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Hooray Harry to celebrate Royal Wedding
Pub operator and brewer Brakspear is launching a range of Royal Wedding offers aimed at attracting people to visit its...
CAMRA votes for some change
Members of the Campaign for Real Ale have voted to approve all but one of its National Executive’s recommendations...
Wild Beer Co Cask Collaborations
The Wild Beer Co announces exciting collaboration projects for the year ahead. The first of these is called The...
BII Licensee of the Year 2018 Semi-Finalists Announced
The British Institute of Innkeeping (BII) - the leading professional body representing the UK’s licensees - is...
SIBA Chairman steps down
IBA has announced that Buster Grant has resigned as Chairman of the Society with immediate effect...
Greene King Pre-Close Trading Statement
reene King has issued a pre-close trading statement for the last 12 months. "Pub Company...
News
Brewers’ Research & Education Fund Opens for Applications
major grants fund that provides funding for scientific research and education in the brewing industry has begun inviting applications for funding in 2018/19. Under the Brewers Research & Education Fund (BREF), applicants have just under...
Hogs Back Brewery – as seen on TV
arnham brewer Hogs Back Brewery is set to reach an estimated 1.6 million TV viewers when it appears on BBC One Daytime series, The Farmers' Country Showdown, later this month. The episode featuring Hogs Back Brewery will be...
CAMRA’s Discrimination Debate
ndustry experts will gather at the Manchester Beer Festival trade day to debate how the beer industry should combat discrimination. Taking place between 6:30 pm and 7:30 pm on 24 January at Manchester Central, the panel...
Iron Maiden and Robinsons launch Light Brigade
ritish rock legends Iron Maiden and independent family brewers Robinsons announce the creation of Light Brigade, a unique golden English ale with a 4.1% ABV. It has been developed in support of Help for Heroes,...
Manchester Beer Week 2018
anchester’s only city-wide beer festival returns this summer, promising a packed 10-day calendar of events designed to celebrate the best of beer and pub culture. Now entering its third year, Manchester Beer Week will run from Friday,...
There’s A Beer For That Takes on High Beer Duty
ollowing a strategic review of the major issues facing the beer and pub sector over the next few years, the cross-industry consumer campaign, There’s A Beer For That, is evolving into a new campaign with a revised emphasis to address...
Ale Trail
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...
Brewers’ Research & Education Fund Opens for Applications
major grants fund that provides funding for scientific research and education in the brewing industry has begun inviting applications for funding in 2018/19. Under the Brewers Research & Education Fund (BREF), applicants have just under...
Hogs Back Brewery – as seen on TV
arnham brewer Hogs Back Brewery is set to reach an estimated 1.6 million TV viewers when it appears on BBC One Daytime series, The Farmers' Country Showdown, later this month. The episode featuring Hogs Back Brewery will be...
CAMRA’s Discrimination Debate
ndustry experts will gather at the Manchester Beer Festival trade day to debate how the beer industry should combat discrimination. Taking place between 6:30 pm and 7:30 pm on 24 January at Manchester Central, the panel...
Cask Ale
ALMR calls for business rates reform
ommenting on the publication of beer sales figures today, ALMR CEO Kate Nicholls said: “The beer sales upturn reflects Government having listened to the united industry that lobbied on beer duty. However, the continued downturn of beer...
Beer sales increase
S ales of British beer rose by 0.7 per cent in 2017, with a positive end to the year supported with a welcome freeze in beer duty in the November Budget. This increase in sales means that fifty-five million more pints of beer were sold in 2017, compared with...
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...
Beer and Food
Something for the Weekend – Lancaster Blonde
ome of you may remember from a few articles back that I own a dog. An unfeasibly large Labrador, referred to in our household as ‘The Big Dog’. He’s not fat, he’s just big, the size of a small donkey. He’s a gentle soul, very placid, to...
Something for the Weekend – Hop Back Summer Lightning
apologise in advance if you start reading this and think, I’ve read this somewhere before. It’s because I want to reference an article I sent to Cask Marque back in 2013, but it has relevance when talking about this week’s beer. Back...
Something for the Weekend – Young’s Double Chocolate Stout
ighty ho, lads and lasses, take a look at the date today. It’s the 17th March, the date when St Patrick allegedly drove the snakes out of Ireland and we could all celebrate with a beer or two. Specifically a glass or two of stout. This...
Something for the Weekend – Thwaites Crafty Dan 13 Guns
first came across this week’s beer at an industry ‘do’. Every December, the Guild of British Beer Writers holds a dinner and awards ceremony to celebrate the best in beer writing and journalism. It’s one of my favourite events of the...
Something for the Weekend – Sarah Hughes Dark Ruby Mild
’ve wanted to write about this week’s beer for some time but a few things held me back. Firstly, I know you have to try very very hard to find it, and when you finally think you’ve found somewhere with a firkin of this hallowed beer, it...
Something for the Weekend – Old Speckled Hen
his week, I looked at the number of Something For The Weekend articles which had been posted on the Cask Marque website. Twenty six. I also stared out of the window for lengthy periods of time, dusted the skirting boards, ate way too many chocolate...
Insight
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...
ALMR calls for business rates reform
ommenting on the publication of beer sales figures today, ALMR CEO Kate Nicholls said: “The beer sales upturn reflects Government having listened to the united industry that lobbied on beer duty. However, the continued downturn of beer...
Beer sales increase
S ales of British beer rose by 0.7 per cent in 2017, with a positive end to the year supported with a welcome freeze in beer duty in the November Budget. This increase in sales means that fifty-five million more pints of beer were sold in 2017, compared with...
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...
Cask Reports
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...
Brewers’ Research & Education Fund Opens for Applications
major grants fund that provides funding for scientific research and education in the brewing industry has begun inviting applications for funding in 2018/19. Under the Brewers Research & Education Fund (BREF), applicants have just under...
Hogs Back Brewery – as seen on TV
arnham brewer Hogs Back Brewery is set to reach an estimated 1.6 million TV viewers when it appears on BBC One Daytime series, The Farmers' Country Showdown, later this month. The episode featuring Hogs Back Brewery will be...
CAMRA’s Discrimination Debate
ndustry experts will gather at the Manchester Beer Festival trade day to debate how the beer industry should combat discrimination. Taking place between 6:30 pm and 7:30 pm on 24 January at Manchester Central, the panel...
Iron Maiden and Robinsons launch Light Brigade
ritish rock legends Iron Maiden and independent family brewers Robinsons announce the creation of Light Brigade, a unique golden English ale with a 4.1% ABV. It has been developed in support of Help for Heroes,...