Comment: Off her head
27-Feb-2008
Westminster councillor Audrey Lewis has a way with words akin to Vlad the Impaler's: random, needlessly destructive and dangerous.Last week the...
Row brewing over super-strength lager
26-Feb-2008
Carlsberg has hit back at a London council's bid to solve street drinking problems by taking super-strength lagers off the shelves. In Westminster 25...
26-Feb-2008 By Ewan Turney
Jygsaw Brands, the company formed to look after Scottish & Newcastle's heritage ale brands, has commenced operation
ASDA gets tough on alcohol sales
25-Feb-2008 By James Wilmore
Supermarket giant ASDA has unveiled a series of hard-hitting measures to limit access to alcohol in its stores - including a ban on post-midnight...
25-Feb-2008 By Rosie Davenport
Old Speckled Hen is to be positioned as "the not so traditional ale" in a £1.5m drive to attract a younger style-conscious crowd. Central to the...
Bucking the trend
22-Feb-2008
The current plight of the lager market has been covered in some depth on these pages over the past few weeks. One of the big issues for the market...
Some independent thinking
21-Feb-2008
Is the Society of Independent Brewers (SIBA) gaining a bigger voice in the industry?Former chairman Keith Bott raised the profile of the organisation...
North West Focus: Upbeat Moorhouse's bucks the depressing trend
21-Feb-2008
Last month, as I waded through the depressing pile of New Year press releases and statements all warning of ill-fortune for brewing, an email caught...
Reaction to Tesco's move on alcohol prices
21-Feb-2008
Why not add your voice to the debate? Click on the link to the right and have your say...Andy Bond, CEO of ASDA "We are already talking to government...
Tesco move to raise alcohol prices welcomed by trade
21-Feb-2008
Tesco's proposal to ban alcohol promotions has been welcomed by the pub trade and campaigners alike - and thrown down the gauntlet to other...
'Tesco wants ministers to ban cheap alcohol'
21-Feb-2008
Supermarket giant Tesco will today break ranks and call on the government to ban the sale of cut-price alcohol. The move comes amid growing outcry...
Tesco: we WANT a ban on cut-price booze
21-Feb-2008
Tesco has laid down the gauntlet to the other supermarkets with an announcement that it is actively calling for a law banning the sale of cut-price...
21-Feb-2008 By Ewan Turney
The Association of Licensed Multiple Retailers has slammed Tesco for ducking its responsibilities
Right track for Winner's Tipple
21-Feb-2008
John Smith's has reinforced its sponsorship of horse racing's biggest race with the launch of a new limited- edition ale. Winner's Tipple, which was...
21-Feb-2008 By Roger Protz
Beer expert Roger Protz considers why bad pub news is better than good pub news
CaskForce winners unveiled
21-Feb-2008
Marston's has announced the first tranche of winners in its innovative CaskForce initiative. Run in conjunction with the Morning Advertiser, and...
21-Feb-2008
CaskForce, the beer-quality initiative driven by Marston's in conjunction with the Morning Advertiser announces its first monthly winners. After...
Charming the trade
20-Feb-2008
The last time I saw Adrian McKeon he got stung for forty quid. The details are not important but let's just say he'll never offer to buy anyone a...
Heineken reports record growth in 2007
20-Feb-2008 By Hamish Champ
As it prepares to take on Scottish & Newcastle's UK beer operations Dutch brewer Heineken said it achieved "record" organic growth in 2007....
'Price of pint to hit £4'
20-Feb-2008
The average price of a pint of beer is likely to hit the £4 mark, the drinks industry said yesterday. It blamed an "unprecedented" rise in...
20-Feb-2008 By Ewan Turney
Heineken is third brewer in two days to warn beer prices are set to rocket
20-Feb-2008
Marston's Inns and Taverns managers Ashley and Carol Cooper have won a trip to New Zealand to watch England play cricket. The managers of the...
19-Feb-2008 By Ewan Turney
A second brewer has warned of beer price rises in all markets following an increase in the cost of raw materials
Scottish & Newcastle's beer prices set to rocket
19-Feb-2008 By Hamish Champ
In its last results presentation as an independent company, brewer Scottish & Newcastle (S&N) has reported flat profits and warned of...
19-Feb-2008 By Ewan Turney
Revenue at Scottish & Newcastle (S&N) was up 7.9% on last year to £4,150m - chiefly driven by "outstanding" results at Baltic Beverage...
NEWS OF THE BREWS
14-Feb-2008
Acorn Brewery Yorkshire's Acorn Brewery has announced details of the single-hopped US ales it will be showcasing throughout 2008. Introduced in...
14-Feb-2008 By Noli Dinkovski
InBev UK is to replace Bock Artois with an oak-aged lager made from an original continental recipe, the MA can reveal. Eiken Artois - the first in a...
14-Feb-2008 By Ewan Turney
Tax increases on beer have been "self defeating" and have actually eroded Treasury revenues
14-Feb-2008 By Roger Protz
Beer writer Roger Protz says the media should have made more of the SIBA report on soaring cask sales
Neame calls for fairer beer tax
14-Feb-2008
Shepherd Neame chief executive Jonathan Neame has called for fairer treatment of beer in the Budget. Speaking in a Radio Four debate on You and...
Comment: Proud of beer
13-Feb-2008
At this time of year people's minds turn towards the Budget. Brewers live in hope of a fair deal for beer, but fear continuation of existing...
Calm before the storm
13-Feb-2008
On March 12 Chancellor Alistair Darling will step out of Number 11 Downing Street clutching a small red briefcase containing his first Budget as...
12-Feb-2008 By Tony Halstead
The Campaign For Real Ale is calling for a 1p cut in beer duty to help get drinkers back into local community pubs
S&N to close Berkshire brewery
12-Feb-2008
More than 350 staff at Scottish & Newcastle's (S&N) Berkshire brewery stand to lose their jobs following today's announcement that the group...
'Licensee barred from selling beer by landlord'
10-Feb-2008
A pub landlord has been barred from serving beer by a brewery (sic). Graham Smith, 51, and wife Carole, 50, owe Punch Taverns £4,800 in rent. And...
08-Feb-2008 By Ewan Turney
Freedom For Pubs Association frontman Mike Bell attacked the beer tie live on Radio 4 earlier today. Speaking on the You and Yours programme Bell...
SIBA reports volume growth
07-Feb-2008
Microbrewers enjoyed growth in sales of almost 11 per cent in 2007, according to the Local Beer Report 2008 published this week by the Society of...
Pub goes on strike after beer prices rise
07-Feb-2008
A licensee has closed the doors of his century-old pub in protest at rising beer prices from Marston's.Carl Sherratt of The Poacher, in Bolton,...
07-Feb-2008 By Roger Protz
Beer writer Roger Protz considers the church wading in to the booze debate
BBPA: trade needs freeze on beer duty
07-Feb-2008 By Ewan Turney ewan.turney@william-reed.co.uk
A trade body has called for a freeze on beer duty to help brewers and pubs deal with the "perfect storm" of declining sales, rising input costs and...
In search of a hangover cure
06-Feb-2008
ALIBI IS boldly branded the world¹s first 'pre-tox' drink. It is designed, according to its producers, to "prepare the body and process toxins,...
Roy Beers: A Minister intent on mixing it with the Scottish pub trade
06-Feb-2008
Publicans and trade groups were happy when he was making plenty of bellicose statements about tackling deep-discounting in the off-trade - and about...
05-Feb-2008 By Ewan Turney
Beatles album-cover artist Sir Peter Blake has designed a new label for Cains Finest Lager. Blake, dubbed the "godfather of pop art", designed the...
04-Feb-2008
Heineken is rolling out a new line-up of rugby-themed point-of-sale material in the lead-up to the Heineken Cup Final in May. At the heart of the POS...
04-Feb-2008 By Ewan Turney
Brewers and pubs face the perfect storm of rising costs and smoke ban
01-Feb-2008 By Noli Dinkovski
Guinness plans to spend £3m on its St Patrick's Day campaign
Heineken's hopes for the future
31-Jan-2008 By The PMA Team
As Carlsberg and Heineken buy S&N, Heineken chief executive Jean-François van Boxmeer reveals his plans Heineken chief executive Jean-François...
Cask Beer: The market under the microscope
31-Jan-2008
If you speak to anyone in the cask ale industry, be they brewer, marketeer or managing director, they are more positive now than they have been for...
Cask Beer: Moving on up
31-Jan-2008
Lat month I revealed a love of American political jargon. I suggested that the beer market needed some Barack Obama-style 'bounce' Well here's...
JW Lees unveils new seasonal cask range
31-Jan-2008
JW Lees is launching three new cask beers and has revealed plans to introduce a full range of seasonal and special occasion beers for the first time,...
