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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
News
Majority Of Consumers Prefer To Drink Local
he majority of real ale consumers value independently owned breweries, with nearly three out of four (74%) ale drinkers who expressed an opinion saying they are concerned that small independent breweries are being bought by larger multinational...
Siren’s Broken Dream Breakfast Stout Is Named The Best In Britain
iren Brewery based in Berkshire has won the Campaign for Real Ale's prestigious Champion Beer of Britain award, one of the highest accolades in the beer industry. Awarded on the opening day of the Great British Beer Festival at Olympia London,...
Majority of Britons find the price of a pint unaffordable
he majority of people in Britain could be struggling to afford drinking beer in pubs, with new research by YouGov[1] revealing that 56% of people surveyed who expressed an opinion believe the price of a pint of beer in a pub in the UK is...
Greene King Brings 5X to the Great British Beer Festival
reat British Beer Festival’s headline sponsor is set to bring its iconic 5X brew to the festival next week. The two-year-old oak aged beer is never sold in its purity but forms the basis of two of Greene King’s well-known brands Old...
Beer sales rise, but a cut in beer tax is still needed to help pubs, says BBPA
Beer sales in the second quarter of 2018 were up 3.6% on the same period in 2017, according to the latest Beer Barometer sales data from the British Beer & Pub Association. The increase in sales of beer in Q2 2018 was driven by the off-trade (e.g. supermarkets),...
Cask Marque supporting Good Beer Guide
ask Marque is sponsoring CAMRA’s Good Beer Guide 2019, due to be published on 13 September. Fully revised and updated each year to feature the very best pubs across the United Kingdom, the Good Beer Guide is completely...
Ale Trail
Brighton & Hove Beer Week Kicks Off This Friday!
The inaugural Brighton & Hove Beer Week kicks off this Friday (24th August). With more than sixty events taking place across thirty venues throughout the ten-day period, it looks set to be the biggest celebration of beer and brewing the city has ever seen. ...
Robinsons Launch ‘Best In Glass’ Scheme in Relentless Quest For Beer Quality
T he 180-year-old Stockport-based family brewers, ROBINSONS, have launched a new quality assurance scheme – ‘Best in Glass’ – in a quest to improve beer quality across their 260-strong tenanted and managed pub estate. For the first time this new initiative will...
Majority Of Consumers Prefer To Drink Local
he majority of real ale consumers value independently owned breweries, with nearly three out of four (74%) ale drinkers who expressed an opinion saying they are concerned that small independent breweries are being bought by larger multinational...
Siren’s Broken Dream Breakfast Stout Is Named The Best In Britain
iren Brewery based in Berkshire has won the Campaign for Real Ale's prestigious Champion Beer of Britain award, one of the highest accolades in the beer industry. Awarded on the opening day of the Great British Beer Festival at Olympia London,...
Majority of Britons find the price of a pint unaffordable
he majority of people in Britain could be struggling to afford drinking beer in pubs, with new research by YouGov[1] revealing that 56% of people surveyed who expressed an opinion believe the price of a pint of beer in a pub in the UK is...
Greene King Brings 5X to the Great British Beer Festival
reat British Beer Festival’s headline sponsor is set to bring its iconic 5X brew to the festival next week. The two-year-old oak aged beer is never sold in its purity but forms the basis of two of Greene King’s well-known brands Old...
Cask Ale
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...
Nicholsons Pubs Launch Autumn Showcase
Nicholson’s Pubs have announced the launch of their third annual Autumn Beer Showcase, a month-long event championing all things beer. Running from 24th September to 4th November, it will allow hop heads and guests the chance to try some of Britain’s best...
Formation of ‘Independent Brewers of Europe’
The independent craft brewing associations of nine European countries have announced successful discussions towards the formation of a new body, the Independent Brewers of Europe (IBE), whose aim is to work together to promote and advance the mutual interests of their...
Cask Report 2018-19
ownload the Cask Report 2018-19 and read about the action plan to tackle cask's decline in sales. One of the key points in the report is TEMPERATURE Research found that 85% of licensees interviewed say they take pride in cask ale and getting it...
St Austell unveils new pump clip designs
t Austell Brewery has unveiled new pump clip designs for flagship brands, Tribute Cornish Pale Ale and Proper Job IPA. The clips will launch in pubs nationwide from this week. Designed to define the strong, individual characteristics of both...
Hogs Back Hop Party
Hogs Back Brewery celebrated its fourth annual hop harvest with a party for more than 1000 residents, families, friends and members of the Tongham TEA Club. Despite rainfall on the day, spirits were high among the guests enjoying live music, a Kids Zone, street food,...
Beer and Food
St Austell unveils new pump clip designs
t Austell Brewery has unveiled new pump clip designs for flagship brands, Tribute Cornish Pale Ale and Proper Job IPA. The clips will launch in pubs nationwide from this week. Designed to define the strong, individual characteristics of both...
Hogs Back Hop Party
Hogs Back Brewery celebrated its fourth annual hop harvest with a party for more than 1000 residents, families, friends and members of the Tongham TEA Club. Despite rainfall on the day, spirits were high among the guests enjoying live music, a Kids Zone, street food,...
Brighton & Hove Beer Week Kicks Off This Friday!
The inaugural Brighton & Hove Beer Week kicks off this Friday (24th August). With more than sixty events taking place across thirty venues throughout the ten-day period, it looks set to be the biggest celebration of beer and brewing the city has ever seen. ...
How To Match Beer and Food
It would be wrong to say beer is better with food than wine, or wine is better than beer. They just do completely different things: the carbonation in beer can act as a palate cleanser, spritzy hoppy beers can cool the heat of fiery chillies, and malty beers...
Robinsons Launch ‘Best In Glass’ Scheme in Relentless Quest For Beer Quality
T he 180-year-old Stockport-based family brewers, ROBINSONS, have launched a new quality assurance scheme – ‘Best in Glass’ – in a quest to improve beer quality across their 260-strong tenanted and managed pub estate. For the first time this new initiative will...
Majority Of Consumers Prefer To Drink Local
he majority of real ale consumers value independently owned breweries, with nearly three out of four (74%) ale drinkers who expressed an opinion saying they are concerned that small independent breweries are being bought by larger multinational...
Insight
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...
Nicholsons Pubs Launch Autumn Showcase
Nicholson’s Pubs have announced the launch of their third annual Autumn Beer Showcase, a month-long event championing all things beer. Running from 24th September to 4th November, it will allow hop heads and guests the chance to try some of Britain’s best...
Formation of ‘Independent Brewers of Europe’
The independent craft brewing associations of nine European countries have announced successful discussions towards the formation of a new body, the Independent Brewers of Europe (IBE), whose aim is to work together to promote and advance the mutual interests of their...
Cask Report 2018-19
ownload the Cask Report 2018-19 and read about the action plan to tackle cask's decline in sales. One of the key points in the report is TEMPERATURE Research found that 85% of licensees interviewed say they take pride in cask ale and getting it...
St Austell unveils new pump clip designs
t Austell Brewery has unveiled new pump clip designs for flagship brands, Tribute Cornish Pale Ale and Proper Job IPA. The clips will launch in pubs nationwide from this week. Designed to define the strong, individual characteristics of both...
Hogs Back Hop Party
Hogs Back Brewery celebrated its fourth annual hop harvest with a party for more than 1000 residents, families, friends and members of the Tongham TEA Club. Despite rainfall on the day, spirits were high among the guests enjoying live music, a Kids Zone, street food,...
Cask Reports
Brighton & Hove Beer Week Kicks Off This Friday!
The inaugural Brighton & Hove Beer Week kicks off this Friday (24th August). With more than sixty events taking place across thirty venues throughout the ten-day period, it looks set to be the biggest celebration of beer and brewing the city has ever seen. ...
Robinsons Launch ‘Best In Glass’ Scheme in Relentless Quest For Beer Quality
T he 180-year-old Stockport-based family brewers, ROBINSONS, have launched a new quality assurance scheme – ‘Best in Glass’ – in a quest to improve beer quality across their 260-strong tenanted and managed pub estate. For the first time this new initiative will...
Majority Of Consumers Prefer To Drink Local
he majority of real ale consumers value independently owned breweries, with nearly three out of four (74%) ale drinkers who expressed an opinion saying they are concerned that small independent breweries are being bought by larger multinational...
Siren’s Broken Dream Breakfast Stout Is Named The Best In Britain
iren Brewery based in Berkshire has won the Campaign for Real Ale's prestigious Champion Beer of Britain award, one of the highest accolades in the beer industry. Awarded on the opening day of the Great British Beer Festival at Olympia London,...
Majority of Britons find the price of a pint unaffordable
he majority of people in Britain could be struggling to afford drinking beer in pubs, with new research by YouGov[1] revealing that 56% of people surveyed who expressed an opinion believe the price of a pint of beer in a pub in the UK is...
Greene King Brings 5X to the Great British Beer Festival
reat British Beer Festival’s headline sponsor is set to bring its iconic 5X brew to the festival next week. The two-year-old oak aged beer is never sold in its purity but forms the basis of two of Greene King’s well-known brands Old...