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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...
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%...
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...
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...
Beer and Food matching – a short video
There are no hard and fast rules when it comes to beer and food matching, but it helps to have a few guidelines. Beer...
Tribute goes Up North
The taste of Cornwall is clearly going down well in the north of England, with growing demand from pub landlords...
News
Small Batch Brewery will serve up innovative brews for St Austell
St Austell Brewery has established a new Small Batch Brewery to create its latest collection of innovative beers. Famous for its award-winning cask and bottled ales, the company is set to offer a range of new and exciting brews as it continues to deliver more choice...
Cask continues to shine
The latest figures from the BBPA show that cask ale sales are continuing to grow. Sales figures recently released to include September 2015, show sales of cask up by 1% in September compared to September 2014. Surprisingly most of the increase is accounted for by good...
BBPA announces big bounce in beer sales in Q3
UK beer sales rebounded strongly in quarter three, with a 3.9 per cent improvement on the same quarter in 2014, according to the latest figures from the British Beer & Pub Association’s quarterly Beer Barometer, published today. Boosted by retailers stocking up in...
New name and new look for champion Scottish brewery
Orkney’s award winning Highland Brewing Company has been reborn as ‘Swannay Brewery’ with a striking new look as it is gears up for growth. The roll out is key to the Swannay based brewer’s ambitious plans – backed by Highland and Islands Enterprise - to treble...
Industry-leading training now available for hospitality businesses across the South West
The award-winning St Austell Brewery is expanding its industry-leading staff training to benefit other hospitality businesses across the South West. A refurbished training and development centre called Academy 1851 has opened at St Austell Brewery’s base in Cornwall...
Cask Ale Week 2015 round up
According to the Cask Report, four new breweries are opening every week and cask ale sales are still increasing. The flip side, however, is that 29 pubs are closing every week which means the level of competition between pubs and other hospitality venues is...
Ale Trail
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...
Small Batch Brewery will serve up innovative brews for St Austell
St Austell Brewery has established a new Small Batch Brewery to create its latest collection of innovative beers. Famous for its award-winning cask and bottled ales, the company is set to offer a range of new and exciting brews as it continues to deliver more choice...
Cask continues to shine
The latest figures from the BBPA show that cask ale sales are continuing to grow. Sales figures recently released to include September 2015, show sales of cask up by 1% in September compared to September 2014. Surprisingly most of the increase is accounted for by good...
BBPA announces big bounce in beer sales in Q3
UK beer sales rebounded strongly in quarter three, with a 3.9 per cent improvement on the same quarter in 2014, according to the latest figures from the British Beer & Pub Association’s quarterly Beer Barometer, published today. Boosted by retailers stocking up in...
Cask Ale
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...
Wild hop takes top prize in Hop Awards
A wild hop variety discovered a decade ago in a Sussex hedgerow has been named overall winner of the British Hop Awards 2015, announced by the Institute of Brewing & Distilling (IBD). The ‘Sussex’ hop, from A H Hoad and Son, was found growing wild in 2005 in Gate...
Trade bodies urge MPs to back Beer Duty cut and sign Early Day Motion 919
The chief executives of the campaign coalition calling for a cut in beer duty this year (CAMRA, SIBA, and the BBPA), have written jointly to Members of Parliament this week, urging them to support a new Parliamentary motion calling for a one penny cut in beer duty in...
SIBA announces the 20 brewery bars selected for BeerX 2016
SIBA has today announced the 20 breweries from across the UK which will feature at their National trade show and beer festival next year. BeerX, which takes place from the 16th to the 19th of March 2016 in Sheffield, has gone from strength to strength in recent years...
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...
Beer and Food
SIBA’s New ‘Independent Beer Awards 2016’ launched
The South West will be the first to host SIBA’s new-look beer awards taking place in 2016, with the region’s best beers judged this Thursday at the ‘SIBA South West Independent Beer Awards 2016'. The awards, formerly known as the ‘SIBA South West Beer Competition’ has...
New logo for SIBA
SIBA has officially launched its new look logo following a re-brand designed to reflect the changing face of British brewing. The new logo was unveiled at BeerX earlier in March, designed to reflect the direction of the association’s strategic plan and the exciting...
Woodforde’s Brewery sold
Woodforde’s Ltd, the award-winning Norfolk-based brewery, has announced that it has been purchased by a private consortium of investors. The consortium is led by James Hughes, formerly of drinks business Diageo, and includes Nick Dolan from beer specialists Real Ale...
BeerX round up
40% increase in BeerX trade attendees More than 20% increase in BeerX exhibitors SIBA launches new research at BeerX that highlights new hospitality markets for independent craft brewers SIBA to review the use of Cyclops Beer tasting notes as part of their...
CAMRA considers its future
After 45 years of being one of the largest single-issue consumer groups in the world, the Campaign for Real Ale (CAMRA) could be coming to an end. The organisation is embarking on a consultation of as many as possible of its nearly 180,000 members to ask them who and...
Exclusive brew for Ember Inns
Ember Inns is investing in cask ale by launching Ember Inns Pale Ale in collaboration with Black Sheep Brewery. This new beer will be served across Embers' 147 UK pubs. Cask Marque-accredited Ember Inns demonstrates its commitment to cask. Up to 10 cask ales,...
Insight
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...
Wild hop takes top prize in Hop Awards
A wild hop variety discovered a decade ago in a Sussex hedgerow has been named overall winner of the British Hop Awards 2015, announced by the Institute of Brewing & Distilling (IBD). The ‘Sussex’ hop, from A H Hoad and Son, was found growing wild in 2005 in Gate...
Trade bodies urge MPs to back Beer Duty cut and sign Early Day Motion 919
The chief executives of the campaign coalition calling for a cut in beer duty this year (CAMRA, SIBA, and the BBPA), have written jointly to Members of Parliament this week, urging them to support a new Parliamentary motion calling for a one penny cut in beer duty in...
SIBA announces the 20 brewery bars selected for BeerX 2016
SIBA has today announced the 20 breweries from across the UK which will feature at their National trade show and beer festival next year. BeerX, which takes place from the 16th to the 19th of March 2016 in Sheffield, has gone from strength to strength in recent years...
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...
Cask Reports
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...
Small Batch Brewery will serve up innovative brews for St Austell
St Austell Brewery has established a new Small Batch Brewery to create its latest collection of innovative beers. Famous for its award-winning cask and bottled ales, the company is set to offer a range of new and exciting brews as it continues to deliver more choice...
Cask continues to shine
The latest figures from the BBPA show that cask ale sales are continuing to grow. Sales figures recently released to include September 2015, show sales of cask up by 1% in September compared to September 2014. Surprisingly most of the increase is accounted for by good...
BBPA announces big bounce in beer sales in Q3
UK beer sales rebounded strongly in quarter three, with a 3.9 per cent improvement on the same quarter in 2014, according to the latest figures from the British Beer & Pub Association’s quarterly Beer Barometer, published today. Boosted by retailers stocking up in...
New name and new look for champion Scottish brewery
Orkney’s award winning Highland Brewing Company has been reborn as ‘Swannay Brewery’ with a striking new look as it is gears up for growth. The roll out is key to the Swannay based brewer’s ambitious plans – backed by Highland and Islands Enterprise - to treble...