08-Jan-2010 By Robyn Lewis
Heineken UK is offering footie fans the chance to win £1m as part of its "biggest" on-trade promotion to date. The campaign, Who Wants to be a...
AB InBev UK staff set to lose their jobs
08-Jan-2010 By Hamish Champ
AB InBev UK could see up to 140 staff made redundant following proposals to overhaul the business. A spokeswoman for the brewer, which produces...
07-Jan-2010 By Gemma McKenna
Scottish breweries are struggling to deliver beer during the "worst winter in almost 50 years". Yesterday locals got together in the freezing...
06-Jan-2010 By Ewan Turney
Punch is offering its tenants an incentive of up to £100 cash back on every barrel of beer they sell over an agreed target. The Winter Incentive Scheme runs from mid December until 6 March.
06-Jan-2010 By Ewan Turney
The advertising watchdog has cleared a Budweiser ad of being 'iiresponsible" under the terms of its code of practice.
CAMRA boss urges pub customers to dig deep for beer tie battle
06-Jan-2010 By Matt Eley Matt
CAMRA chief executive Mike Benner has urged pub goers to support the consumer group's bid to overturn the Office of Fair Trading's (OFT) ruling on...
Titanic celebrates treble success at CAMRA awards
06-Jan-2010 By Matt Eley Matt
Titanic brewery in Stoke-on-Trent is celebrating after picking up a hat-trick of CAMRA awards. Titanic was awarded two gold medals and a silver by...
06-Jan-2010 By Gemma McKenna
Foster's has launched a January promotion for pubs and clubs which will offer drinkers the chance to win a trip to Oz. The competition, which...
Fair Pint seeks donations from supporters
05-Jan-2010 By James Wilmore
Anti-beer tie group Fair Pint is seeking financial support from licensees to help continue its campaign. The high profile group is asking tied...
05-Jan-2010 By Gemma McKenna
The wholesale price of Guinness Draught and Guinness Red is to rise by 5.1% on 1 February, brand owner Diageo has announced. The price hike, which...
05-Jan-2010 By John Harrington
Britain's biggest brewer Heineken has announced a 4p a pint increase on the wholesale price of beer and 5p on a pint of cider. The price rise on...
05-Jan-2010 By Gemma McKenna
The Competition Appeal Tribunal has appointed the panel which will review CAMRA's appeal of its super-complaint to the OFT.
Darts winners hit the small screen
05-Jan-2010 By Robyn Lewis
The Morning Advertiser-backed John Smith's People's Darts competition nears its climax today, as the eight regional finalists take to the oche at...
05-Jan-2010 By Ewan Turney
The price of a pint of beer in pubs could rise by up to 10p following the 2.5% VAT increase and a disappointing festive season. A snapshot survey of...
04-Jan-2010 By Lesley Foottit
Celebrity chef Brian Turner has recently launched a beer named Amber Ale (4.2% abv).
24-Dec-2009 By M&C Report
Heineken, the world's third largest brewer, has acquired all the remaining debt of the Globe Pub Company and in the process made a £193m accounting...
'Arthur's Day' pushed Guinness sales in pubs to one million pints
23-Dec-2009 By Hamish Champ
The 250th anniversary celebrations of Guinness's Dublin brewery helped push daily sales of the 'Black Stuff' in UK pubs to more than a million pints....
CAMRA calls for help with beer-tie challenge
22-Dec-2009 By Matt Eley Matt
CAMRA will challenge the Office of Fair Trading's (OFT) decision not take action over its 'super-complaint' into the beer tie - and is asking pub...
22-Dec-2009 By John Harrington
Punch Taverns and Molson Coors have launched a campaign to make beer the alternative to Champagne to see in the new year. Molson Coors has produced...
21-Dec-2009 By Gemma McKenna
Diageo sold one million extra pints of Guinness in UK pubs as part of the global celebrations for Arthur's Day on 24 September. The date marked the...
17-Dec-2009 By Gemma McKenna
Heineken UK announced plans to de-list its White Lightning cider brand to reinforce its stance on responsible drinking, after attempts to improve the...
16-Dec-2009 By Lesley Foottit
Cornwall-based Healey's Cyder Farm has plans to launch an expansion across the rest of the UK in 2010. The company's Cornish Rattler Cyder (6% abv)...
Beer matching with Hook Norton: Spoilt for choice in the Cotswolds
15-Dec-2009 By Hamish Champ
Matching beer - particularly cask ale - with food to bring out the best in both is not exactly a new phenomenon. In certain quarters the exercise is...
Scores of MPs want tax break for beer
15-Dec-2009 By Matt Eley Matt
More than 120 MPs have added their names to calls for tax policy that is sympathetic to the beer industry. Political big hitters such as former...
Bompas & Parr flood building with punch
14-Dec-2009 By Claire Dodd Claire
Food architects Bompas and Parr have been at it again. After the success of their walk-in gin and tonic in May, last week saw the pair flood palatial...
Beers without the booze
14-Dec-2009
Recently on Twitter.com I was lucky enough to become the 2,000th follower The Publican's Twitter account, @ukpubs - and I won a T-shirt. The shirt...
11-Dec-2009 By Roger Protz
Opinion is divided on the latest Portman-baiting products from Scottish micro BrewDog, says Roger Protz.
10-Dec-2009 By Sonya Hook
United Biscuits has revealed a raft of activity for its bagged snacks brands for 2010, including a new addition to the McCoy's range.
Pete Brown: What a year!
10-Dec-2009
I have a confession to make: I'm writing this column while still under the influence of alcohol, after having exceeded the government's definition of...
10-Dec-2009 By Lesley Foottit
Molson Coors has teamed up with HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) to combat alcohol duty fraud.
10-Dec-2009 By John Harrington
The trade body for small businesses is to write to every would be MP urging them to back action on the beer tie.
Darling ignores calls for beer duty cut
09-Dec-2009 By James Wilmore
Chancellor Alistair Darling has ignored industry calls for a cut in beer duty in his Pre-Budget report today. However the industry can breathe a...
09-Dec-2009 By Ewan Turney
No reprieve on beer duty — that's the hammer-blow dished out by the Chancellor Alistair Darling in the Pre-Budget Report. The pub sector had hoped...
09-Dec-2009 By Lesley Foottit
London brewer Meantime is to invest £1.5m in a new brewery, which will double its brewing capacity. The new leased site, at Blackwall Lane,...
09-Dec-2009 By Lesley Foottit
The Government makes over five times more money from the sale of beer than brewers and pub companies, according to new research. Oxford Economics...
'Pubs fight back over 'beer ties'
07-Dec-2009 By Matt Eley Matt
Greedy pub companies are facing a new backlash over rip-off beer prices. Britain's pub chains - which own 25,000 locals and make £1.5billion-a-year...
04-Dec-2009 By Paul Wells
Charles Wells boss Paul Wells explains why being a tenant of a regional family brewer is that little bit different.
Publican columnist is Beer Writer of the Year
04-Dec-2009 By Matt Eley Matt
Author and Publican columnist Pete Brown was last night crowned Beer Writer of the Year at the British Guild of Beer Writers Awards. As well as...
'Supermarket under fire for selling beer at just 25p a bottle'
04-Dec-2009 By Matt Eley Matt
A supermarket giant was under fire yesterday for selling bottles of beer for just 25p. Morrisons was accused of picing alcohol at "pocket-money"...
04-Dec-2009 By MA Reporter
With the floods in Cockermouth receded, those at the Marston's-owned Jennings brewery reflect on the tumultuous past few weeks.
Pub Bitch: beer baths, Protz vs Penguins, and the return of the Turnip Prize
03-Dec-2009
Lathered in lager Forget bathing in asses' milk. When looking to pamper themselves after a hard day at the coalface, the filthy rich of Austria want...
Mark Daniels: The Myth of the £2 pint...
03-Dec-2009
If you could sell a pint for £2, would you? There often seems to be a mantra amongst landlords that if they were freed from their obligations to...
Sell More, Save More 3 Beer & Cider: Take five for success
03-Dec-2009
As the beer champion in Sell More, Save More this year, Heineken UK is proud to be sharing its in-depth knowledge and understanding of the category...
Cask ale boosts Marston's sales
03-Dec-2009
The resurgence in cask ale and innovative new food menus are driving a renewed vigour in sales across the Marston's managed estate, according to...
03-Dec-2009 By Ewan Turney
Drinks watchdog has urged pubs, clubs and shops to ban Brewdog's Tokyo Beer from sale for breaching its code of practice on responsible marketing....
03-Dec-2009 By Sonya Hook
Competition for witty ale names is high this year as brewers inject some festive fun into the on-trade. Three Sheikhs to the Wind is the quirky...
02-Dec-2009 By Lesley Foottit
Greene King has revealed its real ale offers for the Christmas season, including Abbot Reserve and Rocking Rudolph.
01-Dec-2009 By Lesley Foottit
Moorhouse's Brewery has scooped an award for being one of East Lancashire's most outstanding businesses for 2009.
Roy Beers: No minimum pricing - just maximum policing
01-Dec-2009
The min pricing saga has been on the go so long that the actual announcement has been a complete anticlimax, particularly as the SNP's political...
01-Dec-2009 By Ewan Turney
Fair Pint will support the BBPA's campaign for cuts in beer tax if pubcos commit to passing on any benefits in full to tenants.
