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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...
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...
What Ails Cask Ale? (Part Two)
(Reproduced courtesy of Pete Brown. Follow him here.)After talking last week about some general attitudes and...
Know Your Beers – Our Guide To Pale Ale
I bet you all have a friend or a colleague who tells you they don’t like beer? I know. It’s unfathomable...
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...
Know Your Beers – Our Guide To Lager
The Cask Marque Guide To Beer Styles:I bet you all have a friend or a colleague who tells you they don’t...
News
GBBF bigger than ever
he Great British Beer Festival will boast its biggest ever beer range at this summer’s festival, taking place from 7-11 August at Olympia London. Joining well-known favourites such as Fuller’s, St. Austell, XT, Harvey’s, Titanic and...
Pete Brown is appointed chair of British Guild of Beer Writers
he British Guild of Beer Writers has appointed acclaimed beer writer Pete Brown as its Chair. Brown takes up the post immediately, succeeding Tim Hampson, who stepped down last month after 12 years in the role. Brown has written about...
Fans to drink Six Million pints in last 16 match against Colombia
he BBPA is predicting that home fans will drink six million extra pints at the pub during the last 16 World Cup match against Colombia, as they cheer on the England team. The extra number of pints bought during the knockout stage match could...
British Guild of Beer Writers Chair steps down
t the Guild's AGM, held this Wednesday (27 June), Tim Hampson stepped down after exactly 12 years as the organisation's Chair. Addressing the 30+ members assembled for the meeting, Hampson reflected on his years in the role. "The...
Greene King announces full year results
reene King has announced their preliminary results for the 52 weeks to 29 April 2018. Headlines include: Successful customer investment and cost mitigation programmes Pub Company like-for-like (LFL) sales -1.2% excluding the impact...
Marston’s 2018 Beer Reports
his year’s Marston’s Beer Company’s annual On and Off Trade Reports have been officially released to trade. Insight has been gleaned from 4000 drinkers with the reports designed to work as a go-to guide for operators looking to ensure...
Ale Trail
What Happens On An Ale Ambassador Day?
hursday 24th May 2018 – The day of the much anticipated Cask Marque ale ambassador course had arrived. The reward for scanning 500 pubs on the ‘World’s Biggest Ale Trail’. There was an air of excitement from the committee as we...
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...
GBBF bigger than ever
he Great British Beer Festival will boast its biggest ever beer range at this summer’s festival, taking place from 7-11 August at Olympia London. Joining well-known favourites such as Fuller’s, St. Austell, XT, Harvey’s, Titanic and...
Pete Brown is appointed chair of British Guild of Beer Writers
he British Guild of Beer Writers has appointed acclaimed beer writer Pete Brown as its Chair. Brown takes up the post immediately, succeeding Tim Hampson, who stepped down last month after 12 years in the role. Brown has written about...
Fans to drink Six Million pints in last 16 match against Colombia
he BBPA is predicting that home fans will drink six million extra pints at the pub during the last 16 World Cup match against Colombia, as they cheer on the England team. The extra number of pints bought during the knockout stage match could...
Cask Ale
What’s Behind The Plaque?
Below is an introduction to Cask Marque that was written for Ale Cry - CAMRA's Central Lancashire Branch free magazine.The Cask Marque plaque adorns pubs up and down the country and is a sign of great beer in each one. Have you ever wondered what a pub has to do to...
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. ...
Quality Report
Ask any licensee what the benefit of doing regular staff training is and you’ll get a range of answers: guest satisfaction, a motivated team, staff retention, and better brand quality. But staff training is not just about the feel good factor. Investing in...
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,...
Beer and Food
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...
GBBF bigger than ever
he Great British Beer Festival will boast its biggest ever beer range at this summer’s festival, taking place from 7-11 August at Olympia London. Joining well-known favourites such as Fuller’s, St. Austell, XT, Harvey’s, Titanic and...
Insight
What’s Behind The Plaque?
Below is an introduction to Cask Marque that was written for Ale Cry - CAMRA's Central Lancashire Branch free magazine.The Cask Marque plaque adorns pubs up and down the country and is a sign of great beer in each one. Have you ever wondered what a pub has to do to...
How to Make Money from Cask
The following are some of our top tips for pubs to maximise the profit they can make from selling great cask beer:Get your quality rightOne poor quality pint of cask ale can damage your reputation as a cask retailer. Check it’s stored and served at the correct...
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. ...
Quality Report
Ask any licensee what the benefit of doing regular staff training is and you’ll get a range of answers: guest satisfaction, a motivated team, staff retention, and better brand quality. But staff training is not just about the feel good factor. Investing in...
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...
Cask Reports
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...
GBBF bigger than ever
he Great British Beer Festival will boast its biggest ever beer range at this summer’s festival, taking place from 7-11 August at Olympia London. Joining well-known favourites such as Fuller’s, St. Austell, XT, Harvey’s, Titanic and...
Pete Brown is appointed chair of British Guild of Beer Writers
he British Guild of Beer Writers has appointed acclaimed beer writer Pete Brown as its Chair. Brown takes up the post immediately, succeeding Tim Hampson, who stepped down last month after 12 years in the role. Brown has written about...
Fans to drink Six Million pints in last 16 match against Colombia
he BBPA is predicting that home fans will drink six million extra pints at the pub during the last 16 World Cup match against Colombia, as they cheer on the England team. The extra number of pints bought during the knockout stage match could...
British Guild of Beer Writers Chair steps down
t the Guild's AGM, held this Wednesday (27 June), Tim Hampson stepped down after exactly 12 years as the organisation's Chair. Addressing the 30+ members assembled for the meeting, Hampson reflected on his years in the role. "The...