelines on...
St Austell wins BBPA Beer Champion award
Awards for Palmers, St Austell, Waitrose and Joseph Holt’s, alongside a Chairman’s Award for The Rugby Football Union...
Brexit – BBPA publishes manifesto for British beer and pubs
The British Beer & Pub Association has today published a manifesto for Britain’s exit from the European Union,...
News
Drinkers’ quest for beer knowledge
A new study looking at British drinking habits has today thrown up some surprising results, with a clear trend towards consumers becoming more selective in the beer they drink, as discerning drinkers develop a thirst for beer knowledge following an explosion in...
Beer Quality Report 2016
Welcome to the first Beer Quality Report – the definitive assessment of draught beer quality in the on-trade. Consumers across the spectrum are demanding higher quality products, and nowhere is this more evident than in the beer sector where, as revealed in the recent...
Beer Duty Frozen
BBPA Commenting on the freeze in beer duty and business rates support for pubs announced in today’s Budget, BBPA Chief Executive Brigid Simmonds said: “This freeze means that beer duty is now 17 per cent lower than it would have been, had the Chancellor stuck with the...
What is craft?
Whilst craft drinks have revolutionised the alcoholic drinks industry over the past decade, it seems that many Brits are still unsure as to what the term ‘craft’ actually means. New research from Mintel highlights strong demand for alcoholic drink companies to create...
Hopes high for British brewers
The Society of Independent Brewers (SIBA) annual members’ survey, the results of which are being presented at SIBA’s BeerX in Sheffield today, paints a confident picture for the brewing industry, with four out of five brewers expecting their turnover to increase in...
Report warns that beer duty increase could be harmful
A new research report published today warns that if the Chancellor goes ahead with plans to increase beer duty in this month’s budget (16 March), the consequences could severely damage the pub and brewing industry. The report by the Centre for Economics & Business...
Ale Trail
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...
Drinkers’ quest for beer knowledge
A new study looking at British drinking habits has today thrown up some surprising results, with a clear trend towards consumers becoming more selective in the beer they drink, as discerning drinkers develop a thirst for beer knowledge following an explosion in...
Beer Quality Report 2016
Welcome to the first Beer Quality Report – the definitive assessment of draught beer quality in the on-trade. Consumers across the spectrum are demanding higher quality products, and nowhere is this more evident than in the beer sector where, as revealed in the recent...
Beer Duty Frozen
BBPA Commenting on the freeze in beer duty and business rates support for pubs announced in today’s Budget, BBPA Chief Executive Brigid Simmonds said: “This freeze means that beer duty is now 17 per cent lower than it would have been, had the Chancellor stuck with the...
Cask Ale
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...
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...
Beer and Food
Local Beer could beat Brexit Blues for Britain’s pubs and bars
As consumer confidence falls and experts predict negative consumer effects following the Brexit vote, a glimmer of positivity is coming from an unexpected source. SIBA, the Society of Independent Brewers, is predicting a boost in consumer passion for local beers from...
Great British Beer Festival 2016
This year’s Great British Beer Festival (GBBF) is set to be the best ever, with everything from limited edition brews and one-off specials from some of our best known real ale breweries, to award-winning favourites from microbreweries across the UK and even an...
Buoyant British beer sales up 31 million pints in Q2
Buoyant British beer sales in Q2 shows further signs of reversing a long period of decline, with sales up 1.5 per cent, it has been announced today. The rise means Britons enjoyed 31 million extra pints from April to June, compared with the same period in 2015. The...
Cask Marque key to Cask Ale Sales Growth in Pubs
A recent survey of Cask Marque pubs found that 81% of the pubs had positive growth in cask ale sales in 2015 and 79% said that the Cask Marque award had brought extra customers. An impressive 94% of pubs surveyed offered 'Try before you buy' at all times. When asked...
Greene King Leisure Tracker June 2016
Come rain or sun, this month’s Greene King Leisure Spend Tracker reveals that British consumers have specific eating and drinking preferences during the summer months. Just over half of those surveyed admit that they adapt their leisure habits from June to August in...
Good Beer Guide to be sponsored by Cask Marque
Cask Marque is sponsoring the 2017 Good Beer Guide. The 44th edition of the Campaign for Real Ale’s (CAMRA) Good Beer Guide will be published in September and will list the best 4,500 pubs in the country chosen by its 180,000-plus membership. The book also lists the...
Insight
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...
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...
Cask Reports
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...
Drinkers’ quest for beer knowledge
A new study looking at British drinking habits has today thrown up some surprising results, with a clear trend towards consumers becoming more selective in the beer they drink, as discerning drinkers develop a thirst for beer knowledge following an explosion in...
Beer Quality Report 2016
Welcome to the first Beer Quality Report – the definitive assessment of draught beer quality in the on-trade. Consumers across the spectrum are demanding higher quality products, and nowhere is this more evident than in the beer sector where, as revealed in the recent...
Beer Duty Frozen
BBPA Commenting on the freeze in beer duty and business rates support for pubs announced in today’s Budget, BBPA Chief Executive Brigid Simmonds said: “This freeze means that beer duty is now 17 per cent lower than it would have been, had the Chancellor stuck with the...
What is craft?
Whilst craft drinks have revolutionised the alcoholic drinks industry over the past decade, it seems that many Brits are still unsure as to what the term ‘craft’ actually means. New research from Mintel highlights strong demand for alcoholic drink companies to create...