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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...
SIBA launches new food safety and quality management programme
The Society of Independent Brewers (SIBA) is introducing a unique food safety and quality management programme for its...
‘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...
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....
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...
Champion Beer of Scotland 2015
The Campaign for Real Ale has announced that Black Gold, a traditional Scottish stout by Cairngorm Brewery from...
News
Nicholsons Autumn Beer Festival
Nicholsons pubs will be hosting a an autumn beer festival with a difference from 31st October to 16th November. As well as an interesting selection of dark, autumnal beers from breweries including Wild Beer Co and Red Squirrel, there will also be an unusual...
Advice on the new allergen legislation
Changes to UK labelling regulations mean that pubs are required to provide allergen advice to customers from 13th December 2014. This advice must be provided by pubs for all non pre-packaged food and drinks including cask ale. Allergen advice can be on printed lists,...
Charles Wells Cellar Management Course
Charles Wells Pub Company provide the Award in Beer and Cellar Quality courses each month. Please see the list of dates below and for further information contact Charles Wells. Course includes: Profit through Quality Cask / Keg Beer Cellar Management Deliveries...
Cask Ale Week – Caledonian Brewery activity
The Caledonian Brewery in Edinburgh has declared Cask Ale Week a success following its social media-led tutored tasting night which attracted a record audience to the Brewery. More than 150 drinkers, who like Caledonian Beer and its award-winning Deuchars IPA on...
European Beer & Health Symposium presents research on effects of moderate beer consumption
The recent European Beer & Health Symposium in Brussels saw scientists presenting some of the latest research on the potential effects for health of moderate* beer consumption. The results confirmed that moderate beer consumption by healthy adults can be fully...
Cask Ale Week – Palmers activity
There is a wealth of activity from Palmers Brewery in Dorset: A celebrity chef will be cooking bacon and sausage sandwiches/buns – the buns will include Tally Ho beer! The Brewery will be open to the public, with between 3-5 free brewery tours throughout the day. The...
Ale Trail
Matthew Clark sees increasing sales of English products
Leading on-trade supplier Matthew Clark has announced soaring sales of English products including beers, wines and spirits over the last 12 months. This follows recent reports of a substantial increase in new winery and brewery registrations in the UK, highlighting...
Cask Ale Week – Palmers show how it’s done
Cask Ale Week was a massive opportunity for breweries and pubs to really talk up cask ale and get their communities behind them. Here are some examples from Palmers Brewery showing a really integrated campaign with: Pub activity including promotinal material offering...
Brewers of Nottingham Collective
The strength of Nottinghamshire’s brewery offer is being brought to the county's attention, thanks to the newly formed Brewers of Nottinghamshire collective. The Brewers of Nottinghamshire currently brings together 12 of Nottinghamshire’s leading breweries, and aims...
Nicholsons Autumn Beer Festival
Nicholsons pubs will be hosting a an autumn beer festival with a difference from 31st October to 16th November. As well as an interesting selection of dark, autumnal beers from breweries including Wild Beer Co and Red Squirrel, there will also be an unusual...
Advice on the new allergen legislation
Changes to UK labelling regulations mean that pubs are required to provide allergen advice to customers from 13th December 2014. This advice must be provided by pubs for all non pre-packaged food and drinks including cask ale. Allergen advice can be on printed lists,...
Charles Wells Cellar Management Course
Charles Wells Pub Company provide the Award in Beer and Cellar Quality courses each month. Please see the list of dates below and for further information contact Charles Wells. Course includes: Profit through Quality Cask / Keg Beer Cellar Management Deliveries...
Cask Ale
CAMRA Announces Pub of the Year finalists
CAMRA has today announced the four pubs in the final of their National Pub of the Year competition – one of which will be crowned the overall winner early next year. The Freshfield in Formby (Merseyside), The Harewood Arms in Broadbottom (Greater Manchester) The...
Seven Heaven – A New Beer to Showcase the Magic of Malt
For beer lovers, malt is at the heart of the passion and it inspired Susanna Forbes founder of DrinkBritain.com, and Britain's Beer Sommelier of the Year and founder of the School of Booze, Jane Peyton, to create a beer that focuses attention on the beauty,...
Cyclops accreditation hits 2000
Cyclops, the accreditation scheme for beer, has now reached 2000 beers. The number is growing fast, with over 400 new beers accredited in the last twelve months. The recent growth in cask ale and craft beer is the result of new drinkers being attracted to beers which...
Tim Martin Speaks
You can listen to an interview with Tim Martin which has been produced by Propel Tim talks about his early days and how he first got involved in pubs, his proudest moments, the importance of the service ethic to JDW, staff loyalty, customer expectations and the...
TCG’s Proud of our Ale campaign sees sales of cask soar
Managed pub and bar operator TCG is celebrating the success of its fourth annual Proud of Our Ale festival, held in 40 of its pubs for seven weeks. Over the four years since the first campaign in autumn 2011, TCG’s cask ale volumes during Proud of Our Ale have grown...
Parliament passes rent only option for tied tenants
After a fierce debate, and to the surprise of many campaigners, the House of Commons passed a bill on the 18th November which will allow a Market Rent Only Option to be provided by large pub-owning businesses for tenants and leaseholders. This means that these...
Beer and Food
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,...
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...
Insight
Seven Heaven – A New Beer to Showcase the Magic of Malt
For beer lovers, malt is at the heart of the passion and it inspired Susanna Forbes founder of DrinkBritain.com, and Britain's Beer Sommelier of the Year and founder of the School of Booze, Jane Peyton, to create a beer that focuses attention on the beauty,...
Cyclops accreditation hits 2000
Cyclops, the accreditation scheme for beer, has now reached 2000 beers. The number is growing fast, with over 400 new beers accredited in the last twelve months. The recent growth in cask ale and craft beer is the result of new drinkers being attracted to beers which...
Tim Martin Speaks
You can listen to an interview with Tim Martin which has been produced by Propel Tim talks about his early days and how he first got involved in pubs, his proudest moments, the importance of the service ethic to JDW, staff loyalty, customer expectations and the...
TCG’s Proud of our Ale campaign sees sales of cask soar
Managed pub and bar operator TCG is celebrating the success of its fourth annual Proud of Our Ale festival, held in 40 of its pubs for seven weeks. Over the four years since the first campaign in autumn 2011, TCG’s cask ale volumes during Proud of Our Ale have grown...
Parliament passes rent only option for tied tenants
After a fierce debate, and to the surprise of many campaigners, the House of Commons passed a bill on the 18th November which will allow a Market Rent Only Option to be provided by large pub-owning businesses for tenants and leaseholders. This means that these...
BeerX 2015
The Society of Independent Brewers (SIBA) is returning to Sheffield next March to stage its third annual celebration of British beer, BeerX. BeerX 2015 is being held from 17-21 March, at iceSheffield, where last year’s event was staged, to great success. It will...
Cask Reports
Cask Ale Week – Palmers show how it’s done
Cask Ale Week was a massive opportunity for breweries and pubs to really talk up cask ale and get their communities behind them. Here are some examples from Palmers Brewery showing a really integrated campaign with: Pub activity including promotinal material offering...
Brewers of Nottingham Collective
The strength of Nottinghamshire’s brewery offer is being brought to the county's attention, thanks to the newly formed Brewers of Nottinghamshire collective. The Brewers of Nottinghamshire currently brings together 12 of Nottinghamshire’s leading breweries, and aims...
Nicholsons Autumn Beer Festival
Nicholsons pubs will be hosting a an autumn beer festival with a difference from 31st October to 16th November. As well as an interesting selection of dark, autumnal beers from breweries including Wild Beer Co and Red Squirrel, there will also be an unusual...
Advice on the new allergen legislation
Changes to UK labelling regulations mean that pubs are required to provide allergen advice to customers from 13th December 2014. This advice must be provided by pubs for all non pre-packaged food and drinks including cask ale. Allergen advice can be on printed lists,...
Charles Wells Cellar Management Course
Charles Wells Pub Company provide the Award in Beer and Cellar Quality courses each month. Please see the list of dates below and for further information contact Charles Wells. Course includes: Profit through Quality Cask / Keg Beer Cellar Management Deliveries...
Cask Ale Week – Caledonian Brewery activity
The Caledonian Brewery in Edinburgh has declared Cask Ale Week a success following its social media-led tutored tasting night which attracted a record audience to the Brewery. More than 150 drinkers, who like Caledonian Beer and its award-winning Deuchars IPA on...