Magners unveils plan to halt sales decline
17-Mar-2009
Magners has set out a battle plan for its newly-formed range that it hopes will see it arrest declining sales and become a "one-stop shop for...
Pub launches "honesty pint" for trusted punters
17-Mar-2009
A pub has launched an "honesty pint" which trusts customers to pull their own pint and place the money in a box.Martin Hughes, licensee of the...
16-Mar-2009 By John Harrington
The brew is to be added to Fullers' year-round cask ale range.
16-Mar-2009 By John Harrington
Brakspear Pub Company plans to move most of its tenants onto its new longer six-year agreements that offer new discounts. Barrelage discounts of up...
Chris Maclean: Why refreshing payment isn't small beer
13-Mar-2009 By Chris Maclean
One great joys of the being a licensee is the ability, from time to time, to pay people with beer.Now before the tax and revenue people start acting...
Brewing up with Neil Morrissey
12-Mar-2009
It's not every day you get the chance to brew some beer with a couple of celebrities. But when you're doing it to further the cause of pubs then...
Desert Island Brands: Beer
12-Mar-2009
To tie in with this special beer issue The Publican has commissioned exclusive licensee research with drinks industry specialists Box Marketing to...
How much does beer tax cost you?
12-Mar-2009 By James Wilmore
On Monday (March 16) key players in the trade are due to speak to the Chancellor about the severe impact high alcohol duty is having on people...
Carling proves to be licensees choice
12-Mar-2009
Given a completely free choice licensees would stock Carling as their number one beer brand. Coors flagship lager came out on top in a Box Marketing...
EC agrees to VAT cut on pub meals
11-Mar-2009 By Matt Eley Matt
Pubs could be in line to make savings on meals after the European Commission agreed to allow member states to reduce VAT rates in a range of sectors....
Fuller's: SIBA has snubbed us
10-Mar-2009
One of the big three brewers excluded from full membership to the Society of Independent Brewers (SIBA) has labelled the decision a snub.The move to...
Coors launches 'one stop shop' for online ordering
10-Mar-2009
Coors Brewers has launched a new website to provide a "one stop shop" for freetrade customers ordering from the company.Licensees will be able to...
Brewers with a taste for publicity
09-Mar-2009
A historic country hall in Derbyshire is home to an exotic band of brewers who together are a leading member of a new wave of micros innovating and...
Comment: We're dangerously obsessed with price
09-Mar-2009
The past week has emphasised how dangerously obsessed with price we are.The trade's submissions in the run-up to the Budget are of huge importance,...
Mark Daniels: Clubcard Pints!
09-Mar-2009
Following in the business models of giant American retail corporations, who swept through US towns and decimated small businesses in the seventies...
Biggest ever Foster's promotion supports pool and poker
09-Mar-2009 By Matt Eley Matt
Scottish & Newcastle (S&N UK) is aiming to bring blokes back to the pub with its biggest ever Foster's promotion. Game On will see around...
09-Mar-2009 By Ewan Turney
The Caledonian Brewery has become the first brewer to apply for associate membership of the Society of Independent Brewers (SIBA), following changes to its membership rules.
06-Mar-2009 By John Harrington
The group also wants lower alcohol duty in its new campaign to save Welsh pubs.
06-Mar-2009 By Gemma McKenna
Scottish & Newcastle UK (S&N UK) has launched its biggest ever on-trade promotion for Fosters with 'Game On', an initiative designed to capitalise on men's passion for games.
06-Mar-2009 By Ewan Turney
Marston's, Fullers and Shepherd Neame have been excluded from full membership of the Society of Independent Brewers (SIBA) following the introduction of a 200,000 hectolitre threshold.
Sam Smith's: 10p beer rise would hit production
06-Mar-2009 By The PMA Team
Brewer Sam Smith ruled out beer price increases as a means of boosting pub revenues and chose to cut staff hours to reduce costs, an employment...
Roy Beers: Hooray for the SNP - it's giving minimum pricing to Britain
06-Mar-2009
I hope it works, even if I don't think it will make a decisive difference to Scotland's massive overall drink problem, and that it works well enough...
Three brewers forced to take new SIBA membership terms
06-Mar-2009 By James Wilmore
Three major brewers - Shepherd Neame, Marston's and Fuller's - have been excluded from full membership of the Society of Independent Brewers...
Careless talk costs pubs
06-Mar-2009 By Roger Protz
So you thought things couldn't get worse for the pub trade at the hands of the present Labour Government. Well, sit down and pour yourself a stiff...
Marston's revamps bottled Pedigree for pubs
05-Mar-2009 By Hamish Champ
Midlands brewer Marston's has unveiled a revamped version of its bottled Pedigree ale, which it hopes will help drive consumers back into pubs.The...
05-Mar-2009 By Ewan Turney
Blaming duty increases for the closure of pubs is just a smokescreen, the anti-beer tie campaign group Fair Pint has warned. The group, who want the...
04-Mar-2009 By Gemma McKenna
Marston's is marking 175 years of brewing with the launch of Pedigree's summer marketing campaign, which continues the cricketing tradition.
Adam Withrington: It is time to stop selling beer like it's perfume
04-Mar-2009
I just picked the latest issue of Marketing magazine. On its opinion page it asks four "experts" from its Marketing Society Forum whether "lager...
MacAskill "confident" over minimum pricing
04-Mar-2009 By James Wilmore
Scottish Justice Minister Kenny MacAskill remains "confident" his party's plan to set a minimum price is "sustainable" and will get legal and...
04-Mar-2009 By John Harrington
Two senior Government ministers have called on the pub industry to help struggling licensees by examining how the beer tie works. Licensing minister...
04-Mar-2009 By Ewan Turney
Miller Genuine Draft is giving drinkers in Scotland the chance to win a limited edition MP3 player loaded with live tracks. The promotion froms part...
'Labour is giving Britain a beer belly'
03-Mar-2009 By James Wilmore
More evidence that the Tories would alter the Licensing Act emerged yesterday, as a senior party figure claimed binge-drinking was "becoming the...
'Hitman Hatton joins the beer tax fight'
03-Mar-2009
Ricky Hatton tells The Sun why he backs the brewing industry's Axe The Beer Tax campaign. "I am supporting the Axe The Beer Tax, Save The Pub...
S&NPE to offer beer quality training to lessees
03-Mar-2009
Scottish & Newcastle Pub Enterprises (S&NPE) is offering beer quality training to all its new lessees, following a six month pilot...
03-Mar-2009 By Ewan Turney
Scottish proposals to introduce minimum pricing and restrict off-trade sales undermine individual judgement and accountability — the fundamentals...
Seven out of 10 say no to beer tax hikes
02-Mar-2009 By Matt Eley Matt
Seven out of 10 people are opposed to government plans to increase beer tax in the forthcoming Budget, according to an opinion poll published...
02-Mar-2009 By Ewan Turney
Over 70% of the UK population are opposed to plans to increase tax on beer in the Budget, according to a ComRes poll. The poll, carried out on behalf...
27-Feb-2009 By Roger Protz
Czech brewer Budvar has introduced a new beer to London. It's a blend of two styles, reminiscent of intriguing 1960s beer mixes, says Roger Protz.
Trade union backs Axe the Beer Tax
27-Feb-2009 By Matt Eley Matt
Trade union Unite has come out in support of the campaign to Axe the Beer Tax. In a statement, the union which represents 20,000 members in related...
26-Feb-2009 By Andrew Pring
Siba, the small brewers group, has teamed with the country's leading technical services group Innserve to provide cellar services and dispense help...
26-Feb-2009 By Robyn Lewis
Black lager is the latest offering from rebel brewer BrewDog, as it looks to capitalise on the growing interest in the company since its run-in with...
Church in bid to take over closed brewing museum
25-Feb-2009
A church is in talks with Coors about taking over the running of its closed brewing museum.The Coors visitor centre in Burton, which houses the...
24-Feb-2009 By Andrew Pring
With six weeks to go, over 4,000 pubs have enrolled for Cask Ale Week, to be held between 6-13 April. The target of 5,000 pubs should be achieved...
Local brewers' volumes soar
23-Feb-2009
The volume of beer sold by local brewers defied the overall decline of the drinks market and grew by 10 per cent in 2008, according to the Society of...
Alcoholic ginger beer launches
23-Feb-2009
Halewood International is targeting the on-trade with the launch of an alcoholic ginger beer that it hopes can capitalise on the over ice drinking...
Storm in a pint glass over black lager launches
23-Feb-2009 By Matt Eley Matt
Controversial Scottish micro BrewDog is launching what it claims is the UK's first mass-market commercially available black lager. But Budvar, a...
23-Feb-2009 By Ewan Turney
Italian beer Peroni Nastro Azzurro has teamed up with Anglo-Italian designer Antonio Berardi to create three bespoke fashion items. The items — a...
23-Feb-2009 By Ewan Turney
Adnams is bringing back its Extra Special Bitter to coincide with the launch of National Cask Ale Week. Adnams Extra was crowned the Champion Beer of...
23-Feb-2009 By John Harrington
Independent brewers continue to outperform the overall beer market, with the local brewing sector up 10% in 2008 and brewers predicting a 15% rise...
23-Feb-2009 By Ewan Turney
Work has begun on a new £700,000 bottling line at St Austell Brewery in Cornwall. The new bottling line will increase capacity to 100,000 bottles a...
