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Trooper Red ‘N’ Black launched
TROOPER Red ‘N’ Black, the third beer from Iron Maiden and Robinsons Brewery, has been released worldwide through...
Beer Now Conference to follow BeerX
SIBA and Zephyr Conferences announced today the first-ever Beer Now Conference will take place next March 17-19 in...
Greene King Leisure Tracker July 2016
This month’s Greene King Leisure Spend Tracker reveals that many British households are worried about the economic...
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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...
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...
News
Cyclops reaches key milestones
Cyclops Beer has accredited 100 keg and canned beers, as well as over 2,000 cask and bottled beers from 400 breweries around the UK. The number of accredited breweries has increased by 25% in the last 12 months. The accreditation scheme was originally set up for cask...
Moorhouse brewery reveals new beers for 2016
Moorhouse’s has unveiled a raft of adventurous seasonal brews for roll out throughout 2016. The brewery team has explored a range of malt and hop varieties to support publicans with a creative, but dependable, guest range alongside a six strong core portfolio. It...
MPs unite to cheer Maris Otter Barley
Malt from the 50th anniversary Maris Otter barley harvest is on the market and will be available to brewers for the production of craft beers for the next ten months or so. To celebrate Maris Otter’s extraordinary half century, two MPs put aside party differences to...
Wheat Beer Challenge launched
Following its successful debut in 2015, Imbibe Live’s beer competition will return in June 2016 with a Wheat Beer Challenge for the brewers of Britain. Imbibe Live’s beer ambassador, Mark Dorber, founder of Boudica Inns, is inviting brewers large and small to enter...
Robinsons’ seasonal beers increase by 17%
Robinsons Brewery have announced a 17% volume increase of their 2015 limited edition seasonal ales and revealed their 2016 line-up. Across the brewer’s 300 strong pub estate and nationally through listings across the country, over 728,000 pints of Robinsons seasonal...
Hogs Back Brewery serves up first White Bine beer in a century
Hogs Back Brewery and Enterprise Inns are joining forces to encourage beer drinkers into pubs during January with a world-exclusive opportunity to enjoy a beer brewed with the Farnham White Bine hop. Hogs Back Brewery Farnham White bitter marks the return of the...
Ale Trail
Brewers Research & Education Fund open for applications for 2016
A major grants fund that provides funding for scientific research and education in the brewing industry has just begun inviting applications for funding in 2016/17 via the BBPA website. Applicants have three months to submit their bids, with a deadline for funding...
Everards awarded SALSA plus Beer
Based just south of Leicester, Everards Brewery Ltd is an independent family-owned business widely renowned for its flagship brand and award winning, Tiger Best Bitter. Brewing since 1849, the Company, under fifth generation chairman Richard Everard, firmly believes...
New alcohol guidelines show increased risk of cancer
New guidelines for alcohol consumption, produced by the UK Chief Medical Officers, warn that drinking any level of alcohol increases the risk of a range of cancers. This is supported by a new review from the Committee on Carcinogenicity (CoC) on alcohol and cancer...
Cyclops reaches key milestones
Cyclops Beer has accredited 100 keg and canned beers, as well as over 2,000 cask and bottled beers from 400 breweries around the UK. The number of accredited breweries has increased by 25% in the last 12 months. The accreditation scheme was originally set up for cask...
Moorhouse brewery reveals new beers for 2016
Moorhouse’s has unveiled a raft of adventurous seasonal brews for roll out throughout 2016. The brewery team has explored a range of malt and hop varieties to support publicans with a creative, but dependable, guest range alongside a six strong core portfolio. It...
MPs unite to cheer Maris Otter Barley
Malt from the 50th anniversary Maris Otter barley harvest is on the market and will be available to brewers for the production of craft beers for the next ten months or so. To celebrate Maris Otter’s extraordinary half century, two MPs put aside party differences to...
Cask Ale
72 per cent back cut or freeze in beer duty
Calls for more action to tackle Britain’s high rates of beer duty are popular with the general public, according to a poll from YouGov for the BBPA, – 72 per cent support either a cut or freeze in beer duty to support pubs, with just 18 per cent supporting a tax rise...
Enterprise works with Annabel Smith to maximise cask beer sales
Beer sommelier Annabel Smith is to provide expert advice to Enterprise Inns’ publicans as part of the company’s ongoing commitment to providing support and training across all key elements of running a pub. As part of her work with the industry-wide campaign There’s a...
BeerX 2016 Preview
SIBA BeerX 2016, the leading annual showcase for independent brewers, will be held at the iceSheffield arena in Sheffield from March 16-19. The March craft beer ‘fest’ will showcase more than 250 beers. The BeerX festival is organised annually by the Society’s...
Brakspear brings back mild
Henley brewer and pub operator Brakspear is brewing Brakspear Mild at its Bell Street Brewery to the original recipe for the beer, which was last brewed in 1996 at the New Street Brakspear brewery in the town. Brakspear Mild, a 3% ABV beer, is available exclusively to...
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 and Food
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...
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...
Insight
72 per cent back cut or freeze in beer duty
Calls for more action to tackle Britain’s high rates of beer duty are popular with the general public, according to a poll from YouGov for the BBPA, – 72 per cent support either a cut or freeze in beer duty to support pubs, with just 18 per cent supporting a tax rise...
Enterprise works with Annabel Smith to maximise cask beer sales
Beer sommelier Annabel Smith is to provide expert advice to Enterprise Inns’ publicans as part of the company’s ongoing commitment to providing support and training across all key elements of running a pub. As part of her work with the industry-wide campaign There’s a...
BeerX 2016 Preview
SIBA BeerX 2016, the leading annual showcase for independent brewers, will be held at the iceSheffield arena in Sheffield from March 16-19. The March craft beer ‘fest’ will showcase more than 250 beers. The BeerX festival is organised annually by the Society’s...
Brakspear brings back mild
Henley brewer and pub operator Brakspear is brewing Brakspear Mild at its Bell Street Brewery to the original recipe for the beer, which was last brewed in 1996 at the New Street Brakspear brewery in the town. Brakspear Mild, a 3% ABV beer, is available exclusively to...
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...
Cask Reports
Everards awarded SALSA plus Beer
Based just south of Leicester, Everards Brewery Ltd is an independent family-owned business widely renowned for its flagship brand and award winning, Tiger Best Bitter. Brewing since 1849, the Company, under fifth generation chairman Richard Everard, firmly believes...
New alcohol guidelines show increased risk of cancer
New guidelines for alcohol consumption, produced by the UK Chief Medical Officers, warn that drinking any level of alcohol increases the risk of a range of cancers. This is supported by a new review from the Committee on Carcinogenicity (CoC) on alcohol and cancer...
Cyclops reaches key milestones
Cyclops Beer has accredited 100 keg and canned beers, as well as over 2,000 cask and bottled beers from 400 breweries around the UK. The number of accredited breweries has increased by 25% in the last 12 months. The accreditation scheme was originally set up for cask...
Moorhouse brewery reveals new beers for 2016
Moorhouse’s has unveiled a raft of adventurous seasonal brews for roll out throughout 2016. The brewery team has explored a range of malt and hop varieties to support publicans with a creative, but dependable, guest range alongside a six strong core portfolio. It...
MPs unite to cheer Maris Otter Barley
Malt from the 50th anniversary Maris Otter barley harvest is on the market and will be available to brewers for the production of craft beers for the next ten months or so. To celebrate Maris Otter’s extraordinary half century, two MPs put aside party differences to...
Wheat Beer Challenge launched
Following its successful debut in 2015, Imbibe Live’s beer competition will return in June 2016 with a Wheat Beer Challenge for the brewers of Britain. Imbibe Live’s beer ambassador, Mark Dorber, founder of Boudica Inns, is inviting brewers large and small to enter...
