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Cask continues to shine
The latest figures from the BBPA show that cask ale sales are continuing to grow. Sales figures recently released to...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
News
2014 British hop awards winners announced
Worcestershire based hop grower S J Adams & Son has been named the overall winner of the British Hop Awards for 2014, as the results of the 71st Institute of Brewing & Distilling’s (IBD) annual competition were announced at an awards ceremony in London on the...
Old Ale revived by Brakspear after 12 year gap
Henley brewer and pub operator Brakspear has brought back Old Ale, one of the favourite beers from the original Brakspear brewery in the town. The ale is now being brewed at the Bell Street Brewery, the microbrewery which opened in 2013. Old Ale was last brewed in...
What to expect at BeerX
The Society of Independent Brewers (SIBA) has unveiled speakers for BeerX, its celebration of British beer taking place in Sheffield this March. Speakers addressing delegates on BeerX Industry Day, Thursday 19 March, are: Bob Pease, chief executive officer of the...
Woodforde’s enhances its summer ale trail
Woodforde's brewery has confirmed that its Ale Trail will return this year and that it will be accompanied by the launch of a new App. The brewery is compiling a trail guide containing details of participating pubs across East Anglia and London. Drink a pint of...
UK drinkers loath to try new alcholic drinks
A new report from research company Canadean has found that eight out of ten consumers who drink alcohol out of their homes rarely or never try new alcoholic drinks. According to Canadean, 77% of out-of-home drinkers rarely or never try new products, with 32% sticking...
Tribute taxis into London
St Austell Brewery has launched a London-based taxi advertising campaign, promoting their flagship beer Tribute Cornish Pale Ale. The full livery advertising campaign will run for 12 months on taxis across Central London. The campaign shows taxi users where they can...
Ale Trail
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...
2014 British hop awards winners announced
Worcestershire based hop grower S J Adams & Son has been named the overall winner of the British Hop Awards for 2014, as the results of the 71st Institute of Brewing & Distilling’s (IBD) annual competition were announced at an awards ceremony in London on the...
Old Ale revived by Brakspear after 12 year gap
Henley brewer and pub operator Brakspear has brought back Old Ale, one of the favourite beers from the original Brakspear brewery in the town. The ale is now being brewed at the Bell Street Brewery, the microbrewery which opened in 2013. Old Ale was last brewed in...
What to expect at BeerX
The Society of Independent Brewers (SIBA) has unveiled speakers for BeerX, its celebration of British beer taking place in Sheffield this March. Speakers addressing delegates on BeerX Industry Day, Thursday 19 March, are: Bob Pease, chief executive officer of the...
Cask Ale
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...
Chancellor cuts beer tax for third time
Brigid Simmonds, Chief Executive of the British Beer & Pub Association has applauded the penny cut in beer duty just announced in the Budget: “The Chancellor really is a ‘Hat Trick Hero’. His third, successive beer tax cut shows he has listened to consumers,...
CAMRA National Club of the Year 2015
CAMRA have today announced the winner of their National Club of the Year Competition as Wortley Men’s Club, South Yorkshire which beat off competition from over 28,000 clubs nationwide. Wortley Men’s Club is described in CAMRA’s Good Beer Guide 2015: ‘In the heart of...
SIBA breweries see 25% growth in sales in last 2 years
Two consecutive cuts in beer duty in the last two Budgets and the end of the Beer Duty Escalator have helped fuel sales growth, boosted employment and encouraged investment in the independent brewing sector as confidence rises according to SIBA's British Beer Report....
TV’s Neil Morrissey returns to the pub trade
Neil Morrissey, star of Men Behaving Badly, has relaunched his newly refurbished pub, The Plume of Feathers in Barlaston, on March 6th. The canal-side pub in Staffordshire which is being leased from Punch Taverns was shut for two months while £400,000 worth of...
SIBA’s Manifesto for Beer
The Society of Independent Brewers (SIBA) is launching its ‘Manifesto for British Beer’ today (9 March), calling on prospective parliamentary candidates (PPCs) to pledge their backing for the thriving local brewing sector and the thousands of jobs it supports. SIBA’s...
Beer and Food
DDS becomes Beerflex
The Society of Independent Brewers’ (SIBA) award winning Direct Delivery Scheme (DDS) is being renamed ‘Beerflex’ to reflect the organisation’s plans to grow the commercial opportunities for its members in a changing beer and pubs market. Launched in 2003, DDS has...
Cask ale continues to grow in 2015
New figures for the first quarter of 2015 obtained by Cask Matters show continued growth for cask ale, particularly premium cask ale. This comes on the back of figures for 2014 which revealed that cask ale was in growth despite the slow down in on-trade beer sales,...
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...
Insight
Chancellor cuts beer tax for third time
Brigid Simmonds, Chief Executive of the British Beer & Pub Association has applauded the penny cut in beer duty just announced in the Budget: “The Chancellor really is a ‘Hat Trick Hero’. His third, successive beer tax cut shows he has listened to consumers,...
CAMRA National Club of the Year 2015
CAMRA have today announced the winner of their National Club of the Year Competition as Wortley Men’s Club, South Yorkshire which beat off competition from over 28,000 clubs nationwide. Wortley Men’s Club is described in CAMRA’s Good Beer Guide 2015: ‘In the heart of...
SIBA breweries see 25% growth in sales in last 2 years
Two consecutive cuts in beer duty in the last two Budgets and the end of the Beer Duty Escalator have helped fuel sales growth, boosted employment and encouraged investment in the independent brewing sector as confidence rises according to SIBA's British Beer Report....
TV’s Neil Morrissey returns to the pub trade
Neil Morrissey, star of Men Behaving Badly, has relaunched his newly refurbished pub, The Plume of Feathers in Barlaston, on March 6th. The canal-side pub in Staffordshire which is being leased from Punch Taverns was shut for two months while £400,000 worth of...
SIBA’s Manifesto for Beer
The Society of Independent Brewers (SIBA) is launching its ‘Manifesto for British Beer’ today (9 March), calling on prospective parliamentary candidates (PPCs) to pledge their backing for the thriving local brewing sector and the thousands of jobs it supports. SIBA’s...
Sheffield Beer Week March 16-22
March 2015 sees the launch of Sheffield Beer Week, the first of its kind for the city. Running from Monday 16th to Sunday 22nd March the week will showcase the very best of Sheffield’s beer scene. With a friendship built on their shared passion for food and drink,...
Cask Reports
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...
2014 British hop awards winners announced
Worcestershire based hop grower S J Adams & Son has been named the overall winner of the British Hop Awards for 2014, as the results of the 71st Institute of Brewing & Distilling’s (IBD) annual competition were announced at an awards ceremony in London on the...
Old Ale revived by Brakspear after 12 year gap
Henley brewer and pub operator Brakspear has brought back Old Ale, one of the favourite beers from the original Brakspear brewery in the town. The ale is now being brewed at the Bell Street Brewery, the microbrewery which opened in 2013. Old Ale was last brewed in...
What to expect at BeerX
The Society of Independent Brewers (SIBA) has unveiled speakers for BeerX, its celebration of British beer taking place in Sheffield this March. Speakers addressing delegates on BeerX Industry Day, Thursday 19 March, are: Bob Pease, chief executive officer of the...
Woodforde’s enhances its summer ale trail
Woodforde's brewery has confirmed that its Ale Trail will return this year and that it will be accompanied by the launch of a new App. The brewery is compiling a trail guide containing details of participating pubs across East Anglia and London. Drink a pint of...