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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...
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...
SIBA Business Awards 2019
The SIBA Business Awards 2019 seek to highlight the UK’s best independent craft beer businesses, retailers, pubs and...
Brewers encouraged by SIBA to complete Small Breweries’ Relief Questionnaire
In the November Budget the Treasury announced it would conduct a review into Small Breweries' Relief to ensure that it...
Get involved in the world’s biggest pub quiz
Fundraising packs for the World's Biggest Pub Quiz will be arriving over the next few weeks at the 970 pubs, bars and...
Fuller’s sells all its beer brands to Asahi
Fuller's has announced the sale of its entire beer business to Asahi for £250 million in a surprise announcement on...
News
British Guild of Beer Writers Awards 2018
Brighton-based beer writer and radio broadcaster Emma Inch has been named Beer Writer of the Year 2018 at the Guild of Beer Writers’ annual awards ceremony, staged on 22 November. Beer Writer of the Year is the top award in the Guild’s annual competition for writing...
CAMRA names 4 best pubs
CAMRA has named the best four pubs in the country as part of its Pub of the Year 2018 competition, one of the most respected and well-known pub awards in the UK.Among the finalists is the Volunteer Arms (Staggs) in Musselburgh, a traditional local decorated with...
What Ails Cask Ale? (Part Two)
(Reproduced courtesy of Pete Brown. Follow him here.)After talking last week about some general attitudes and behaviours around cask ale, this week I’m focusing in on the sense I got from research about some specific issues around how cask is presented to the...
What Ails Cask Ale? (Part One)
(Reproduced courtesy of Pete Brown. Follow him here.) The latest edition of the Cask Report has prompted quite the debate around the plight and possible future of cask. I didn’t write the Report this year (well, only bits of it) but I did do the research behind it....
BBPA Annual Dinner Award Winners Announced
St Austell Brewery, Joseph Holt, S.A. Brain, Molson Coors and Ian Payne MBE scooped up the honours at this year’s British Beer & Pub Association Annual Awards, presented at the BBPA’s Annual Dinner in London; a celebration of Britain’s beer and pub industry. ...
Cloudwater Brewery returns to Cask
Cloudwater Brewery announced last week that it was bringing back production of cask beer. The brewery had chosen to dispense with cask a couple of years ago and instead to concentrate on keg, in a move that was widely debated in the beer industry. The...
Ale Trail
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...
British Guild of Beer Writers Awards 2018
Brighton-based beer writer and radio broadcaster Emma Inch has been named Beer Writer of the Year 2018 at the Guild of Beer Writers’ annual awards ceremony, staged on 22 November. Beer Writer of the Year is the top award in the Guild’s annual competition for writing...
CAMRA names 4 best pubs
CAMRA has named the best four pubs in the country as part of its Pub of the Year 2018 competition, one of the most respected and well-known pub awards in the UK.Among the finalists is the Volunteer Arms (Staggs) in Musselburgh, a traditional local decorated with...
What Ails Cask Ale? (Part Two)
(Reproduced courtesy of Pete Brown. Follow him here.)After talking last week about some general attitudes and behaviours around cask ale, this week I’m focusing in on the sense I got from research about some specific issues around how cask is presented to the...
What Ails Cask Ale? (Part One)
(Reproduced courtesy of Pete Brown. Follow him here.) The latest edition of the Cask Report has prompted quite the debate around the plight and possible future of cask. I didn’t write the Report this year (well, only bits of it) but I did do the research behind it....
Ale Enthusiasts bound together by Cask Marque Ale Trail
A group of ale enthusiasts brought together by Cask Marque’s ‘Ale Trail’ have forged a firm friendship after becoming Ale Ambassadors for the brand. Drinkers are awarded ‘Ale Ambassador’ status by Cask Marque when they scan 500 or more Cask Marque...
Cask Ale
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...
British Guild of Beer Writers Awards 2018
Brighton-based beer writer and radio broadcaster Emma Inch has been named Beer Writer of the Year 2018 at the Guild of Beer Writers’ annual awards ceremony, staged on 22 November. Beer Writer of the Year is the top award in the Guild’s annual competition for writing...
CAMRA names 4 best pubs
CAMRA has named the best four pubs in the country as part of its Pub of the Year 2018 competition, one of the most respected and well-known pub awards in the UK.Among the finalists is the Volunteer Arms (Staggs) in Musselburgh, a traditional local decorated with...
Know Your Beers – Our Guide To Abbey & Trappist Ales!
I bet you all have a friend or a colleague who tells you they don’t like beer? I know. It’s unfathomable to you and I. But these mad, sad fools need our guidance because their experience or perception of beer has probably been a poor one. We know that not...
What Ails Cask Ale? (Part Two)
(Reproduced courtesy of Pete Brown. Follow him here.)After talking last week about some general attitudes and behaviours around cask ale, this week I’m focusing in on the sense I got from research about some specific issues around how cask is presented to the...
Beer and Food
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...
British Guild of Beer Writers Awards 2018
Brighton-based beer writer and radio broadcaster Emma Inch has been named Beer Writer of the Year 2018 at the Guild of Beer Writers’ annual awards ceremony, staged on 22 November. Beer Writer of the Year is the top award in the Guild’s annual competition for writing...
CAMRA names 4 best pubs
CAMRA has named the best four pubs in the country as part of its Pub of the Year 2018 competition, one of the most respected and well-known pub awards in the UK.Among the finalists is the Volunteer Arms (Staggs) in Musselburgh, a traditional local decorated with...
What Ails Cask Ale? (Part Two)
(Reproduced courtesy of Pete Brown. Follow him here.)After talking last week about some general attitudes and behaviours around cask ale, this week I’m focusing in on the sense I got from research about some specific issues around how cask is presented to the...
Insight
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...
British Guild of Beer Writers Awards 2018
Brighton-based beer writer and radio broadcaster Emma Inch has been named Beer Writer of the Year 2018 at the Guild of Beer Writers’ annual awards ceremony, staged on 22 November. Beer Writer of the Year is the top award in the Guild’s annual competition for writing...
CAMRA names 4 best pubs
CAMRA has named the best four pubs in the country as part of its Pub of the Year 2018 competition, one of the most respected and well-known pub awards in the UK.Among the finalists is the Volunteer Arms (Staggs) in Musselburgh, a traditional local decorated with...
Know Your Beers – Our Guide To Abbey & Trappist Ales!
I bet you all have a friend or a colleague who tells you they don’t like beer? I know. It’s unfathomable to you and I. But these mad, sad fools need our guidance because their experience or perception of beer has probably been a poor one. We know that not...
What Ails Cask Ale? (Part Two)
(Reproduced courtesy of Pete Brown. Follow him here.)After talking last week about some general attitudes and behaviours around cask ale, this week I’m focusing in on the sense I got from research about some specific issues around how cask is presented to the...
Cask Reports
British Guild of Beer Writers Awards 2018
Brighton-based beer writer and radio broadcaster Emma Inch has been named Beer Writer of the Year 2018 at the Guild of Beer Writers’ annual awards ceremony, staged on 22 November. Beer Writer of the Year is the top award in the Guild’s annual competition for writing...
CAMRA names 4 best pubs
CAMRA has named the best four pubs in the country as part of its Pub of the Year 2018 competition, one of the most respected and well-known pub awards in the UK.Among the finalists is the Volunteer Arms (Staggs) in Musselburgh, a traditional local decorated with...
What Ails Cask Ale? (Part Two)
(Reproduced courtesy of Pete Brown. Follow him here.)After talking last week about some general attitudes and behaviours around cask ale, this week I’m focusing in on the sense I got from research about some specific issues around how cask is presented to the...
Pete Brown talks about Cask Report research
Here’s a video of beer journalist, and 9 time Cask Report writer Pete Brown talking about his research for the 2018-19 Cask Report. Interesting Points: People are interest in benefits, not features... Quality always matters! Closely linked to awareness and knowledge....
What Ails Cask Ale? (Part One)
(Reproduced courtesy of Pete Brown. Follow him here.) The latest edition of the Cask Report has prompted quite the debate around the plight and possible future of cask. I didn’t write the Report this year (well, only bits of it) but I did do the research behind it....
BBPA Annual Dinner Award Winners Announced
St Austell Brewery, Joseph Holt, S.A. Brain, Molson Coors and Ian Payne MBE scooped up the honours at this year’s British Beer & Pub Association Annual Awards, presented at the BBPA’s Annual Dinner in London; a celebration of Britain’s beer and pub industry. ...