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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
News
Get ready for Cask Ale Week
Cask Report research shows that 55% of those who drink real ale drink it every week. And cask ale drinkers visit pubs more often and spend more money while they’re there. “If nothing else persuades you to get involved with Cask Ale Week, these facts most certainly...
Britain boasts 11,000 beers
New research released today by organisers of the Great British Beer Festival shows there are now more different real ales being brewed in the UK than ever before. With more breweries per head than anywhere else on earth, and an average of eight core beers now being...
Halves overtaking pints in popularity
New research released today to coincide with the Great British Beer Festival in London shows the half pint glass is now the most popular way to drink a new beer. The survey of 2,000 people, commissioned by the Campaign for Real Ale (CAMRA) and undertaken by...
Champion Beer of Britain 2015
After over a year of local tasting panels and regional heats leading up to the finals CAMRA has announced that today Tiny Rebel’s Cwtch has been crowned the Best Beer in Britain at the Great British Beer Festival, Olympia, London. The Newport brewed real ale was named...
‘Knowledgeable, motivated bar staff’ essential to tap into UK beer boom
As brewers and beer drinkers converge at Olympia for the Great British Beer Festival, the Cask Matters group is urging everyone involved in serving cask beer in pubs and bars to sign up for its Cask Beer Uncovered e-learning programme. Some 60,000 drinkers are...
Robinsons investing for continued success
Robinsons Brewery, one of the leading independent brewers and pub operators in the North West with over 300 pubs, has reported annual results confirming its highest beer production in 15 years for the year to 31 December 2014, chiefly driven by Trooper and Dizzy...
Ale Trail
Microbreweries keep growing
The number of new microbreweries rose by almost a quarter last year, highlighting the increasing popularity of craft beer. Britain now has 361 new independent brewers in 2014/15 tax year, up from 291 in 2013/2014, research from the accounting firm UHY Hacker Young has...
Latest beer sales for Q2 2015
An early Easter, and the impact of the World Cup 2014, resulted in disappointing beer sales in the second quarter of 2015, according to the latest figures from the British Beer & Pub Association’s Quarterly Beer Barometer. Total sales were 5.6 per cent lower in Q2...
Cask Ale Week Activity
Punch Taverns – Free pint promotion with national press Punch Taverns are once again supporting Cask Ale Week – 24th Sept to 4th October 2015 with a Free Pint promotion giving UK drinkers the chance to enjoy a Free Pint of cask ale in nominated Punch Tavern pubs. The...
Get ready for Cask Ale Week
Cask Report research shows that 55% of those who drink real ale drink it every week. And cask ale drinkers visit pubs more often and spend more money while they’re there. “If nothing else persuades you to get involved with Cask Ale Week, these facts most certainly...
Britain boasts 11,000 beers
New research released today by organisers of the Great British Beer Festival shows there are now more different real ales being brewed in the UK than ever before. With more breweries per head than anywhere else on earth, and an average of eight core beers now being...
Halves overtaking pints in popularity
New research released today to coincide with the Great British Beer Festival in London shows the half pint glass is now the most popular way to drink a new beer. The survey of 2,000 people, commissioned by the Campaign for Real Ale (CAMRA) and undertaken by...
Cask Ale
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10,000 Pubs with Cask Marque Quality Award
Each month the number of pubs achieving the Cask Marque quality award creeps closer to the magic number of 10,000. This reflects well on the licensees and managers who are using best practice in the cellar, and also brewers and retailers investing in training and...
St Austell Brewery celebrates successful year
Employees, partners and friends joined the team at leading South West brewer St Austell Brewery for a huge beach party to celebrate the success of the company’s own brand beers over the past 18 months. In March this year the Brewery reached the landmark figure of...
Cask Ale Week – Robinsons run beer festivals for the first time
In celebration of Cask Ale Week, Robinsons Brewery have announced their first ever beer festivals, which will take place at 15 pubs across the North West and Cumbria. The events, which will include beers from Robinsons and a host of other breweries including Fullers,...
“Brew with your MP”
Andrew Griffiths MP, Chairman of the All-Party Parliamentary Beer Group, visited the Molson Coors Brewery in his Burton Constituency to launch the Beer Group’s new “Brew with your MP” scheme. This new Beer Group initiative encourages MPs to visit their local brewery...
Cask Ale Week 2015
Cask Ale Week is in full swing. All over the country breweries and pubs are running events and promotions to celebrate Britain’s national drink. From beer festivals and tutored tastings to new brews and free pint offers, there is a wide array of activities. This year...
Beer and Food
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...
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...
Insight
Cask Marque Newsletter
Find out the latest news from Cask Marque by downloading the newsletter
St Austell Brewery celebrates successful year
Employees, partners and friends joined the team at leading South West brewer St Austell Brewery for a huge beach party to celebrate the success of the company’s own brand beers over the past 18 months. In March this year the Brewery reached the landmark figure of...
Cask Ale Week – Robinsons run beer festivals for the first time
In celebration of Cask Ale Week, Robinsons Brewery have announced their first ever beer festivals, which will take place at 15 pubs across the North West and Cumbria. The events, which will include beers from Robinsons and a host of other breweries including Fullers,...
“Brew with your MP”
Andrew Griffiths MP, Chairman of the All-Party Parliamentary Beer Group, visited the Molson Coors Brewery in his Burton Constituency to launch the Beer Group’s new “Brew with your MP” scheme. This new Beer Group initiative encourages MPs to visit their local brewery...
Cask Ale Week 2015
Cask Ale Week is in full swing. All over the country breweries and pubs are running events and promotions to celebrate Britain’s national drink. From beer festivals and tutored tastings to new brews and free pint offers, there is a wide array of activities. This year...
Cask Drinkers More Valuable To Pubs Than Any Other Drinkers
Brewers of cask beer are forever telling pub companies and licensees how important real ale is to the pub. Now there is research to back up the claims. The 2015 Cask Report (download it here) by renowned beer writer and industry commentator Pete Brown, shows that cask...
Cask Reports
Latest beer sales for Q2 2015
An early Easter, and the impact of the World Cup 2014, resulted in disappointing beer sales in the second quarter of 2015, according to the latest figures from the British Beer & Pub Association’s Quarterly Beer Barometer. Total sales were 5.6 per cent lower in Q2...
Cask Ale Week Activity
Punch Taverns – Free pint promotion with national press Punch Taverns are once again supporting Cask Ale Week – 24th Sept to 4th October 2015 with a Free Pint promotion giving UK drinkers the chance to enjoy a Free Pint of cask ale in nominated Punch Tavern pubs. The...
Get ready for Cask Ale Week
Cask Report research shows that 55% of those who drink real ale drink it every week. And cask ale drinkers visit pubs more often and spend more money while they’re there. “If nothing else persuades you to get involved with Cask Ale Week, these facts most certainly...
Britain boasts 11,000 beers
New research released today by organisers of the Great British Beer Festival shows there are now more different real ales being brewed in the UK than ever before. With more breweries per head than anywhere else on earth, and an average of eight core beers now being...
Halves overtaking pints in popularity
New research released today to coincide with the Great British Beer Festival in London shows the half pint glass is now the most popular way to drink a new beer. The survey of 2,000 people, commissioned by the Campaign for Real Ale (CAMRA) and undertaken by...
Champion Beer of Britain 2015
After over a year of local tasting panels and regional heats leading up to the finals CAMRA has announced that today Tiny Rebel’s Cwtch has been crowned the Best Beer in Britain at the Great British Beer Festival, Olympia, London. The Newport brewed real ale was named...