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Champion beer of Scotland crowned
The Campaign for Real Ale (CAMRA) is proud to announce that 2016 Champion Beer of Scotland is Raj IPA from the...
Butcombe Brewery Lead The Way With Grain to Glass Salsa Accreditation
Butcombe Brewery has today been announced as the first brewery to be accredited with Grain to Glass quality assurance...
St Austell buys Bath Ales
Cornwall-based St Austell Brewery Company Limited has this morning announced the acquisition of fellow West Country...
Greene King Results
The following is taken from Greene King's press release for their preliminary results for the 52 weeks to 01 May 2016:...
New author for the Cask Report
This year, the Cask Beer Report celebrates its 10th anniversary. The much heralded publication has a new author and a...
1st Beer Club Live to be held at Robinsons
Robinsons Brewery have partnered with There’s A Beer For That to bring the first ‘Beer Club Live’ event to their...
News
Beer drinking becoming more popular with women
Over 9.2 million women (40%) over the age of 25 in the UK have enjoyed beer in the last month alone * In the last month beer was a more popular choice among UK women (40%) than Prosecco (36%), cocktails (28%) or gin (19%)** AB InBev has released insights from research...
BBPA 2015 Awards
Awards for Hogs Back Brewery, The Co-op, Timothy Taylor’s Charles Dent, and Andrew Griffiths MP, have been revealed at the British Beer & Pub Association’s Annual Dinner in London, showcasing some truly great innovations and achievements at the BBPA’s annual...
AB InBev set to take over SABMiller
The Boards of AB InBev and SABMiller have announced today that they have "reached agreement in principle" on the key terms of a takeover of SABMiller. SABMiller shareholders would be entitled to receive £44.00 per share. SABMiller has indicated that it will recommend...
Robinsons shows that top-quality pubs sell more beer
Robinsons pubs across the North West, Cumbria and North Wales have increased standards by 9% in just over 3 years according to data from the brewery’s ‘Perfect Pub’ mystery visitor programme. The programme, which is monitored by Robinsons’ third party partner Mystery...
Cask Beer Uncovered – find out what users are saying
"I have noticed that staff members show much more enthusiasm when selling cask ale to customers, as a result our sales of the product have increased." "It was surprising how many of our younger staff who had never tried cask ale before completing the course were keen...
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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...
Beer drinking becoming more popular with women
Over 9.2 million women (40%) over the age of 25 in the UK have enjoyed beer in the last month alone * In the last month beer was a more popular choice among UK women (40%) than Prosecco (36%), cocktails (28%) or gin (19%)** AB InBev has released insights from research...
BBPA 2015 Awards
Awards for Hogs Back Brewery, The Co-op, Timothy Taylor’s Charles Dent, and Andrew Griffiths MP, have been revealed at the British Beer & Pub Association’s Annual Dinner in London, showcasing some truly great innovations and achievements at the BBPA’s annual...
AB InBev set to take over SABMiller
The Boards of AB InBev and SABMiller have announced today that they have "reached agreement in principle" on the key terms of a takeover of SABMiller. SABMiller shareholders would be entitled to receive £44.00 per share. SABMiller has indicated that it will recommend...
Cask Ale
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...
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...
Beer and Food
CAMRA National Club of the Year 2016
CAMRA has today announced the winner of its National Club of the Year Competition as the Albatross RAFA Club in Bexhill-on-Sea which saw off competition from more than 28,000 clubs nationwide. Club Mirror magazine and CAMRA joined forces three years ago in the quest...
Carlsberg UK launches new Tapsters brochure with more ales than before
Carlsberg UK has launched the 2016 edition of its award-winning Tapster’s Cask Ale Brochure with a fresh new look and an extended portfolio that now includes almost 250 ales. Now available to Carlsberg UK’s on-trade customers, the brochure has been redesigned with a...
New brew from Iron Maiden and Robinsons
Iron Maiden and Robinsons Brewery have announced ‘TROOPER Red ‘N’ Black – a new limited edition beer from their award-winning TROOPER range – which will be available worldwide from September 2016 in cask and bottle. TROOPER Red ‘N’ Black Porter is the third beer in...
St Austell Brewery announces opening time on new Small Batch Beer Club
As St Austell Brewery’s Small Batch Brewery gears up to maximum production, the pubs that will form the core of the newly established Small Batch Beer Club have been announced, giving ale lovers across the South West the chance to catch up on all of their innovative...
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...
Insight
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...
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...
Cask Reports
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...
Beer drinking becoming more popular with women
Over 9.2 million women (40%) over the age of 25 in the UK have enjoyed beer in the last month alone * In the last month beer was a more popular choice among UK women (40%) than Prosecco (36%), cocktails (28%) or gin (19%)** AB InBev has released insights from research...
BBPA 2015 Awards
Awards for Hogs Back Brewery, The Co-op, Timothy Taylor’s Charles Dent, and Andrew Griffiths MP, have been revealed at the British Beer & Pub Association’s Annual Dinner in London, showcasing some truly great innovations and achievements at the BBPA’s annual...
AB InBev set to take over SABMiller
The Boards of AB InBev and SABMiller have announced today that they have "reached agreement in principle" on the key terms of a takeover of SABMiller. SABMiller shareholders would be entitled to receive £44.00 per share. SABMiller has indicated that it will recommend...
Robinsons shows that top-quality pubs sell more beer
Robinsons pubs across the North West, Cumbria and North Wales have increased standards by 9% in just over 3 years according to data from the brewery’s ‘Perfect Pub’ mystery visitor programme. The programme, which is monitored by Robinsons’ third party partner Mystery...