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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...
British beer sales up for the first time in ten years
Total beer sales up 1.3 per cent in 2014, ending a decade of decline Off-trade sales overtake on trade, for the first...
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...
What to expect at BeerX
The Society of Independent Brewers (SIBA) has unveiled speakers for BeerX, its celebration of British beer taking...
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...
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...
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Leeds Brewery Tasting
A group of women in Leeds yesterday joined the growing number of female beer drinkers when the Leeds Brewery Tap hosted a pre-Easter beer and chocolate tasting. The tasting was organised by Dea Latis - named after the Celtic goddess of beer - a nationwide group aiming...
Beer & Chocolate
Beer and chocolate – a match made in heaven? Beer-loving ladies from across the industry have marked an early end to Lenten promises by hosting their annual Beer and Chocolate tasting at the Draft House, Tower Bridge. With Easter firmly in their sights, the women...
What women want?
In Pete Brown’s first book, ‘Man Walks into a Pub’, the author makes an observation about beers brewed specifically for women. “Every now and again some brewer will have another punt at a beer targeted at women. They never work. It’s not that women don’t drink...
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...
Beer and Food
Adnams brewery says “Hop to it”
Adnams has launched a county-wide appeal for donations of wild and garden hops and is urging beer lovers to report sightings of them growing to help create a new Wild Hop beer, due to be launched this autumn. The recipe for the new beer – which is set to be an amber...
Cask Ale Week 2014
There are plenty of opportunities to get involved in Cask Ale Week and, if you run a pub, why not replicate some of these ideas in your own pub? See below for plans so far from breweries and pubs around the UK including beer festivals and tastings, food and beer...
GBBF – Great Bonkers Beer Festival
GBBF - Great Bonkers Beer Festival August is the month when the biggest Beer Festival in Britain hits London. The Great British Beer Festival – or GBBF - attracts around 55,000 drinkers over a 5 day period, offering up to 700 different cask ales, and a plethora of...
CAMRA calls for brewers to include tasting notes on pump clips
CAMRA has called upon British breweries to revolutionise the way they promote their beers in pubs by making it standard to clearly show what a beer looks, smells and tastes on handpumps. The campaigning organisation claims that this can help grow the real ale market...
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,...
Insight
What women want?
In Pete Brown’s first book, ‘Man Walks into a Pub’, the author makes an observation about beers brewed specifically for women. “Every now and again some brewer will have another punt at a beer targeted at women. They never work. It’s not that women don’t drink...
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 Reports
Cask Report Summary 2011
Download the Cask Report Leaflet 2011-12 here
Cask Report 2011-12
Download the Cask-Ale-Report_2011-12 here
Cask Report 2010-11
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Cask Report 2009-10
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Cask Report 2009 Summary
Download the 2009-summary here
Cask Report 2008-09
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