CASK MARQUE NEWS
CASK MARQUE & INDUSTRY NEWS
New report from Dea Latis
NEW report out today by Dea Latis: National survey into female attitudes and behaviours towards beer Despite brewing...
Charles Wells given green light for new £13m brewery complex
Bedford-based brewer, Charles Wells is a step closer to realising its ambition of a new £13 million brewery complex...
Honey Bee Beer is back
Britain's under-threat bees are being offered a lifeline by Henley brewer and pub operator Brakspear, whose Honey Bee...
DE14 ‘nano’ brewery hosts return collaboration with Midlands brewer
DE14, the 600-pint nano brewery, has hosted a return collaboration brew with a Coventry craft brewer to develop a...
Quality recognition for Saltaire Brewery
This month, Saltaire, one of Yorkshire’s favourite breweries, joined the small but growing group of SALSA plus Beer...
Fuller’s presents Shakespeare in the Garden
Returning for another year, Fuller’s Inns is delighted to announce Shakespeare in the Garden 2018, in association...
News
Jenning’s Celebrates 190 Years of Brewing
ennings Brewery is celebrating 190 years of brewing in 2018 with a limited edition commemorative pump clip for their flagship beer, Cumberland Ale and a programme of events and promotions throughout the year. In 1828, George IV...
MPs learn about importance of beer and cheese
he National Farmers Union (NFU) teamed up with the All-Party Parliamentary Beer Group to highlight the importance of two great national products – British beer and cheese - to the UK economy. The two organisations hosted a beer and...
CAMRA set to campaign for quality beer not just cask
AMRA is set to widen its remit to represent drinkers of quality beers, ciders and perries of all types, as well as moving its focus beyond traditional pubs, if its members approve recommendations put before them in April. While...
Wild Card’s Jaega Wise joins SIBA as Director
rewer Jaega Wise of Wild Card Brewery in East London has been made a SIBA South East Elected Director, following an election at the organisations South East AGM. The SIBA South East Region, which includes Greater London and has around...
Castle Rock brews ale for a broadcasting legend
D ennis McCarthy, the London-born broadcaster who came to Nottingham as a wartime refugee and went on to become the city's best loved radio personality, is to be honoured in the pubs and bars of his adopted city with an ale brewed by Castle Rock in his memory. In the...
CAMRA’s new Good Beer Guide App contains 40,000 pubs
AMRA is launching an innovative new app that puts good pubs and great pints at people’s fingertips. The Good Beer Guide app collates data from over 40,000 pubs so that app users can search for local pubs based on their individual...
Ale Trail
Bath Ales’ new brewery nearing completion
ath Ales’ new multi-million pound brewery has reached its latest milestone ahead of opening in the spring. 12 new fermenting vessels have now been lifted into place as work constructing the south west’s most sophisticated and...
Gluten-free beer available at Great British Beer Festival Winter
AMRA has confirmed that there will be a range of gluten-free beers available for festival-goers at its upcoming Great British Beer Festival Winter, taking place from 20-24 February in the Halls, Norwich. There will...
Local Breweries star at Great British Beer Festival Winter
reweries from across East Anglia will be taking centre stage at the Great British Beer Festival Winter 2018, taking place from the 20th-24th February in Norwich. The local breweries will showcase a range of their finest beers to...
Jenning’s Celebrates 190 Years of Brewing
ennings Brewery is celebrating 190 years of brewing in 2018 with a limited edition commemorative pump clip for their flagship beer, Cumberland Ale and a programme of events and promotions throughout the year. In 1828, George IV...
MPs learn about importance of beer and cheese
he National Farmers Union (NFU) teamed up with the All-Party Parliamentary Beer Group to highlight the importance of two great national products – British beer and cheese - to the UK economy. The two organisations hosted a beer and...
CAMRA set to campaign for quality beer not just cask
AMRA is set to widen its remit to represent drinkers of quality beers, ciders and perries of all types, as well as moving its focus beyond traditional pubs, if its members approve recommendations put before them in April. While...
Cask Ale
CAMRA Pub of the Year 2018
he Cricketers Arms in St Helens, Merseyside, has won the prestigious Pub of the Year title from CAMRA just five years after it was boarded up for closure. When owners Andy and Denise Evans took over the running of the pub in 2013, it...
SIBA to tackle sexist marketing
ollowing a recent Board meeting of independent brewers in Burton on Trent, SIBA is moving forward with plans to create a marketing ‘Code of Practice’ for its members. SIBA members and a panel of experts will be discussing the...
Champion Winter Beer of Britain 2018 Announced
ipper from Green Jack brewery has won CAMRA’s prestigious Champion Winter Beer of Britain 2018 award on the opening day of the Great British Beer Festival Winter in Norwich. Green Jack Brewery, which is local to the festival and based...
Fuller’s takes over Dark Star
ark Star, the renowned West Sussex craft brewer, has today joined forces with Fuller’s to grow the business and take the brewer’s brands to a wider audience. The deal, which sees Fuller’s take a 100% stake in the business, will give...
BeerX announces 2 big names at this year’s event
IBA has announced that BBC Radio 2 presenter Nigel Barden and famed beer writer Pete Brown will both play important roles at this year's BeerX, the UK’s biggest beer and brewing trade event. Mike Benner,...
Norwich Pubs Join Great British Beer Festival Winter
ubs across the city of Norwich are putting on a number of events for the Fringe Festival, a celebration of local beer and pubs throughout the month of February to coincide with the Great British Beer Festival Winter. Each of the...
Beer and Food
Something for the Weekend – Wadworth 6X
e are very, very lucky at the moment in the beer world. We now have more breweries in the UK since the 1930’s. Beer is outselling wine in every country in the world (other than France, Italy, and quite bizarrely, Bulgaria). We luxuriate...
Something for the Weekend – Brains S.A.
ome of you may know that I used to work for Guinness, and the most commonly asked question I got asked was “Why does Guinness taste so much better in Dublin than it does in a pub here?” Well, there were some technical reasons:...
Something for the Weekend – Palmer’s Dorset Gold
hen I first started writing these features, I was very determined that the beers I chose would be available from John O’Groats to Land’s End, so no reader could ever accuse me of being too regionalised, and become frustrated that they...
Something for the Weekend – Walker’s Crisps Beer Match
ast your mind back a few years ago to Walker’s (the crisp people, just in case you’re not with me and thought I was talking about a beer) who launched an advertising campaign focused on the quality and care they put into every bag of...
Something for the Weekend – Sambrooks Wandle
hroughout most of the 1990’s I now realise I lived in a bit of a bubble. I was lucky enough to run a free house, not tied to any big brewery; I had a fairly lenient boss who was happy for me to choose and buy the cask beers I wanted to...
Something for the Weekend – Jenning’s Sneck Lifter
rom an early age, my parents took me, and my siblings, walking. I don’t mean a stroll round the shops, or a walk round the municipal park. It was a hard core “get your boots on, pull on your thermals” hike. With hindsight, I know why...
Insight
CAMRA’s Club of the Year
T he Flixton Conservative Club in Manchester has won the prestigious CAMRA Club of the Year award after a recent transformation has seen an even wider range of real ales and ciders brought in. On top of a friendly atmosphere and good beer selection, the well...
CAMRA Pub of the Year 2018
he Cricketers Arms in St Helens, Merseyside, has won the prestigious Pub of the Year title from CAMRA just five years after it was boarded up for closure. When owners Andy and Denise Evans took over the running of the pub in 2013, it...
SIBA to tackle sexist marketing
ollowing a recent Board meeting of independent brewers in Burton on Trent, SIBA is moving forward with plans to create a marketing ‘Code of Practice’ for its members. SIBA members and a panel of experts will be discussing the...
Champion Winter Beer of Britain 2018 Announced
ipper from Green Jack brewery has won CAMRA’s prestigious Champion Winter Beer of Britain 2018 award on the opening day of the Great British Beer Festival Winter in Norwich. Green Jack Brewery, which is local to the festival and based...
Fuller’s takes over Dark Star
ark Star, the renowned West Sussex craft brewer, has today joined forces with Fuller’s to grow the business and take the brewer’s brands to a wider audience. The deal, which sees Fuller’s take a 100% stake in the business, will give...
BeerX announces 2 big names at this year’s event
IBA has announced that BBC Radio 2 presenter Nigel Barden and famed beer writer Pete Brown will both play important roles at this year's BeerX, the UK’s biggest beer and brewing trade event. Mike Benner,...
Cask Reports
Gluten-free beer available at Great British Beer Festival Winter
AMRA has confirmed that there will be a range of gluten-free beers available for festival-goers at its upcoming Great British Beer Festival Winter, taking place from 20-24 February in the Halls, Norwich. There will...
Local Breweries star at Great British Beer Festival Winter
reweries from across East Anglia will be taking centre stage at the Great British Beer Festival Winter 2018, taking place from the 20th-24th February in Norwich. The local breweries will showcase a range of their finest beers to...
Jenning’s Celebrates 190 Years of Brewing
ennings Brewery is celebrating 190 years of brewing in 2018 with a limited edition commemorative pump clip for their flagship beer, Cumberland Ale and a programme of events and promotions throughout the year. In 1828, George IV...
MPs learn about importance of beer and cheese
he National Farmers Union (NFU) teamed up with the All-Party Parliamentary Beer Group to highlight the importance of two great national products – British beer and cheese - to the UK economy. The two organisations hosted a beer and...
CAMRA set to campaign for quality beer not just cask
AMRA is set to widen its remit to represent drinkers of quality beers, ciders and perries of all types, as well as moving its focus beyond traditional pubs, if its members approve recommendations put before them in April. While...
Wild Card’s Jaega Wise joins SIBA as Director
rewer Jaega Wise of Wild Card Brewery in East London has been made a SIBA South East Elected Director, following an election at the organisations South East AGM. The SIBA South East Region, which includes Greater London and has around...