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Gloucester takes SIBA’s top cask award
Gloucester Brewery has taken home Overall Champion Gold in the Cask Awards at the SIBA Independent Beer Awards 2019....
George Young moves from Fuller’s to Bath
Baths Ales has hired Georgina Young as its new Head Brewer.George, who is currently Head Brewer at Fuller, Smith &...
SIBA British Craft Beer Report 2019
Today SIBA publishes the British Craft Beer Report 2019, providing insight into the industry as a whole for the first...
Good Things named top brewery business
Good Things Brewing Co have been named SIBA’s Brewery Business of the Year 2019 at the prestigious SIBA Business...
Craft beer cannot be brewed by global brewers
The ground-breaking SIBA British Craft Beer Report 2019, launched at BeerX UK today, has revealed that 98% of...
Good Customer Service Goes A Long Way
Some of you may know that I have a bee in my bonnet about service: in pubs, restaurants, shops and cafes....
News
SIBA announces key-note speaker for BeerX
The current British Guild of Beer Writers’ “Beer Writer of the Year” and creator of award-winning Fermentation Radio Emma Inch has been announced as the keynote speaker for BeerX UK 2019.Organised by SIBA, BeerX UK is the UK’s biggest beer and brewing trade event,...
2019 Champion Winter Beer of Britain
Lacons Brewery has scooped gold in CAMRA’s Champion Winter Beer of Britain competition with ‘Audit Ale’, an 8% ABV Barley Wine packed with berry fruit and spices.Following over a year of local tasting panels and regional heats, Audit Ale impressed judges for its...
Great British Beer Festival Winter
CAMRA invites festival lovers to enjoy ales-of-every-season at Norwich’s final Great British Beer Festival Winter from 19 February 2019. Not to be confused with a festival for winter beers alone, this has beers of every style and shade, served in cask, KeyKeg and...
2018 saw biggest rise in beer sales for 45 years
The British Beer and Pub Association has just released sales data about beer sales in the UK for 2018. The BBPA Beer Barometer provides an insight into the British beer market on a regular basis and shows important trends in sales.Total beer sales increased by 2.6% in...
First Parliamentary Pub Quiz
A team led by MPs Therese Coffey and Simon Hoare quizzed their way to victory in the inaugural All Party Parliamentary Beer Group and PubAid Pub Quiz, held on 5 February. Team ‘Bling' lifted the winners' trophy ahead of fierce competition in a packed room in the House...
SIBA Business Awards 2019
The SIBA Business Awards 2019 seek to highlight the UK’s best independent craft beer businesses, retailers, pubs and restaurants across a broad range of categories, with the prestigious awards presented at the Society of Independent Brewers (SIBA) flagship event...
Ale Trail
CAMRA announces new Chair
CAMRA has announced its new chairman-elect as Nik Antona, who will take on the leadership of the organisation following its Members’ Weekend, AGM and Conference to be held in Dundee in April.Nik Antona takes over from Jackie Parker, who is stepping down after a year...
SIBA announces key-note speaker for BeerX
The current British Guild of Beer Writers’ “Beer Writer of the Year” and creator of award-winning Fermentation Radio Emma Inch has been announced as the keynote speaker for BeerX UK 2019.Organised by SIBA, BeerX UK is the UK’s biggest beer and brewing trade event,...
2019 Champion Winter Beer of Britain
Lacons Brewery has scooped gold in CAMRA’s Champion Winter Beer of Britain competition with ‘Audit Ale’, an 8% ABV Barley Wine packed with berry fruit and spices.Following over a year of local tasting panels and regional heats, Audit Ale impressed judges for its...
Great British Beer Festival Winter
CAMRA invites festival lovers to enjoy ales-of-every-season at Norwich’s final Great British Beer Festival Winter from 19 February 2019. Not to be confused with a festival for winter beers alone, this has beers of every style and shade, served in cask, KeyKeg and...
2018 saw biggest rise in beer sales for 45 years
The British Beer and Pub Association has just released sales data about beer sales in the UK for 2018. The BBPA Beer Barometer provides an insight into the British beer market on a regular basis and shows important trends in sales.Total beer sales increased by 2.6% in...
First Parliamentary Pub Quiz
A team led by MPs Therese Coffey and Simon Hoare quizzed their way to victory in the inaugural All Party Parliamentary Beer Group and PubAid Pub Quiz, held on 5 February. Team ‘Bling' lifted the winners' trophy ahead of fierce competition in a packed room in the House...
Cask Ale
SIBA announces key-note speaker for BeerX
The current British Guild of Beer Writers’ “Beer Writer of the Year” and creator of award-winning Fermentation Radio Emma Inch has been announced as the keynote speaker for BeerX UK 2019.Organised by SIBA, BeerX UK is the UK’s biggest beer and brewing trade event,...
2019 Champion Winter Beer of Britain
Lacons Brewery has scooped gold in CAMRA’s Champion Winter Beer of Britain competition with ‘Audit Ale’, an 8% ABV Barley Wine packed with berry fruit and spices.Following over a year of local tasting panels and regional heats, Audit Ale impressed judges for its...
Great British Beer Festival Winter
CAMRA invites festival lovers to enjoy ales-of-every-season at Norwich’s final Great British Beer Festival Winter from 19 February 2019. Not to be confused with a festival for winter beers alone, this has beers of every style and shade, served in cask, KeyKeg and...
2018 saw biggest rise in beer sales for 45 years
The British Beer and Pub Association has just released sales data about beer sales in the UK for 2018. The BBPA Beer Barometer provides an insight into the British beer market on a regular basis and shows important trends in sales.Total beer sales increased by 2.6% in...
How to visit 10 pubs in the last week…. and stand a chance of winning some great prizes!
Thank you to those that have informed us they have completed the South Herts Ale Trail. Your entries are safely in the prize draw hat! For everyone else, the South Herts CaskFinder Ale Trail competition will close next Friday (15th Feb), so you have just a week to...
First Parliamentary Pub Quiz
A team led by MPs Therese Coffey and Simon Hoare quizzed their way to victory in the inaugural All Party Parliamentary Beer Group and PubAid Pub Quiz, held on 5 February. Team ‘Bling' lifted the winners' trophy ahead of fierce competition in a packed room in the House...
Beer and Food
CAMRA announces new Chair
CAMRA has announced its new chairman-elect as Nik Antona, who will take on the leadership of the organisation following its Members’ Weekend, AGM and Conference to be held in Dundee in April.Nik Antona takes over from Jackie Parker, who is stepping down after a year...
SIBA announces key-note speaker for BeerX
The current British Guild of Beer Writers’ “Beer Writer of the Year” and creator of award-winning Fermentation Radio Emma Inch has been announced as the keynote speaker for BeerX UK 2019.Organised by SIBA, BeerX UK is the UK’s biggest beer and brewing trade event,...
2019 Champion Winter Beer of Britain
Lacons Brewery has scooped gold in CAMRA’s Champion Winter Beer of Britain competition with ‘Audit Ale’, an 8% ABV Barley Wine packed with berry fruit and spices.Following over a year of local tasting panels and regional heats, Audit Ale impressed judges for its...
Great British Beer Festival Winter
CAMRA invites festival lovers to enjoy ales-of-every-season at Norwich’s final Great British Beer Festival Winter from 19 February 2019. Not to be confused with a festival for winter beers alone, this has beers of every style and shade, served in cask, KeyKeg and...
2018 saw biggest rise in beer sales for 45 years
The British Beer and Pub Association has just released sales data about beer sales in the UK for 2018. The BBPA Beer Barometer provides an insight into the British beer market on a regular basis and shows important trends in sales.Total beer sales increased by 2.6% in...
First Parliamentary Pub Quiz
A team led by MPs Therese Coffey and Simon Hoare quizzed their way to victory in the inaugural All Party Parliamentary Beer Group and PubAid Pub Quiz, held on 5 February. Team ‘Bling' lifted the winners' trophy ahead of fierce competition in a packed room in the House...
Insight
National Pub of the Year 2018
The Wonston Arms, a small community pub nestled in the heart of a Hampshire village, has been named the best in the country in CAMRA’s prestigious National Pub of the Year Awards 2018, the most respected and well-known pub accolade in the UK.The pub was derelict and...
CAMRA announces new Chair
CAMRA has announced its new chairman-elect as Nik Antona, who will take on the leadership of the organisation following its Members’ Weekend, AGM and Conference to be held in Dundee in April.Nik Antona takes over from Jackie Parker, who is stepping down after a year...
SIBA announces key-note speaker for BeerX
The current British Guild of Beer Writers’ “Beer Writer of the Year” and creator of award-winning Fermentation Radio Emma Inch has been announced as the keynote speaker for BeerX UK 2019.Organised by SIBA, BeerX UK is the UK’s biggest beer and brewing trade event,...
2019 Champion Winter Beer of Britain
Lacons Brewery has scooped gold in CAMRA’s Champion Winter Beer of Britain competition with ‘Audit Ale’, an 8% ABV Barley Wine packed with berry fruit and spices.Following over a year of local tasting panels and regional heats, Audit Ale impressed judges for its...
Great British Beer Festival Winter
CAMRA invites festival lovers to enjoy ales-of-every-season at Norwich’s final Great British Beer Festival Winter from 19 February 2019. Not to be confused with a festival for winter beers alone, this has beers of every style and shade, served in cask, KeyKeg and...
2018 saw biggest rise in beer sales for 45 years
The British Beer and Pub Association has just released sales data about beer sales in the UK for 2018. The BBPA Beer Barometer provides an insight into the British beer market on a regular basis and shows important trends in sales.Total beer sales increased by 2.6% in...
Cask Reports
SIBA announces key-note speaker for BeerX
The current British Guild of Beer Writers’ “Beer Writer of the Year” and creator of award-winning Fermentation Radio Emma Inch has been announced as the keynote speaker for BeerX UK 2019.Organised by SIBA, BeerX UK is the UK’s biggest beer and brewing trade event,...
2019 Champion Winter Beer of Britain
Lacons Brewery has scooped gold in CAMRA’s Champion Winter Beer of Britain competition with ‘Audit Ale’, an 8% ABV Barley Wine packed with berry fruit and spices.Following over a year of local tasting panels and regional heats, Audit Ale impressed judges for its...
Great British Beer Festival Winter
CAMRA invites festival lovers to enjoy ales-of-every-season at Norwich’s final Great British Beer Festival Winter from 19 February 2019. Not to be confused with a festival for winter beers alone, this has beers of every style and shade, served in cask, KeyKeg and...
2018 saw biggest rise in beer sales for 45 years
The British Beer and Pub Association has just released sales data about beer sales in the UK for 2018. The BBPA Beer Barometer provides an insight into the British beer market on a regular basis and shows important trends in sales.Total beer sales increased by 2.6% in...
First Parliamentary Pub Quiz
A team led by MPs Therese Coffey and Simon Hoare quizzed their way to victory in the inaugural All Party Parliamentary Beer Group and PubAid Pub Quiz, held on 5 February. Team ‘Bling' lifted the winners' trophy ahead of fierce competition in a packed room in the House...
SIBA Business Awards 2019
The SIBA Business Awards 2019 seek to highlight the UK’s best independent craft beer businesses, retailers, pubs and restaurants across a broad range of categories, with the prestigious awards presented at the Society of Independent Brewers (SIBA) flagship event...