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Chancellor cuts beer tax for third time

Mar 18, 2015 | News

Brigid Simmonds, Chief Executive of the British Beer & Pub Association has applauded the penny cut in beer duty just announced in the Budget: “The Chancellor really is a ‘Hat Trick Hero’. His third, successive beer tax cut shows he has listened to consumers,...

CAMRA National Pub of the Year 2014

Feb 17, 2015 | Awards, News

The Salutation Inn, a rural freehouse in the small village of Ham, Gloucestershire, has today won CAMRA’s National Pub of the Year Award – a feat made even more impressive given that this is the first pub the landlord has ever run. Former business analyst...

Sales of cask ale increasing each year

Feb 4, 2015 | News, Stats & Research

Cask ale continues to grow and to increase its share of the on-trade beer market according to recently-released figures for 2014. Total sales of standard and premium cask ale were 2,204,000 barrels in 2012, 2,223,000 in 2013 and 2,248,000 in 2014. What appears really...

British beer sales up for the first time in ten years

Jan 30, 2015 | Latest

Total beer sales up 1.3 per cent in 2014,  ending a decade of decline Off-trade sales overtake on trade, for the first time on record A third duty cut is vital, says BBPA’s Brigid Simmonds A decade of decline in UK beer sales has come to an end, with a 1.3 per cent...

What to expect at BeerX

Jan 28, 2015 | Events, News, Practical Advice

The Society of Independent Brewers (SIBA) has unveiled speakers for BeerX, its celebration of British beer taking place in Sheffield this March. Speakers addressing delegates on BeerX Industry Day, Thursday 19 March, are: Bob Pease, chief executive officer of the...
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