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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...
Carlsberg UK Unveils 2015/16 Consumer Insights Report
The second annual Carlsberg UK Consumer Insights Report explores the current trends and consumer buying behaviours...
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...
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...
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...
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....
News
BBPA launches new website to step up beer duty campaign
The campaign to secure a third, historic cut in beer duty moved up another gear today, with the launch of a new website from the BBPA, where supporters can email their MP asking then to back the campaign. The website, www.beerandpubjobs.co.uk, provides a huge range of...
The odd truth about “choice”
One sunny Saturday morning in 1999, two American psychologists opened a pop-up in a large grocery store in Menlo Park, California, offering free tastings across a range of 24 flavours of jam. The following Saturday they ran the same pop-up, but this time with just six...
Cask Ale Week 2015
This year’s Cask Ale Week runs Thursday 24th September to Sunday 4th October, and theme is “Celebrating Britain’s National Drink”. The Cask Seminar to launch the 2015 Cask Report is on Wednesday 23rd September. Cask Ale Week provides the perfect platform to: Drive...
Campaign to urge Chancellor to cut beer duty strengthened by new report
There is growing evidence of the compelling case for a third, historic cut in beer duty in the Budget, as a new report shows that that an astonishing 870,000 jobs depend on British beer and pubs – and almost half (44 per cent) are younger workers under 25. The new...
Sales of cask ale increasing each year
Cask ale continues to grow and to increase its share of the on-trade beer market according to recently-released figures for 2014. Total sales of standard and premium cask ale were 2,204,000 barrels in 2012, 2,223,000 in 2013 and 2,248,000 in 2014. What appears really...
Wetherspoon’s Spring Festival focuses on British hops
Wetherspoon pubs across the UK will be serving ten real ales from across the world alongside a selection of beers from the UK during a 17 day festival (Friday March 13 to Sunday March 29 inclusive). Each of the beers is being brewed using only British-grown hop...
Ale Trail
CAMRA National Pub of the Year 2014
The Salutation Inn, a rural freehouse in the small village of Ham, Gloucestershire, has today won CAMRA's National Pub of the Year Award - a feat made even more impressive given that this is the first pub the landlord has ever run. Former business analyst Peter Tiley...
Pub15
Pub15 is a new show for pub owners, managers and industry figures running on 18th and 19th February and its aim is to help you to: Pick up hundreds of new ideas from 150 unique exhibitors Tap into the latest trends and products Enjoy inspiring, free-to-attend...
CAMRA’s Champion Winter Beer of Britain 2015
Elland 1872 Porter has today been crowned CAMRA’s Supreme Champion Winter Beer of Britain 2015 by a panel of judges at the National Winter Ales Festival in Derby. The winning 6.5% abv beer is described in CAMRA’s 2015 Good Beer Guide as a “creamy, full-flavoured...
BBPA launches new website to step up beer duty campaign
The campaign to secure a third, historic cut in beer duty moved up another gear today, with the launch of a new website from the BBPA, where supporters can email their MP asking then to back the campaign. The website, www.beerandpubjobs.co.uk, provides a huge range of...
The odd truth about “choice”
One sunny Saturday morning in 1999, two American psychologists opened a pop-up in a large grocery store in Menlo Park, California, offering free tastings across a range of 24 flavours of jam. The following Saturday they ran the same pop-up, but this time with just six...
Cask Ale Week 2015
This year’s Cask Ale Week runs Thursday 24th September to Sunday 4th October, and theme is “Celebrating Britain’s National Drink”. The Cask Seminar to launch the 2015 Cask Report is on Wednesday 23rd September. Cask Ale Week provides the perfect platform to: Drive...
Cask Ale
Bob Mortimer is the new Bombardier
Brewer Charles Wells has announced that legendary comedy performer Bob Mortimer will star in a new advertising campaign for its flagship beer, Bombardier, which launches later this month. Charles Wells Director of Brands Phil Toms explained “Bob Mortimer enters the...
CAMRA announces the UK’s 200 best local pubs
CAMRA has announced their list of 200 Local Pubs of the Year to help launch April’s Community Pubs Month. CAMRA volunteers across the UK judge the pubs in their area to find their Branch’s Pub of the Year - looking at decor, value for money, customer service, and of...
Cask Beer Uncovered proving a hit
The new, free e-learning course, Cask Beer Uncovered is proving popular with many companies involved in selling cask beer and is being widely adopted. The course has been produced by Cask Matters and developed by CPL Training. According to Greg Beresford, Recruitment...
Adnams beer sales up 10%
Adnams has today published its Report & Accounts for the 12 months to 31 December 2014, showing sales of £66.0m and a £3.8m operating profit. Adnams reported a growth in beer volumes approaching 10%. Commenting on the performance in 2014, Jonathan Adnams OBE,...
Greene King Leisure Tracker February 2015
Each month Greene King publishes its Leisure Spend Tracker based on an omnibus questionnaire in order to provide greater insights into consumer discretionary spending. The Tracker (which you can download) focuses on spending patterns across leisure sectors such as...
SIBA launches its first strategic plan
SIBA has just launched a strategic plan setting out its aims for the next three years called Delivering the Future of British Beer. The plan, the organisation’s first, has been developed to ensure continued success for the independent brewing sector, which has thrived...
Beer and Food
‘Beer Drinker of the Year’ is The Sun Newspaper!
The Sun Newspaper has been named the “Beer Drinker of the Year” by All-Party Parliamentary Beer Group Chairman, Andrew Griffiths, MP for Burton on Trent. The presentation was made at the Beer Group’s Annual Awards Dinner on the 8th July that attracted over 200 MPs,...
Great British Beer Festival
The UK’s biggest beer festival is back again, and this year the Great British Beer Festival has a ‘discovery’ theme. It takes place at Olympia in London from 11th-15th August. The Great British Beer Festival, which takes place annually and has been held in Olympia...
New guide to real ale in the capital
A new edition of ‘London’s Best Beer Pubs & Bars’ has been published, following a huge growth in the number of microbreweries and a renewed interest in real ale in the capital. From railway arches, to the back of pizza restaurants, it seems that London has got...
Champion Beer of Scotland 2015
The Campaign for Real Ale has announced that Black Gold, a traditional Scottish stout by Cairngorm Brewery from Aviemore, has won the CAMRA Champion Beer of Scotland. The aptly named Black Gold was chosen by a blind tasting panel at CAMRA's flagship event in Scotland,...
SIBA sets out strategy to build opportunity for small brewers from MRO legislation
The Society of Independent Brewers (SIBA) has set out its strategy in response to the market rent only aspects of the Small Business, Enterprise and Employment Act 2015. As part of its vision to ‘deliver the future of British beer’ SIBA, which represents more than 800...
British Brewers’ confidence is at a high
Three beer duty cuts and a new spirit of entrepreneurship has led to more confidence in Britain’s brewing industry than at any time in the past 25 years; this was the message from BBPA Chairman, Jonathan Neame, when he addressed a seminar at the Milan Expo on ‘Working...
Insight
CAMRA announces the UK’s 200 best local pubs
CAMRA has announced their list of 200 Local Pubs of the Year to help launch April’s Community Pubs Month. CAMRA volunteers across the UK judge the pubs in their area to find their Branch’s Pub of the Year - looking at decor, value for money, customer service, and of...
Cask Beer Uncovered proving a hit
The new, free e-learning course, Cask Beer Uncovered is proving popular with many companies involved in selling cask beer and is being widely adopted. The course has been produced by Cask Matters and developed by CPL Training. According to Greg Beresford, Recruitment...
Adnams beer sales up 10%
Adnams has today published its Report & Accounts for the 12 months to 31 December 2014, showing sales of £66.0m and a £3.8m operating profit. Adnams reported a growth in beer volumes approaching 10%. Commenting on the performance in 2014, Jonathan Adnams OBE,...
Greene King Leisure Tracker February 2015
Each month Greene King publishes its Leisure Spend Tracker based on an omnibus questionnaire in order to provide greater insights into consumer discretionary spending. The Tracker (which you can download) focuses on spending patterns across leisure sectors such as...
SIBA launches its first strategic plan
SIBA has just launched a strategic plan setting out its aims for the next three years called Delivering the Future of British Beer. The plan, the organisation’s first, has been developed to ensure continued success for the independent brewing sector, which has thrived...
SIBA Cask Champion 2015
SIBA has unveiled its Supreme Champion and medal winners in its National Beer Competition 2015, announced at its BeerX celebration of British beer in Sheffield. Top honours went to Brass Castle Brewery of Malton, Yorkshire for Burnout in the National Cask Beer...
Cask Reports
Pub15
Pub15 is a new show for pub owners, managers and industry figures running on 18th and 19th February and its aim is to help you to: Pick up hundreds of new ideas from 150 unique exhibitors Tap into the latest trends and products Enjoy inspiring, free-to-attend...
CAMRA’s Champion Winter Beer of Britain 2015
Elland 1872 Porter has today been crowned CAMRA’s Supreme Champion Winter Beer of Britain 2015 by a panel of judges at the National Winter Ales Festival in Derby. The winning 6.5% abv beer is described in CAMRA’s 2015 Good Beer Guide as a “creamy, full-flavoured...
BBPA launches new website to step up beer duty campaign
The campaign to secure a third, historic cut in beer duty moved up another gear today, with the launch of a new website from the BBPA, where supporters can email their MP asking then to back the campaign. The website, www.beerandpubjobs.co.uk, provides a huge range of...
The odd truth about “choice”
One sunny Saturday morning in 1999, two American psychologists opened a pop-up in a large grocery store in Menlo Park, California, offering free tastings across a range of 24 flavours of jam. The following Saturday they ran the same pop-up, but this time with just six...
Cask Ale Week 2015
This year’s Cask Ale Week runs Thursday 24th September to Sunday 4th October, and theme is “Celebrating Britain’s National Drink”. The Cask Seminar to launch the 2015 Cask Report is on Wednesday 23rd September. Cask Ale Week provides the perfect platform to: Drive...
Campaign to urge Chancellor to cut beer duty strengthened by new report
There is growing evidence of the compelling case for a third, historic cut in beer duty in the Budget, as a new report shows that that an astonishing 870,000 jobs depend on British beer and pubs – and almost half (44 per cent) are younger workers under 25. The new...