'Probably' the biggest free pint giveaway ever
12-Aug-2008
Carlsberg is offering drinkers a free pint in 13,000 pubs on the August Bank Holiday weekend in what it claims is one of the biggest ever free pint...
Shepherd Neame targets younger drinkers with new beer
12-Aug-2008
Shepherd Neame used the Great British Beer Festival (GBBF) to launch a low ABV national beer brand brewed and marketed to appeal to younger drinkers...
New look for Carlsberg
12-Aug-2008
Carlsberg UK has introduced new founts and glassware for its Carlsberg and Carlsberg Extra Cold brands into 5,000 pubs nationwide.The new founts...
Second round of national advertising for Budweiser
12-Aug-2008
Budweiser has unveiled a second burst of national advertising to follow the first 'True Dedication' marketing campaign launched in April this...
11-Aug-2008 By Ewan Turney
Carlsberg is to offer beers from Welsh brewer Evan-Evans to its thousands of freetrade customers in Wales. Carlsberg has been working with the...
The duty rise is a disaster, says Wells and Young's boss
08-Aug-2008
Nigel McNally is looking vexed. This might surprise some. After all, here is a managing director who has steered a company through a tricky merger...
Corona's Mexican wave
08-Aug-2008
Every night in the week of August 11, giant walking Corona bottles will patrol around 50 bars in Edinburgh, and a bright yellow 'party bus' will...
Dusanj: "Cains was a fantastic but hard experience
08-Aug-2008 By Matt Eley Matt
One of the brothers behind Cains has said he does not know what the future holds after the Liverpool brewer and pub company went into...
CAMRA launches new book: A Beer A Day
08-Aug-2008
The Campaign for Real Ale (CAMRA) wants drinkers to try a beer a day - and has published a new book to tell them how. The book, A Beer a Day, was...
07-Aug-2008 By John Harrington
The anti-pubco campaign group hits out at claims it is "ill-informed".
Pubco giants say no to Fair Pint meeting
07-Aug-2008 By James Wilmore
The UK's two biggest pub companies have strongly rejected campaign group Fair Pint's request to meet before the parliamentary showdown over pubco...
07-Aug-2008 By Roger Protz
Craft brewers are recreating some of Britain's most interesting historical beers, says MA beer expert Roger Protz.
06-Aug-2008 By Ewan Turney
The licensee of a Polish bar has vowed to take his battle to serve beer in litres all the way to the House of Lords after being threatened with a £2,000 fine and given 28 days to switch glassware over to pints.
'Restaurant selling beer in litres to face prosecution'
06-Aug-2008
A Polish restaurant in Doncaster has been told selling its Zywiec beer in its 0.3 litre and 0.5 litre glasses is a crime. Although the restaurant has...
06-Aug-2008 By Paul Collins
A West Bromwich licensee says he could lower beer prices to as little as 21p in a bid to beat off competition — but may have to dip into his own...
Pubs are answer to binge-drinking problems, says CAMRA
05-Aug-2008 By Matt Eley Matt
The Great British Beer Festival (GBBF) was set to get underway today with the cloud of rising beer prices hanging over the industry. Scores of...
Focus South West: A decent proposal
05-Aug-2008
There comes a point when every old swinger looks in the mirror, sees those dyed locks, that gold medallion and the skin-tight trousers and realises...
Alton's Pride crowned Champion Beer of Britain
05-Aug-2008 By James Wilmore
Alton's Pride has today been named the 2008 Champion Beer of Britain at the Great British Beer Festival (GBBF). The 3.8 per cent ABV beer, brewed by...
05-Aug-2008 By Ewan Turney
Triple fff's Alton's Pride has been crowned Champion Beer of Britain at the Campaign for Real Ale's Great British Beer Festival. Alton's Pride is...
CAMRA's mission to get more to try ale
04-Aug-2008
Only one in three British drinkers have actually tried real ale, research issued today by the Campaign for Real Ale (CAMRA) shows. CAMRA also found...
'InBev hikes up price of a pint and feels Scots' wrath'
04-Aug-2008
Scotland's publicans are angry at plans by InBev to increase prices for the second time in four months. The owners of Tennent Caledonian will put 3p...
04-Aug-2008 By Ewan Turney
Just one in three Britons have tried a pint of real ale, according to new research from Camra. The research shows that just 35% of British adults who...
Volunteers gear up for Great British Beer Festival
03-Aug-2008
What do an investment banker, a teacher, an IT consultant and a bus driver have in common? They are all part of the team of volunteers who helped...
01-Aug-2008 By Roger Protz
Graham Trott's musically-themed brews are part of a major craft-brewing revolution, says MA beer expert Roger Protz.
CAMRA to protest at Great British Beer Festival
01-Aug-2008
The Great British Beer Festival (GBBF) will get underway next week with a protest by scores of Alistair Darling impersonators. Members of the...
'China setback hits SABMiller'
01-Aug-2008
Shares in SABMiller, the maker of Peroni and Pilsner Urquell beers, dropped 54p to £10.49 after the brewer said lager sales volumes fell 1.6 per...
InBev UK to raise beer prices by 3.3 per cent
01-Aug-2008 By Hamish Champ
InBev UK has blamed rising business costs for significant price rises across its draught and packaged beer product range.After a review of its...
31-Jul-2008 By Ewan Turney
InBev has announced a second price increase this year of 3.3% in the on and off-trade from 15 September. The Stella Artois brewer is blaming steep...
Roy Beers: Why pubs are becoming the licensed trade's Betamax
30-Jul-2008
This won't be a surprise to anyone who has followed the long and weary debate about whether or not the major leasing pubco players offer a deal which...
Diageo to acquire stake in Cobra Beer
30-Jul-2008
Diageo is in talks to acquire a 30 per cent stake in Cobra Beer, according to reports.The move, likely to cost Diageo around £30m, would see the...
'British pint loses its attraction', warns wine body
30-Jul-2008
Wine is replacing beer as the traditional British pint loses its attraction, according to training group the Academy of Food & Wine . And...
Asahi is a rising star
28-Jul-2008
FOR DECADES family and regional brewers, whose main interest was always in ale, also brewed lager under licence. But rather than use it as a means of...
Beer Hunter collection lives on
28-Jul-2008 By Matt Eley Matt
The contents of the office of beer expert Michael Jackson have been donated to Oxford Brookes University. The Michael Jackson Collection comprises...
Beer sales plummet in on-trade
28-Jul-2008 By James Wilmore
Beer sales in the on-trade are down 10.6 per cent since last year, according to new figures. Pubs, bars and restaurants sold 144 million less pints...
Football fan picks-up perfect prize
28-Jul-2008 By Matt Eley Matt
A football fan will be watching his team from a prime position next season and all thanks to drinking his favourite beer. David Pickup has become the...
25-Jul-2008 By Roger Protz
Flavour and character, not brand or bigness, are key qualities for western beer drinkers says beer expert Roger Protz.
Consumers tired of celeb-based marketing
25-Jul-2008
Brands should stop basing marketing campaigns around sports, music and TV stars as consumers are becoming fed up of celebrity marketing, according to...
24-Jul-2008 By The PMA Team
Carlsberg UK has begun selling Russia's number-one beer Baltika, Greek lager Mythos and Belgian beer Grimbergen, in the wake of its Scottish &...
Day in the Life: Bringing Budvar to Britain
24-Jul-2008
One of the more fascinating stories in the British beer market in the past 10 years has been that of Budvar. Perpetually cast as the underdog during...
24-Jul-2008 By Paul Collins
The poor weather and credit crunch hit on-trade lager and cider volumes but cask decline is relatively small at 1.3%
Fair Pint seeking support
23-Jul-2008 By Matt Eley Matt
Anti-beer tie campaign group Fair Pint has received backing from the Federation of Small Businesses (FSB). The group, which wants to see an end to...
Timothy Taylor marks 150 years in the trade
22-Jul-2008
The brewers of a celebrated ale have marked their 150th anniversary by looking forward to the future. Yorkshire brewers Timothy Taylor - which makes...
Finalist selected for Budweiser Brewmaster competition
22-Jul-2008
Budweiser has selected 10 finalists for its Brewmaster's Apprentice competition, which will make the winner an honourary brewmaster.At the final at...
22-Jul-2008 By Ewan Turney
Old Bear Brewery in Keighley has bought the social enterprise bottling company Re-Cap for an undisclosed sum as part of its expansion plans. Re-Cap,...
22-Jul-2008 By John Harrington
The Federation of Small Business (FSB) has given its backing to the anti-pubco Fair Pint campaign.
GBBF: Moving on up
21-Jul-2008
As a publication we can be somewhat critical and questioning of trade associations and industry bodies if they are perceived to be failing in their...
GBBF: Budvar at the festival
21-Jul-2008
It's fitting that Josef Tolar will be a lonely representative of foreign lager among English cask ale experts when he joins the Champion Beer of...
Pilsner Urquell wants commuters to take it for a ride
21-Jul-2008
Pilsner Urquell is targeting select commuters as part of its new advertising campaign. Using the findings of a You Gov poll, which revealed that 74...
Beautiful Beer rolls out glassware
18-Jul-2008
The British Beer and Pub Association, through its Beautiful Beer campaign, has launched new branded half pint glasses in a bid to sex up beer's...
Martyn Gray joins Caledonian Brewery
18-Jul-2008 By Hamish Champ
Edinburgh-based Caledonian Brewing Company has appointed ex-Scottish & Newcastle Pub Enterprises executive Martyn Gray to the newly created...
