26-Sep-2008 By Ewan Turney
Welsh brewer Brains is to sponsor the Celtic Crusaders rugby league team, which will enter the Super League next year. The Celtic Crusaders will play...
25-Sep-2008 By Roger Protz
Quality-focused licensee Bryan Walsh has just been named Fuller's Master Cellarman of the Year.
25-Sep-2008 By Ewan Turney
The Federation of Small Businesses has called for the beer tie to be scrapped after taking a survey of its pub members — a whopping 94% said they believed the tie must be broken.
Pubcos absorb brewers' price hikes
25-Sep-2008
Major pub companies are pulling out the stops to help struggling licensees by absorbing the price hikes from brewers. Admiral Taverns and Punch...
Beer tie opposition mounts
25-Sep-2008 By James Wilmore
More than nine out of 10 licensees want an end to the beer tie, according to a new poll. With only a few days left to submit evidence to the second...
25-Sep-2008 By Jessica Harvey
Anheuser Busch has revealed details of its partnership with Pitcher & Piano in the UK to promote the Estrella Damm brand.
Drinks companies prepare for Christmas
24-Sep-2008
Drinks companies are gearing up for major above-the-line advertising campaigns and in-pub initiatives in the run-up to Christmas.In a £35m Christmas...
Opinion: Look at the bigger picture for beer
23-Sep-2008
The latest Good Beer Guide has had a bigger impact in the media than usual this year. And with the double whammy of pub closures and falling beer...
For your aisles only
23-Sep-2008
In the leisure industry there is something of a tradition of the out-of-home environment being the focal point for new product launches and...
23-Sep-2008 By John Harrington
Jubilant licensees Nigel and Tee Maud have won their rent for the year after being crowned overall winners in Marston's CaskForce beer quality scheme.
22-Sep-2008 By The PMA Team
The British Beer and Pub Association is to launch a campaign aimed at axeing Government plans to increase beer tax for the next four years.
19-Sep-2008 By Roger Protz
The launch of the Good Beer Guide has fanned further debate about the smoke ban.
Jobs to go at Wells and Young's
18-Sep-2008 By Matt Eley Matt
Around 15 jobs look set to go at the Wells and Young's brewery in Bedford. A statement from the company confirmed it has entered "into consultation...
Skull Splitter facing Portman Group Probe
18-Sep-2008 By Matt Eley Matt
An award-winning beer could be axed because of fears its Viking branded bottles have an aggressive theme. A report commissioned by drinks watchdog...
Beer challenge at Thornbridge nears conclusion
17-Sep-2008
Katipo has become the fourth and final beer to be launched by Derbyshire brewery Thornbridge in a scheme which challenged its four brewers to each...
Students to receive education at beer festivals
17-Sep-2008 By Matt Eley Matt
A small pubco is holding a beer festival to educate students about the delights of real ale. The Head of Steam pubs in Newcastle and Huddersfield...
Bottled Beer: The case for specialities
16-Sep-2008
You only have to look at the growth of boutique music festivals, locally sourced food and even organic clothing to see that consumer demand for...
Bottled Beer: Advice on stocking your fridges from those who know
16-Sep-2008
Need more advice on how to stock your fridge? Scottish & Newcastle (S&N) has launched www.planyourfridge.com, a web service available to all...
Bottled Beer: Bottles blaze a trail for Cobra
16-Sep-2008
When The Publican last spoke to Cobra, conquering draught was very much in the beer company's sights. "It is very important when you consider that...
Stolen beer kegs recovered in police raid
16-Sep-2008
Beer kegs were among material taken away from a scrap yard in the Midlands following what police described as "Britain's biggest ever seizure of...
'Beer and wine can lower a man's fertility'
16-Sep-2008
Brown ale and red wine, along with coffee and brazil nuts, may lower sperm counts. The drinks contain particularly high levels of phytoestrogens,...
15-Sep-2008 By Ewan Turney
If the beer tie is not broken, communities will lose their pubs for good — that was the stark message from Fair Pint campaigners on the Tonight programme examining pub closures.
Good Beer Guide praises green brewers
15-Sep-2008
The 2009 edition of the CAMRA Good Beer Guide has praised the increasing number of brewers adopting energy-efficient practices.Good Beer Guide editor...
Going Dutch
15-Sep-2008
In the Grolsch brewery, in Enschede, a two-hour drive east of Amsterdam, there is a giant snaking gangway that stretches the length of the building....
How to organise a beer festival
15-Sep-2008
Jeremy Westcott is the licensee of the Bell in Buckland Dinham, Somerset. The pub holds a number of beer, cider, music and even tobacco festivals...
Coors "cold-activated" bottles launched for on-trade
15-Sep-2008
Coors has launched on-trade only bottles of Coors Light featuring "cold-activated" thermochromic ink.A new burst of advertising activity is based...
'The £4 pint looms'
14-Sep-2008
Breweries are raising beer prices for the second time this year, leading to the £4 pint. The companies blame an 'unprecedented' rise in the price of...
12-Sep-2008 By Ewan Turney
Britain now has more breweries than before the Second World War as consumers ditch mass produced lagers in favour of local brews, according to the Good Beer Guide 2009.
CAMRA hails boom in British breweries
12-Sep-2008 By Matt Eley Matt
There are now more breweries in Britain than at any time since the Second World War, according to the latest edition of the Campaign for Real Ale...
12-Sep-2008 By Tony Halstead
Northern brewer Daniel Thwaites is celebrating a remarkable 90% uplift in sales after deciding to change the name of its traditional mild. The...
11-Sep-2008 By MA Editorial
After Welsh actor and writer Terry Jones' agent revealed that the Monty Python star died on 22 January at the age of 77, MA looks back at a conversation from 2008 encapsulating CAMRA member Jones' love of beer and brewing.
11-Sep-2008 By Roger Protz
Demand is high for the training courses run by the Brewers' Laboratory.
'Pub lorry gives the Queen 2,000 lagers'
11-Sep-2008
Twelve barrels of lager were mistakenly delivered to the Queen instead of a pub called Windsor Castle, five miles away in Maidenhead. Royal staff...
Sixty beer awards for CaskForce pubs
11-Sep-2008
The Black Horse in Nuthurst, West Sussex, has become the 60th pub to receive a Beautiful Beer Gold Award through the Marston's CaskForce initiative....
CAMRA calls for minimum pricing
11-Sep-2008 By Matt Eley Matt
Minimum pricing should be introduced to reduce the gap between supermarket and pub prices, according to the Campaign for Real Ale (CAMRA). The...
11-Sep-2008 By Tony Jennings
In Europe, brew masters in traditional breweries are regarded with an awe bordering on reverence. An almost papal authority is attached to their...
11-Sep-2008 By Ewan Turney
Asda will stop selling any beers or cider that offer "extra free" in Scotland from 30 September. The supermarket giant has taken the step to remove...
Mark Daniels: Real Ale - its not for men
10-Sep-2008
Every day I seem to be opening up a newspaper or visiting a web page or listening to the radio, only to hear more and more doom and gloom about our...
'SABMiller and InBev tipped to target Cobra'
10-Sep-2008
Cobra Beer is being tipped as a potential bid target for bigger rivals including SABMiller and InBev, following the collapse of talks with Diageo,...
Profit from Beer
09-Sep-2008
Remember how you felt when your dad told you it was time the stabilisers came off your bike? In a function room above a pub in Slough it was just...
£2m support for Newcastle Brown, McEwan's and Scrumpy Jack
09-Sep-2008
A £2m marketing support package has been placed behind Newcastle Brown Ale, McEwan's, Youngers, Newcastle Exhibition, Woodpecker and Scrumpy Jack.It...
Profit from premium products at major Publican event
05-Sep-2008
When the stellar line-up of speakers takes to the stage at the Premium Innovation conference at London's Commonwealth Club on Tuesday, September 30,...
05-Sep-2008 By Roger Protz
Closed pubs are just one tangible face of the damage done by the Beer Orders.
Kronenbourg 'knives and bubbles' ad is cleared
04-Sep-2008 By MA reporter
The Advertising Standards Authority dismissed claims that the ad is linked with violence and aggressive behaviour.
04-Sep-2008 By John Harrington
Trials have taken place at Tesco but an on-trade launch is not ruled out.
Beer tie winners and losers
04-Sep-2008
TO SAY that the current scrutiny of the beer tie has the potential to make dramatic differences to the way brewers supply pubs is something of an...
Pubs caught out over cancelled Carlsberg promotion
04-Sep-2008 By James Wilmore
A licensee was forced to hand out free pints to angry customers after Carlsberg cancelled a high-profile giveaway promotion with a national...
Punch boss wants "quick and decisive" BEC review
03-Sep-2008 By Matt Eley Matt
Punch Taverns owns 7,560 pubs across the country. The vast majority of licensees running those pubs are 'tied' to the pubco. Here leased division...
Pubco bosses defend the beer tie
02-Sep-2008 By Matt Eley Matt
Pubco bosses have launched a staunch defence of the beer tie in the first in a new series of Publican Special Reports. In two in-depth interviews,...
John Nicolson to head Heineken Americas operation
02-Sep-2008 By Hamish Champ
Heineken has announced the appointment of John Nicolson, former Scottish & Newcastle (S&N) Eastern European boss, as head of Heineken's...
