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Award winning Lancaster-based brewer and regional leisure venue operator, Lancaster Brewery, has filed record pre-tax profits of £667,102 in 2017/2018 - up 88% year on year - and has announced significant investment plans for 2019.Lancaster Brewery, which owns top...
Hogs Back Brewery ‘Adopt a Hop’ Helps Hospice Care
Hogs Back Brewery has signed up Hospice Care charity Phyllis Tuckwell to its unique hop adoption scheme. Having chosen Farnham-based Phyllis Tuckwell as its Charity Partner for the forthcoming year, the Surrey brewery invited the charity to take part in the ‘Adopt a...
British Guild of Beer Writers Awards 2018
Brighton-based beer writer and radio broadcaster Emma Inch has been named Beer Writer of the Year 2018 at the Guild of Beer Writers’ annual awards ceremony, staged on 22 November. Beer Writer of the Year is the top award in the Guild’s annual competition for writing...
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 respected and well-known pub awards in the UK.Among the finalists is the Volunteer Arms (Staggs) in Musselburgh, a traditional local decorated with...
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 to you and I. But these mad, sad fools need our guidance because their experience or perception of beer has probably been a poor one. We know that not...
What Ails Cask Ale? (Part Two)
(Reproduced courtesy of Pete Brown. Follow him here.)After talking last week about some general attitudes and behaviours around cask ale, this week I’m focusing in on the sense I got from research about some specific issues around how cask is presented to the...
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 to you and I. But these mad, sad fools need our guidance because their experience or perception of beer has probably been a poor one. We know that not...
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 Cask Report. Interesting Points: People are interest in benefits, not features... Quality always matters! Closely linked to awareness and knowledge....
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 like beer? I know. It’s unfathomable to you and I. But these mad, sad fools need our guidance because their experience or perception of beer has...
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