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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...
Know Your Beers – Our Guide To Wheat Beer!
The Cask Marque Guide To Beer Styles:I bet you all have a friend or a colleague who tells you they don’t...
Know Your Beers – Our Guide To Stouts & Porters!
I bet you all have a friend or a colleague who tells you they don’t like beer? I know. It’s unfathomable...
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...
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...
Cloudwater Brewery returns to Cask
Cloudwater Brewery announced last week that it was bringing back production of cask beer. The brewery had...
News
GBBF chooses Charity Partner
he Great British Beer Festival, taking place from 7-11 August at Olympia London, has partnered with the Royal British Legion to raise a collective glass to say ‘Thank You’ to the First World War generation who served, sacrificed and...
SIBA publishes its proposals for Small Breweries’ Relief
Today, Wednesday 27th June, SIBA has set out its proposals for how Small Breweries’ Relief (SBR) can be enhanced to encourage job creation, investment and growth in British independent brewing whilst protecting our flourishing small craft brewers. SIBA is calling on...
New SIBA Chairman announced
SIBA has today announced Ian Fozard of Rooster’s Brewery as the organisation's new National Chairman, with immediate effect. Ian, who has run Rooster’s brewery in Knaresborough, North Yorkshire together with his sons Tom and Oliver since 2011, has been a SIBA Board...
British Guild of Beer Writers opens its awards
The search is on for the best writing about beer and pubs, as the British Guild of Beer Writers opens its annual awards, offering a total prize fund of £11,000 to the winning journalists, broadcasters, bloggers and other communicators. Entries are invited between now...
Cask ale drinkers more likely to watch live sports in pubs
Cask ale drinkers are more likely to watch live sports and music events and support quiz nights compared with the average pub-goer, according to new research. The findings, by the producers of the Cask Report, showed sport plays a particularly important role with cask...
CAMRA gears up for Beer Day Britain
With “Beer Day Britain” taking place tomorrow, CAMRA Members are getting ready to celebrate the Nation's favourite drink in pubs, clubs and breweries across Great Britain. Beer Day Britain, instigated by Beer Sommelier Jane Peyton, takes place on Friday 15 June with...
Ale Trail
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...
GBBF chooses Charity Partner
he Great British Beer Festival, taking place from 7-11 August at Olympia London, has partnered with the Royal British Legion to raise a collective glass to say ‘Thank You’ to the First World War generation who served, sacrificed and...
SIBA publishes its proposals for Small Breweries’ Relief
Today, Wednesday 27th June, SIBA has set out its proposals for how Small Breweries’ Relief (SBR) can be enhanced to encourage job creation, investment and growth in British independent brewing whilst protecting our flourishing small craft brewers. SIBA is calling on...
New SIBA Chairman announced
SIBA has today announced Ian Fozard of Rooster’s Brewery as the organisation's new National Chairman, with immediate effect. Ian, who has run Rooster’s brewery in Knaresborough, North Yorkshire together with his sons Tom and Oliver since 2011, has been a SIBA Board...
Cask Ale
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...
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...
Beer and Food
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...
GBBF chooses Charity Partner
he Great British Beer Festival, taking place from 7-11 August at Olympia London, has partnered with the Royal British Legion to raise a collective glass to say ‘Thank You’ to the First World War generation who served, sacrificed and...
Insight
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...
Cask Reports
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...
GBBF chooses Charity Partner
he Great British Beer Festival, taking place from 7-11 August at Olympia London, has partnered with the Royal British Legion to raise a collective glass to say ‘Thank You’ to the First World War generation who served, sacrificed and...
SIBA publishes its proposals for Small Breweries’ Relief
Today, Wednesday 27th June, SIBA has set out its proposals for how Small Breweries’ Relief (SBR) can be enhanced to encourage job creation, investment and growth in British independent brewing whilst protecting our flourishing small craft brewers. SIBA is calling on...
New SIBA Chairman announced
SIBA has today announced Ian Fozard of Rooster’s Brewery as the organisation's new National Chairman, with immediate effect. Ian, who has run Rooster’s brewery in Knaresborough, North Yorkshire together with his sons Tom and Oliver since 2011, has been a SIBA Board...
British Guild of Beer Writers opens its awards
The search is on for the best writing about beer and pubs, as the British Guild of Beer Writers opens its annual awards, offering a total prize fund of £11,000 to the winning journalists, broadcasters, bloggers and other communicators. Entries are invited between now...