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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...

Ale Trail

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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