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Hawkshead Brewery shows good growth
Lake District brewer Hawkshead grew sales by 9% in the last year and profits before tax by 50%. The financial year...
Cask Report 2016-17
he latest 2016-17 Cask Report is out and ready for reading. According to the Report's...
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...
90th birthday Ale Trail for number 11 bus
Europe’s longest urban bus route, Birmingham’s famous number 11, is celebrating its 90th birthday with an anniversary...
Camerons to launch beer with Motörhead
Camerons Brewery have teamed up with legendary rock band Motörhead and Global Merchandising Services to create an...
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...
News
Cut beer tax campaign launches film
With the 2016 Budget just around the corner, a new campaign short film calls for cut in beer duty. The campaigning film uses key facts to makes a convincing case for a one penny cut in beer duty in the Budget. The one-minute animated film, now available on YouTube,...
National Winter Ales Festival 2016
Find out which beer will be named the CAMRA Champion Winter Beer of Britain (CWBOB) this year at CAMRA’s National Winter Ales Festival. CAMRA’s second biggest national festival will be taking place at the Derby Roundhouse for a second year in a row. This is the...
Craft Beer Rising 2016
Craft Beer Rising has a mission: ‘To take great beer to the masses’. This year's CBR features a mix of cask, kegged, canned and bottled beer all under one roof at the Old Truman Brewery in London. There will be over 150 breweries from the UK and beyond as well as...
PUB16 February 9 & 10
PUB16 launched in 2015 to celebrate the UK pub industry's innovations, trends, products, services and people. Bringing together key trade associations, business leaders, key decision makers, pub owners, entrepreneurs and pub companies, PUB16 runs from February 9-10th...
Ale on the rise as lager goes flat
It seems that Britain’s lager segment is struggling to retain its fizz, as it faces particularly strong competition from the rising popularity of ales and bitters, whose success has been fuelled by the craft beer boom. Indeed, new research from market intelligence...
Going to the pub is good for you
New research from Oxford University today reveals that people who have a ‘local’ pub are not only significantly happier than those who do not, but also have higher life satisfaction and have more close friends. The report (which you can download here), written by...
Ale Trail
CAMRA’s Champion Winter Beer of Britain 2016
After over a year of local tasting panels and regional heats leading up to the finals, the Campaign for Real Ale, CAMRA, has announced that today Chocolate Marble has been crowned the Best Winter Beer in Britain at the National Winter Ales Festival, Derby. The...
Rachel Evans joins Cask Marque assessment team
Trade quality expert Rachel Evans has joined industry beer quality champions Cask Marque and will be checking beer quality in the Midlands area as well as supporting the Mitchells and Butlers a Cask Marque Corporate Member. Rachel, joins Annabel Smith as the UK’s...
Beer Day Britain
Beer Day Britain 2016 is the country’s national beer day and will take place on June 15th. The date is also significant because it was on June 15th 2015 that the Magna Carta was sealed in 1215. Ale is mentioned in Clause 35 of Magna Carta. The aim of Beer Day Britain...
Cut beer tax campaign launches film
With the 2016 Budget just around the corner, a new campaign short film calls for cut in beer duty. The campaigning film uses key facts to makes a convincing case for a one penny cut in beer duty in the Budget. The one-minute animated film, now available on YouTube,...
National Winter Ales Festival 2016
Find out which beer will be named the CAMRA Champion Winter Beer of Britain (CWBOB) this year at CAMRA’s National Winter Ales Festival. CAMRA’s second biggest national festival will be taking place at the Derby Roundhouse for a second year in a row. This is the...
Craft Beer Rising 2016
Craft Beer Rising has a mission: ‘To take great beer to the masses’. This year's CBR features a mix of cask, kegged, canned and bottled beer all under one roof at the Old Truman Brewery in London. There will be over 150 breweries from the UK and beyond as well as...
Cask Ale
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...
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...
Beer and Food
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...
CAMRA’s Champion Beer to be announced at a new event
CAMRA is to announce the winners of its Champion Beer of Britain competition at a new awards ceremony. This will take place at a grand dinner at the Hilton London Olympia Hotel on 9 August on the evening of the Trade Day of CAMRA’s Great British Beer Festival (GBBF) –...
Greene King IPA changes to Greene Queen
To mark the official 90th birthday celebrations of HM Queen Elizabeth II this weekend, Greene King IPA is temporarily changing its name – to Greene Queen IPA. A limited edition Greene Queen IPA pump clip will appear on the bars of 90 hand-picked pubs to commemorate...
Insight
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...
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...
Cask Reports
Rachel Evans joins Cask Marque assessment team
Trade quality expert Rachel Evans has joined industry beer quality champions Cask Marque and will be checking beer quality in the Midlands area as well as supporting the Mitchells and Butlers a Cask Marque Corporate Member. Rachel, joins Annabel Smith as the UK’s...
Beer Day Britain
Beer Day Britain 2016 is the country’s national beer day and will take place on June 15th. The date is also significant because it was on June 15th 2015 that the Magna Carta was sealed in 1215. Ale is mentioned in Clause 35 of Magna Carta. The aim of Beer Day Britain...
Cut beer tax campaign launches film
With the 2016 Budget just around the corner, a new campaign short film calls for cut in beer duty. The campaigning film uses key facts to makes a convincing case for a one penny cut in beer duty in the Budget. The one-minute animated film, now available on YouTube,...
National Winter Ales Festival 2016
Find out which beer will be named the CAMRA Champion Winter Beer of Britain (CWBOB) this year at CAMRA’s National Winter Ales Festival. CAMRA’s second biggest national festival will be taking place at the Derby Roundhouse for a second year in a row. This is the...
Craft Beer Rising 2016
Craft Beer Rising has a mission: ‘To take great beer to the masses’. This year's CBR features a mix of cask, kegged, canned and bottled beer all under one roof at the Old Truman Brewery in London. There will be over 150 breweries from the UK and beyond as well as...
PUB16 February 9 & 10
PUB16 launched in 2015 to celebrate the UK pub industry's innovations, trends, products, services and people. Bringing together key trade associations, business leaders, key decision makers, pub owners, entrepreneurs and pub companies, PUB16 runs from February 9-10th...