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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...
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...
Independent Brewers take back Craft Beer
SIBA has today launched an initiative to promote ‘Assured Independent British Craft Breweries’ in an effort to provide...
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...
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...
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...
News
IFBB reveals large increase in brewery visits by public
The Independent Family Brewers of Britain, whose members currently operate around 4,200 pubs in the UK, has released the results of its annual members’ survey. The results reveal that while the market remains challenging, tourism represents a key area of growth and is...
Castle Rock Brewery meets the SALSA quality threshold
Castle Rock Brewery has become one of the first real ale producers to be accredited to the nationally recognised SALSA (safe and local supplier approval) standard. With it, the Nottingham-based brewer joins other food producers and processors, monitored by...
Carlsberg UK Unveils 2015/16 Consumer Insights Report
The second annual Carlsberg UK Consumer Insights Report explores the current trends and consumer buying behaviours shaping the UK on-trade and has found that consumers are enjoying a new found confidence, while value-seeking habits developed during the recession,...
CAMRA’s Top Four Pubs announced
The top four best pubs in Britain have been announced by CAMRA. These four supreme regional finalists of CAMRA's Pub of the Year competition will have a chance to win the National Pub of the Year competition, won last year by The Salutation Inn in Gloucestershire. The...
Parliamentary beer and food event celebrates women in the beer industry
Women from the beer and pub industry were celebrated in Westminster last night at a beer and food tasting held by the All-Party Parliamentary Beer Group, women in beer group Dea Latis, and the British Beer & Pub Association (BBPA), sponsored by Ruth Smeeth MP for...
Industry bodies join forces in call for fairer deal for pubs in Autumn Statement
With the Chancellor due to deliver his Autumn Statement on 25th November, key pub industry bodies have written jointly to George Osborne, calling for further action to secure a fairer deal for pubs. The letter, from the BBPA, ALMR, FLVA, BII, SIBA, BFBI, BSDA, and...
Ale Trail
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...
IFBB reveals large increase in brewery visits by public
The Independent Family Brewers of Britain, whose members currently operate around 4,200 pubs in the UK, has released the results of its annual members’ survey. The results reveal that while the market remains challenging, tourism represents a key area of growth and is...
Castle Rock Brewery meets the SALSA quality threshold
Castle Rock Brewery has become one of the first real ale producers to be accredited to the nationally recognised SALSA (safe and local supplier approval) standard. With it, the Nottingham-based brewer joins other food producers and processors, monitored by...
Carlsberg UK Unveils 2015/16 Consumer Insights Report
The second annual Carlsberg UK Consumer Insights Report explores the current trends and consumer buying behaviours shaping the UK on-trade and has found that consumers are enjoying a new found confidence, while value-seeking habits developed during the recession,...
Cask Ale
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...
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...
Beer and Food
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...
‘Raise Your Glass’
The untold story of Scotland’s brewing heritage is currently being portrayed in the exhibition – 'Raise Your Glass' in the Museum of Edinburgh on the Canongate, once the heartland of brewing in Edinburgh during the 19th & 20th centuries. 'The Raise Your Glass'...
Collaborative brew heralds Manchester Beer Week
Manchester Beer Week is launching with news of a new beer being specially created to mark this event. Manchester’s oldest family brewer, JW Lees is set to join forces with one of the city’s most celebrated modern breweries, Cloudwater, to create a groundbreaking new...
Insight
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...
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...
Cask Reports
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...
IFBB reveals large increase in brewery visits by public
The Independent Family Brewers of Britain, whose members currently operate around 4,200 pubs in the UK, has released the results of its annual members’ survey. The results reveal that while the market remains challenging, tourism represents a key area of growth and is...
Castle Rock Brewery meets the SALSA quality threshold
Castle Rock Brewery has become one of the first real ale producers to be accredited to the nationally recognised SALSA (safe and local supplier approval) standard. With it, the Nottingham-based brewer joins other food producers and processors, monitored by...
Carlsberg UK Unveils 2015/16 Consumer Insights Report
The second annual Carlsberg UK Consumer Insights Report explores the current trends and consumer buying behaviours shaping the UK on-trade and has found that consumers are enjoying a new found confidence, while value-seeking habits developed during the recession,...
CAMRA’s Top Four Pubs announced
The top four best pubs in Britain have been announced by CAMRA. These four supreme regional finalists of CAMRA's Pub of the Year competition will have a chance to win the National Pub of the Year competition, won last year by The Salutation Inn in Gloucestershire. The...