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Allergens; not just in food. Check your beers!
Written by Nigel Sadler, @NigelSommelier - Ex-brewer. Beer & Brewing Educator, IBD Qualified: Malting,...
CAMRA announces new Chair
CAMRA has announced its new chairman-elect as Nik Antona, who will take on the leadership of the organisation...
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...
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...
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...
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...
News
Beers For Your Festive Cheeseboard!
Put away the port, retire the red wine, and bring out the beer with the Christmas cheeseboard this year. Why beer, instead of the traditional fortified wines? For a few very good reasons.All beer has fizz, carbonation, sparkle: little bubbles of CO2 which...
BBPA calls on Chancellor to help beer industry catch up with Germany
The British Beer & Pub Association has welcomed new research that shows UK brewers are amongst the biggest and best in Europe. However, the tax burden they face compared to their European counterparts is holding them back, it argues.The new research, released by...
Fuller’s Three Wise Men on sale to raise funds for prostate cancer awareness
Fuller, Smith & Turner has joined forces with Prostate Cancer UK for the third consecutive festive season to brew the hugely popular Wise Men – a beer designed specifically to raise money for, and awareness of, prostate cancer.The cask ale was officially launched...
Q3 2018 Beer Barometer – beer sales grow, but sector needs certainty on Brexit, says BBPA
Beer sales in the third quarter of 2018 were up 4.4% on the same period in 2017, according to the latest Beer Barometer sales data from the British Beer & Pub Association.Pubs (referred to as the On-Trade) in particular benefited from the much-needed boost,...
Lancaster Brewery announces record profit and significant investment plans
Award winning Lancaster-based brewer and regional leisure venue operator, Lancaster Brewery, has filed record pre-tax profits of £667,102 in 2017/2018 - up 88% year on year - and has announced significant investment plans for 2019.Lancaster Brewery, which owns top...
Hogs Back Brewery ‘Adopt a Hop’ Helps Hospice Care
Hogs Back Brewery has signed up Hospice Care charity Phyllis Tuckwell to its unique hop adoption scheme. Having chosen Farnham-based Phyllis Tuckwell as its Charity Partner for the forthcoming year, the Surrey brewery invited the charity to take part in the ‘Adopt a...
Ale Trail
BII launches search for 2019 Licensee of the Year
Entries are now open for this year’s BII Licensee of the Year award, sponsored by Sky. The British Institute of Innkeeping (BII) celebrates all that is good in the licensed retail sector and will recognise the top individual licensees operating in the industry in...
Beers For Your Festive Cheeseboard!
Put away the port, retire the red wine, and bring out the beer with the Christmas cheeseboard this year. Why beer, instead of the traditional fortified wines? For a few very good reasons.All beer has fizz, carbonation, sparkle: little bubbles of CO2 which...
BBPA calls on Chancellor to help beer industry catch up with Germany
The British Beer & Pub Association has welcomed new research that shows UK brewers are amongst the biggest and best in Europe. However, the tax burden they face compared to their European counterparts is holding them back, it argues.The new research, released by...
Fuller’s Three Wise Men on sale to raise funds for prostate cancer awareness
Fuller, Smith & Turner has joined forces with Prostate Cancer UK for the third consecutive festive season to brew the hugely popular Wise Men – a beer designed specifically to raise money for, and awareness of, prostate cancer.The cask ale was officially launched...
Q3 2018 Beer Barometer – beer sales grow, but sector needs certainty on Brexit, says BBPA
Beer sales in the third quarter of 2018 were up 4.4% on the same period in 2017, according to the latest Beer Barometer sales data from the British Beer & Pub Association.Pubs (referred to as the On-Trade) in particular benefited from the much-needed boost,...
Lancaster Brewery announces record profit and significant investment plans
Award winning Lancaster-based brewer and regional leisure venue operator, Lancaster Brewery, has filed record pre-tax profits of £667,102 in 2017/2018 - up 88% year on year - and has announced significant investment plans for 2019.Lancaster Brewery, which owns top...
Cask Ale
BII launches search for 2019 Licensee of the Year
Entries are now open for this year’s BII Licensee of the Year award, sponsored by Sky. The British Institute of Innkeeping (BII) celebrates all that is good in the licensed retail sector and will recognise the top individual licensees operating in the industry in...
Beers For New Year’s Eve
The Christmas decorations are starting to wilt, the turkey carcass is finally in the bin, and you’re ready for one last hurrah before returning to normality: it’s New Year’s Eve.Even if you’ve sworn you can’t eat any more festive food, there’s always room...
Beers For Your Festive Cheeseboard!
Put away the port, retire the red wine, and bring out the beer with the Christmas cheeseboard this year. Why beer, instead of the traditional fortified wines? For a few very good reasons.All beer has fizz, carbonation, sparkle: little bubbles of CO2 which...
BBPA calls on Chancellor to help beer industry catch up with Germany
The British Beer & Pub Association has welcomed new research that shows UK brewers are amongst the biggest and best in Europe. However, the tax burden they face compared to their European counterparts is holding them back, it argues.The new research, released by...
Fuller’s Three Wise Men on sale to raise funds for prostate cancer awareness
Fuller, Smith & Turner has joined forces with Prostate Cancer UK for the third consecutive festive season to brew the hugely popular Wise Men – a beer designed specifically to raise money for, and awareness of, prostate cancer.The cask ale was officially launched...
Q3 2018 Beer Barometer – beer sales grow, but sector needs certainty on Brexit, says BBPA
Beer sales in the third quarter of 2018 were up 4.4% on the same period in 2017, according to the latest Beer Barometer sales data from the British Beer & Pub Association.Pubs (referred to as the On-Trade) in particular benefited from the much-needed boost,...
Beer and Food
BII launches search for 2019 Licensee of the Year
Entries are now open for this year’s BII Licensee of the Year award, sponsored by Sky. The British Institute of Innkeeping (BII) celebrates all that is good in the licensed retail sector and will recognise the top individual licensees operating in the industry in...
Beers For New Year’s Eve
The Christmas decorations are starting to wilt, the turkey carcass is finally in the bin, and you’re ready for one last hurrah before returning to normality: it’s New Year’s Eve.Even if you’ve sworn you can’t eat any more festive food, there’s always room...
Beers For Your Festive Cheeseboard!
Put away the port, retire the red wine, and bring out the beer with the Christmas cheeseboard this year. Why beer, instead of the traditional fortified wines? For a few very good reasons.All beer has fizz, carbonation, sparkle: little bubbles of CO2 which...
Beers For Your Christmas Dinner!
Flicking through all the Christmas food brochures which appear on my door mat around this time of year, I notice very few beers amongst the wine, bubbly and ubiquitous cream liqueurs on offer. In many of the supplements, beer is almost an afterthought, a...
BBPA calls on Chancellor to help beer industry catch up with Germany
The British Beer & Pub Association has welcomed new research that shows UK brewers are amongst the biggest and best in Europe. However, the tax burden they face compared to their European counterparts is holding them back, it argues.The new research, released by...
Fuller’s Three Wise Men on sale to raise funds for prostate cancer awareness
Fuller, Smith & Turner has joined forces with Prostate Cancer UK for the third consecutive festive season to brew the hugely popular Wise Men – a beer designed specifically to raise money for, and awareness of, prostate cancer.The cask ale was officially launched...
Insight
Castle Rock’s Brews New Nottinghamian Celebration Ale
Arthur Skill, a 19 year old Nottinghamian, owned a fish lorry. The year was 1919, and with the early morning rounds completed, Arthur found that more could be made of it carrying people to work - and so began Skills Coaches, the Nottingham based travel company that...
BII launches search for 2019 Licensee of the Year
Entries are now open for this year’s BII Licensee of the Year award, sponsored by Sky. The British Institute of Innkeeping (BII) celebrates all that is good in the licensed retail sector and will recognise the top individual licensees operating in the industry in...
Beers For Your Festive Cheeseboard!
Put away the port, retire the red wine, and bring out the beer with the Christmas cheeseboard this year. Why beer, instead of the traditional fortified wines? For a few very good reasons.All beer has fizz, carbonation, sparkle: little bubbles of CO2 which...
BBPA calls on Chancellor to help beer industry catch up with Germany
The British Beer & Pub Association has welcomed new research that shows UK brewers are amongst the biggest and best in Europe. However, the tax burden they face compared to their European counterparts is holding them back, it argues.The new research, released by...
Fuller’s Three Wise Men on sale to raise funds for prostate cancer awareness
Fuller, Smith & Turner has joined forces with Prostate Cancer UK for the third consecutive festive season to brew the hugely popular Wise Men – a beer designed specifically to raise money for, and awareness of, prostate cancer.The cask ale was officially launched...
Q3 2018 Beer Barometer – beer sales grow, but sector needs certainty on Brexit, says BBPA
Beer sales in the third quarter of 2018 were up 4.4% on the same period in 2017, according to the latest Beer Barometer sales data from the British Beer & Pub Association.Pubs (referred to as the On-Trade) in particular benefited from the much-needed boost,...
Cask Reports
Beers For Your Festive Cheeseboard!
Put away the port, retire the red wine, and bring out the beer with the Christmas cheeseboard this year. Why beer, instead of the traditional fortified wines? For a few very good reasons.All beer has fizz, carbonation, sparkle: little bubbles of CO2 which...
BBPA calls on Chancellor to help beer industry catch up with Germany
The British Beer & Pub Association has welcomed new research that shows UK brewers are amongst the biggest and best in Europe. However, the tax burden they face compared to their European counterparts is holding them back, it argues.The new research, released by...
Fuller’s Three Wise Men on sale to raise funds for prostate cancer awareness
Fuller, Smith & Turner has joined forces with Prostate Cancer UK for the third consecutive festive season to brew the hugely popular Wise Men – a beer designed specifically to raise money for, and awareness of, prostate cancer.The cask ale was officially launched...
Q3 2018 Beer Barometer – beer sales grow, but sector needs certainty on Brexit, says BBPA
Beer sales in the third quarter of 2018 were up 4.4% on the same period in 2017, according to the latest Beer Barometer sales data from the British Beer & Pub Association.Pubs (referred to as the On-Trade) in particular benefited from the much-needed boost,...
Lancaster Brewery announces record profit and significant investment plans
Award winning Lancaster-based brewer and regional leisure venue operator, Lancaster Brewery, has filed record pre-tax profits of £667,102 in 2017/2018 - up 88% year on year - and has announced significant investment plans for 2019.Lancaster Brewery, which owns top...
Hogs Back Brewery ‘Adopt a Hop’ Helps Hospice Care
Hogs Back Brewery has signed up Hospice Care charity Phyllis Tuckwell to its unique hop adoption scheme. Having chosen Farnham-based Phyllis Tuckwell as its Charity Partner for the forthcoming year, the Surrey brewery invited the charity to take part in the ‘Adopt a...