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‘British Beer’ SIBA’s 2015 Beer Report
The British Beer Report by Dr. Ignazio Cabras provides many insights into the independent beer sector and is based on...
SIBA Cask Champion 2015
SIBA has unveiled its Supreme Champion and medal winners in its National Beer Competition 2015, announced at its BeerX...
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...
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...
Excitement builds for SIBA’s BeerX
BeerX, the Society of Independent Brewers (SIBA)’s annual celebration of British Beer, has signed up more than 1,000...
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...
News
Cask Marque gets a ringing endorsement from licensees
16th February 2012 - The results of the Cask Marque annual survey with the licensees showed how important the award is in generating cask ale sales. 88% of licensees stated that it had helped increase sales with over 40% showing a growth in cask ale sales of over 10%....
Cask Marque pubs benefit
The power of digital media has proved a success as the CaskFinder app is used 110,000 times to find Cask Marque pubs in a 9 week period. The app which can be downloaded free from the iPhone store and the Android Market locates the consumers nearest Cask Marque pub and...
Marstons Old Empire has been voted the No.1 beer by user of CaskFinder app
The participants on the CaskFinder app Ale Trail have been encouraged to taste beers and give their feedback on how they rate them on a score of 1 to 5. The top beer in 2013 to date is Marstons Old Empire which overall received a 95% rating. Thornbridge have two beers...
Brewers join Cask Marque
Brewers join Cask Marque - Lancaster Brewery and Oakham Ales have both committed themselves to being champions of cask ale by joining Cask Marque as corporate members. Paul Nunny welcomed the new members “Working with Cask Marque will deliver both companies commercial...
New release of CaskFinder app
The CaskFinder app is used over 50,000 times a month to discover Cask Marque pubs, and following consumer feedback a major new release has been issued for both iPhone and Android versions. Much of the upgrade is based around aspects of the ‘World’s Biggest Ale Trail’:...
Cask Marque awareness grows
In a recent NOP Survey, 57% of cask ale drinkers recognised the Cask Marque plaque and 62% related the sign to beer quality. Interestingly, awareness is higher; 67% in the 21 to 35yr old category, which must in some part be due to the CaskFinder app, which is used...
Ale Trail
Cask Marque invests heavily in new website
The Cask Marque website which lists over 8,350 award winning pubs is now heavily consumer focused to help drive footfall into pubs. Drinkers will now be able to access a powerful search engine under the following headings: Pub Search Search by any part of the pub...
Views of the Industry Insider
When Cask Marque was set up in 1998 to promote the cask category within the industry we quickly discovered over a third of the pubs in the UK were serving poor quality beer. The question at the time was how could you grow the cask market if customers were frequently...
Cask Marque spreads its wings
8th June 2012 - With over 8,000 pubs in the UK achieving the Cask Marque award, demand for the scheme is spreading into Europe and America. This week The Bombardier in Paris achieved the award with its owners, Charles Wells, investing not only updating the dispense...
Cask Marque gets a ringing endorsement from licensees
16th February 2012 - The results of the Cask Marque annual survey with the licensees showed how important the award is in generating cask ale sales. 88% of licensees stated that it had helped increase sales with over 40% showing a growth in cask ale sales of over 10%....
Cask Marque pubs benefit
The power of digital media has proved a success as the CaskFinder app is used 110,000 times to find Cask Marque pubs in a 9 week period. The app which can be downloaded free from the iPhone store and the Android Market locates the consumers nearest Cask Marque pub and...
Marstons Old Empire has been voted the No.1 beer by user of CaskFinder app
The participants on the CaskFinder app Ale Trail have been encouraged to taste beers and give their feedback on how they rate them on a score of 1 to 5. The top beer in 2013 to date is Marstons Old Empire which overall received a 95% rating. Thornbridge have two beers...
Cask Ale
Otley Brews ales for Knife and Fork Food Pubs
Knife & Fork Food have collaborated with Otley Brewing Company to launch a series of ales exclusive to the South Wales pub company which has pubs in Cardiff and the Vale of Glamorgan. The new ale was launched in August at a number of Meet the Brewers events,...
Champion Beer of Britain 2014
The winner of the Champion Beer of Britain is Boltmaker brewed by Keighley brewery Timothy Taylor. The brewery has previously won the award four times for its well-known brew Landlord. Timothy Taylor describes Boltmaker as a well-balanced, genuine Yorkshire Bitter,...
US Gallup poll shows beer increasing in popularity at the expense of wine
According to an annual Gallup poll of preferences among Americans who drink alcohol, 41 percent of drinkers say they typically drink beer; 31 percent wine and 23 percent liquor. The ten percent divide between beer and wine is one of the largest recorded since 2005,...
Beer Day Britain 2015
Beer Day Britain is a grass roots project ‘for the love of beer’. It has been set up by Jane Peyton (Britain’s Beer Sommelier of the Year), Sophie de Ronde (head brewer at Brentwood Brewery), and Sara Barton (founder of and head brewer of Brewsters’ Brewing Company,...
Marston’s to showcase on Channel 5 in September
Marston’s Brewery is to feature in a new Channel 5 programme airing in September called One Ale Of A Job, narrated by Al Murray “The Pub Landlord”. This three part series produced by Shine TV follows the men and women of Marston’s, as one of the biggest and oldest...
Cask Marque accredits 9000 pubs
Cask Marque, the industry watchdog responsible for assessing the quality of cask ale in pubs nationwide has reached a milestone by awarding the accreditation to the 9000 th pub. The Court Inn in Durham was nominated for Cask Marque by Timothy Taylors, and received two...
Beer and Food
Cask Ale Week
Cask Ale Week was busy for a large number of breweries and pubs and obviously a huge amount of effort was required to make many of these events and activities happen. We're now getting feedback on what worked and what sort of impact all this hard work had on sales of...
Britain’s Beer Revolution
To celebrate Britain’s thriving beer culture CAMRA is publishing Britain’s Beer Revolution on 23rd October. The book is a contemporary look at the most influential breweries, places and people in the nation’s flourishing beer scene – as well as what makes them so...
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...
Insight
US Gallup poll shows beer increasing in popularity at the expense of wine
According to an annual Gallup poll of preferences among Americans who drink alcohol, 41 percent of drinkers say they typically drink beer; 31 percent wine and 23 percent liquor. The ten percent divide between beer and wine is one of the largest recorded since 2005,...
Beer Day Britain 2015
Beer Day Britain is a grass roots project ‘for the love of beer’. It has been set up by Jane Peyton (Britain’s Beer Sommelier of the Year), Sophie de Ronde (head brewer at Brentwood Brewery), and Sara Barton (founder of and head brewer of Brewsters’ Brewing Company,...
Marston’s to showcase on Channel 5 in September
Marston’s Brewery is to feature in a new Channel 5 programme airing in September called One Ale Of A Job, narrated by Al Murray “The Pub Landlord”. This three part series produced by Shine TV follows the men and women of Marston’s, as one of the biggest and oldest...
Cask Marque accredits 9000 pubs
Cask Marque, the industry watchdog responsible for assessing the quality of cask ale in pubs nationwide has reached a milestone by awarding the accreditation to the 9000 th pub. The Court Inn in Durham was nominated for Cask Marque by Timothy Taylors, and received two...
Pubs see beer sales increase in Q2
The beer industry has more to cheer about following the cut in Beer Duty as beer sales increased from April to June. According to the latest figures from the BBPA sales increased at the highest level since the the quarterly survey began in 1997. Following the historic...
Team effort brew from Punch and Everards
Everards Brewery and Punch Taverns have teamed up to give publicans the chance to brew their own beer. Eight Punch Partners came together at The Brunswick pub in Derby for the Everards Gold Cask Ale Champion course. Hosted by Graham Giblett, Everards Head Brewer, the...
Cask Reports
Marstons host 25th Cask Marque assessors meeting
Marstons kindly hosted the 25th meeting of the Cask Marque Assessors at their brewery in Burton. Over 40 assessors and trainers attended this twice a year gathering. The purpose is to update everybody on Cask Marque activities and performance and to talk about key...
Cask Marque invests heavily in new website
The Cask Marque website which lists over 8,350 award winning pubs is now heavily consumer focused to help drive footfall into pubs. Drinkers will now be able to access a powerful search engine under the following headings: Pub Search Search by any part of the pub...
Views of the Industry Insider
When Cask Marque was set up in 1998 to promote the cask category within the industry we quickly discovered over a third of the pubs in the UK were serving poor quality beer. The question at the time was how could you grow the cask market if customers were frequently...
Cask Marque spreads its wings
8th June 2012 - With over 8,000 pubs in the UK achieving the Cask Marque award, demand for the scheme is spreading into Europe and America. This week The Bombardier in Paris achieved the award with its owners, Charles Wells, investing not only updating the dispense...
Cask Marque gets a ringing endorsement from licensees
16th February 2012 - The results of the Cask Marque annual survey with the licensees showed how important the award is in generating cask ale sales. 88% of licensees stated that it had helped increase sales with over 40% showing a growth in cask ale sales of over 10%....
Cask Marque pubs benefit
The power of digital media has proved a success as the CaskFinder app is used 110,000 times to find Cask Marque pubs in a 9 week period. The app which can be downloaded free from the iPhone store and the Android Market locates the consumers nearest Cask Marque pub and...