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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...
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...
SIBA Cask Champion 2016
Scottish and Welsh breweries have beaten England in SIBA’s National Beer Awards competition. Loch Lomond Brewery’s...
Drinkers’ quest for beer knowledge
A new study looking at British drinking habits has today thrown up some surprising results, with a clear trend...
Beer Quality Report 2016
Welcome to the first Beer Quality Report – the definitive assessment of draught beer quality in the on-trade....
Beer Duty Frozen
BBPA Commenting on the freeze in beer duty and business rates support for pubs announced in today’s Budget, BBPA Chief...
News
Butcombe Flavour Panel Launched
The search is on across North Somerset and Bristol for the region's most sensitive taste palates to join an elite group of expert beer tasters. The initiative, launched by Butcombe Brewery, aims to set up the Butcombe Flavour Panel, which will undertake a...
Beer sales rising
Total British beer sales continue to grow year on year, after a decade of decline Market still fragile as Q1 on-trade sales sales 0.8 per cent lower than Q1 2014 Continued support for beer and pubs is vital, says BBPA’s Brigid Simmonds Beer sales are continuing to...
Rufus Hound and real ale
Rufus Hound talks real ale in this informative video. Find out about the history of real ale, different beer styles and why ale is booming in this short video for Co-operative Food.
Update on There’s a Beer for That
It's been six months since Britain's Beer Alliance launched the widely-anticipated There's A Beer For That and the campaign shows no signs of slowing in momentum. June will see the next phase of the campaign rolling out with a series of new marketing initiatives,...
Going for Gold
Nicholson's, the pub chain owned by Mitchells & Butlers, has revealed that golden and pale ales are increasingly popular with their customers. The latest research from Nicolson's which serves around 4.7 million pints of cask ale in its 80 pubs, shows that sales of...
Latest trends in pub going
Foodservice industry figures from global information provider The NPD Group show that pubs are increasingly more a place for eating and less a venue for ‘a quick pint’. Half of the British population now visits a pub at least once per month. This is a higher visitor...
Ale Trail
BBPA New Chairman
The BBPA has announced that David Forde, Managing Director of Heineken UK, will be proposed as the next BBPA Chairman at its AGM in December as the successor to Jonathan Neame, Chief Executive of Shepherd Neame. Jonathan has been Chairman of the British Beer & Pub...
Operators rolling out Cask Beer Uncovered
Cask Beer Uncovered, the e-learning programme that builds bar staff’s knowledge of cask beer, is already being actively promoted by 18 pub and bar operators including Stonegate Pub Company, who are rolling the programme out to around 500 of their top cask beer pubs....
Beer Sommelier of the Year Announced
The Beer Academy has awarded Rod Jones of Meantime Brewing Company its Beer Sommelier of the Year title. Rod, who began his career with Meantime as a brewer, now undertakes beer education for both colleagues and customers. He was accredited as a Beer Sommelier in...
Butcombe Flavour Panel Launched
The search is on across North Somerset and Bristol for the region's most sensitive taste palates to join an elite group of expert beer tasters. The initiative, launched by Butcombe Brewery, aims to set up the Butcombe Flavour Panel, which will undertake a...
Beer sales rising
Total British beer sales continue to grow year on year, after a decade of decline Market still fragile as Q1 on-trade sales sales 0.8 per cent lower than Q1 2014 Continued support for beer and pubs is vital, says BBPA’s Brigid Simmonds Beer sales are continuing to...
Rufus Hound and real ale
Rufus Hound talks real ale in this informative video. Find out about the history of real ale, different beer styles and why ale is booming in this short video for Co-operative Food.
Cask Ale
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...
Beer and Food
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...
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...
Insight
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...
‘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...
Cask Reports
Operators rolling out Cask Beer Uncovered
Cask Beer Uncovered, the e-learning programme that builds bar staff’s knowledge of cask beer, is already being actively promoted by 18 pub and bar operators including Stonegate Pub Company, who are rolling the programme out to around 500 of their top cask beer pubs....
Beer Sommelier of the Year Announced
The Beer Academy has awarded Rod Jones of Meantime Brewing Company its Beer Sommelier of the Year title. Rod, who began his career with Meantime as a brewer, now undertakes beer education for both colleagues and customers. He was accredited as a Beer Sommelier in...
Butcombe Flavour Panel Launched
The search is on across North Somerset and Bristol for the region's most sensitive taste palates to join an elite group of expert beer tasters. The initiative, launched by Butcombe Brewery, aims to set up the Butcombe Flavour Panel, which will undertake a...
Beer sales rising
Total British beer sales continue to grow year on year, after a decade of decline Market still fragile as Q1 on-trade sales sales 0.8 per cent lower than Q1 2014 Continued support for beer and pubs is vital, says BBPA’s Brigid Simmonds Beer sales are continuing to...
Rufus Hound and real ale
Rufus Hound talks real ale in this informative video. Find out about the history of real ale, different beer styles and why ale is booming in this short video for Co-operative Food.
Update on There’s a Beer for That
It's been six months since Britain's Beer Alliance launched the widely-anticipated There's A Beer For That and the campaign shows no signs of slowing in momentum. June will see the next phase of the campaign rolling out with a series of new marketing initiatives,...