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Since 1997 Cask Marque has been ensuring that the cask ale you drink in pubs in the UK is in perfect condition.
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Cask Report Summary 2013-14
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Don’t be put off by colour
By Annabel Smith, Cask Marque Training Manager and Beer Sommelier One of the questions I’m asked most about my job at Cask Marque (other than “can I have your job?”) is how our beer inspectors are tested to make sure they know their stuff and have the credentials to...
Cambridgeshire Man Becomes First To Reach 1000th Cask Ale Scan
A Cambridgeshire man has become to first to visit 1,000 pubs as part of Cask Marque’s World’s Biggest Ale Trail. The Ale Trail is one of the features of the Cask Marque phone app (CaskFinder), which pinpoints cask ale pubs across the country. Users can ‘scan’ the Cask...
Cask Report 2013-2014
This Cask Ale Report 2013-14 by beer writer Pete Brown, covers the cask ale market, the cask drinker and offers advice on range and stocking policy. Did you know that cask ale drinkers are amongst the most affluent and well educated consumers in the UK? Did you know...
The Great Big Taste Challenge
Calling pubs up and down the country to start planning for Cask Ale Week! The Week runs from 27t September to 6th October – and is a chance to get people celebrating Britain’s national drink at your pub. The theme, the Great Big Taste Challenge gives plenty of scope...
Tale of Two Cities
By Annabel Smith, Cask Marque training manager and Beer Sommelier. Earlier on this year, I went to Bruges for the weekend with my lovely other half. I had heard many other beery people talk about how fantastic Bruges is, and we both felt it was a gap in our beer...
Beer and chocolate tasting wows Leeds ladies
A group of women in Leeds yesterday joined the growing number of female beer drinkers when the Leeds Brewery Tap hosted a pre-Easter beer and chocolate tasting. The tasting was organised by Dea Latis - named after the Celtic goddess of beer - a nationwide group aiming...
New release of CaskFinder App
For those of you lucky enough to have an iPhone or Android powered smartphone, a new version of our CaskFinder app was released today. So this seemed like a good time to tell you what has changed and how we have worked to address some of the valuable feedback we have...
Educating Rita?
There is a scene in the film ‘Educating Rita’ which I’ve always remembered. Rita is asked to write an essay about how best to stage a production of Ibsen’s ‘Peer Gynt’. Her essay consists of five words: “Do it on the radio”. Always makes me laugh. Every year I get...
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