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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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How To Promote Your Beer And Pub On Social Media
ubs rely on word-of-mouth promotion to get people through the door and buying their beers. Increasingly, this form of promotion is taking place on social media, where users are telling the world about their night out and ‘checking...
Time For A Beer Spring Clean?
ost successful businesses give themselves a health check at least once a year to make sure they are maximising profits, reducing wastage, motivating staff and generally running their company with efficiency. Pubs, clubs, hotels and...
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...
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 lover’s paradise to hit London next week
'beer lover's paradise' will arrive in London next week, bringing together a thousand different beers from across the UK and abroad for the Great British Beer Festival. Taking place from 7-11 August at Olympia London, the festival will...
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),...
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