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BBPA 2015 Awards
Awards for Hogs Back Brewery, The Co-op, Timothy Taylor’s Charles Dent, and Andrew Griffiths MP, have been revealed at...
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...
Scores on the Cellar Doors
Our Scores on the Cellar Doors program is designed to help improve standards in pub cellars and recognise excellence....
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...
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...
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News
National Winter Ales Festival – a moveable feast
The National Winter Ales Festival (NWAF) will be held at The Roundhouse in Derby from 11th-14th February and is organised by Gillian Hough. This is the second time Gillian has organised the festival and previously she has organised the Derby Winter Beer Festivals and...
Cask Marque Makes New Appointments
Cask Marque are delighted to announce two important appointments made to the management team. Keith Bott, previous Chairman of SIBA and owner of Titanic Brewery joins us as a non Executive Director. Keith was keen to be involved in an organisation that champions cask...
BBPA urges MPs to support Beer Duty cut
The BBPA’s Brigid Simmonds has written to Members of Parliament this week, urging them to support a Parliamentary motion urging a cut in beer duty in the Budget on 18th March. Early Day Motion 625 has been tabled by campaigning MP Andrew Griffiths, and already has the...
Membership of SUSTAIN increases
Nine new members have formally signed up to the BBPA-operated SUSTAIN waste packaging compliance scheme, marking a great start to 2015. The new members include Britain’s biggest brewer, Molson Coors, and, for the first time, two leading pub companies. Membership is...
St Austell and Dartmoor breweries unite to rebrand Best beers
St Austell Brewery cask ale Dartmoor Best will become Cornish Best as the Cornish independent family brewer hands over the Dartmoor Best brand name to Dartmoor Brewery. The Dartmoor Best brand originally became part of the St Austell range in 1993 when its former...
Beer delivers significant reductions in alcohol units for Public Health Responsibility Deal
Britain's brewers have made a huge contribution in delivering reductions in total UK units of alcohol, under the Government’s ‘billion-unit pledge’, it has been revealed today. A new report on progress released today by the Department of Health shows that the billion...
Ale Trail
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...
National Winter Ales Festival – a moveable feast
The National Winter Ales Festival (NWAF) will be held at The Roundhouse in Derby from 11th-14th February and is organised by Gillian Hough. This is the second time Gillian has organised the festival and previously she has organised the Derby Winter Beer Festivals and...
Cask Marque Makes New Appointments
Cask Marque are delighted to announce two important appointments made to the management team. Keith Bott, previous Chairman of SIBA and owner of Titanic Brewery joins us as a non Executive Director. Keith was keen to be involved in an organisation that champions cask...
BBPA urges MPs to support Beer Duty cut
The BBPA’s Brigid Simmonds has written to Members of Parliament this week, urging them to support a Parliamentary motion urging a cut in beer duty in the Budget on 18th March. Early Day Motion 625 has been tabled by campaigning MP Andrew Griffiths, and already has the...
Cask Ale
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,...
Renowned brewer Stuart Howe moves to Butcombe Brewery
Butcombe Brewery has appointed Stuart Howe as Director of Brewing. Mr Howe is recognised as one of the leading brewers and innovators in the industry and joins Butcombe from Molson-Coors Craft, where he was responsible for beer quality and development at the brewing...
Greene King announces programme to serve better cask ale
Greene King has launched an online training platform, Beer Genius, to give licensees all the tools they need to pour perfect pints and boost beer sales. Created to support the unveiling of a new look for Greene King’s flagship beer, Greene King IPA, the website will...
The Brewer’s Palette: how the choice of raw materials determine beer style and flavour
The Brewer’s Palette: how the choice of raw materials determine beer style and flavour Lecture by Toby Heasman, Head Brewer, Hall & Woodhouse and Richard Westwood, Managing Director, Marston's Beer Company Great brewing is partly science and partly art. ...
CAMRA calls for beer duty cut
CAMRA is calling on the Chancellor to cut beer duty for a historic third time in next month’s Budget, as a report published today estimates 1,047 additional pubs would have closed if the Government had not scrapped the beer duty escalator and cut beer duty in 2013 and...
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...
Beer and Food
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...
Cask Beer Uncovered – the videos
Cask Beer Uncovered was launched in March and is free of charge to all pubs and their staff. Developed by the Cask Matters partnership, the e-learning programme is designed to inform, engage and enthuse bar staff about cask beer and help pubs to maximise the potential...
Insight
Renowned brewer Stuart Howe moves to Butcombe Brewery
Butcombe Brewery has appointed Stuart Howe as Director of Brewing. Mr Howe is recognised as one of the leading brewers and innovators in the industry and joins Butcombe from Molson-Coors Craft, where he was responsible for beer quality and development at the brewing...
Greene King announces programme to serve better cask ale
Greene King has launched an online training platform, Beer Genius, to give licensees all the tools they need to pour perfect pints and boost beer sales. Created to support the unveiling of a new look for Greene King’s flagship beer, Greene King IPA, the website will...
The Brewer’s Palette: how the choice of raw materials determine beer style and flavour
The Brewer’s Palette: how the choice of raw materials determine beer style and flavour Lecture by Toby Heasman, Head Brewer, Hall & Woodhouse and Richard Westwood, Managing Director, Marston's Beer Company Great brewing is partly science and partly art. ...
CAMRA calls for beer duty cut
CAMRA is calling on the Chancellor to cut beer duty for a historic third time in next month’s Budget, as a report published today estimates 1,047 additional pubs would have closed if the Government had not scrapped the beer duty escalator and cut beer duty in 2013 and...
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...
Cask Reports
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...
National Winter Ales Festival – a moveable feast
The National Winter Ales Festival (NWAF) will be held at The Roundhouse in Derby from 11th-14th February and is organised by Gillian Hough. This is the second time Gillian has organised the festival and previously she has organised the Derby Winter Beer Festivals and...
Cask Marque Makes New Appointments
Cask Marque are delighted to announce two important appointments made to the management team. Keith Bott, previous Chairman of SIBA and owner of Titanic Brewery joins us as a non Executive Director. Keith was keen to be involved in an organisation that champions cask...
BBPA urges MPs to support Beer Duty cut
The BBPA’s Brigid Simmonds has written to Members of Parliament this week, urging them to support a Parliamentary motion urging a cut in beer duty in the Budget on 18th March. Early Day Motion 625 has been tabled by campaigning MP Andrew Griffiths, and already has the...
Membership of SUSTAIN increases
Nine new members have formally signed up to the BBPA-operated SUSTAIN waste packaging compliance scheme, marking a great start to 2015. The new members include Britain’s biggest brewer, Molson Coors, and, for the first time, two leading pub companies. Membership is...