02-Aug-2007 By The PMA Team
Wales's biggest brewer and retailer, SA Brain, has reported a slowdown in growth after a very challenging year. The company has reported a drop in...
SA Brain sees profits fall in 2006
02-Aug-2007 By Hamish Champ
Despite difficult trading last year Welsh brewer SA Brain said it believed it had "continued to perform better than the market" in the year to...
Microbreweries hit by flooded pub closures
01-Aug-2007 By Eleanor Goodman
Pub closures from flooding are hitting sales at microbreweries across the country.Flooding in Central and South East England has caused over 500 pubs...
01-Aug-2007 By John Harrington
Dorset brewer Hall & Woodhouse is spending £6,000 sponsoring a campaign to stop adults buying alcohol for children in shops. The Blitz Wize...
Getting straight to the pint
01-Aug-2007
When is a pint not a pint? Phil Dixon reckons the Campaign for Real Ale is in danger of losing its head over its full-measure campaign
Back to Basics: Going extra cold
31-Jul-2007
Serving cold beer has become just as important for pubs as providing a warm welcome.Over the past few years extra cold and super-chilled lagers have...
Big Apple, Greene King?
30-Jul-2007
Beer was the furthest thing from my mind, it had to be said. It was only an hour since I had been staring open mouthed through the clouds at the...
27-Jul-2007 By John Harrington
Drinks companies are stepping up their efforts to provide drinking water.
Focus South West: give that man a Tribute
27-Jul-2007
The past 12 months have been pretty significant for Roger Ryman, head brewer at South West family brewer St Austell. Not only has he seen capacity at...
Floods: pubcos and breweries give their experiences
26-Jul-2007
Derek Andrew, managing director, Marston's Inns & Taverns: "A hundred of our pubs, across both tenanted and managed estates, have been seriously...
Pubco boss thwarts till-roll bandits
26-Jul-2007
A pub company boss has issued advice for licensees who receive payment- demands for goods they never ordered after being cold-called by a salesman....
Marston's moves to end keg losses
26-Jul-2007 By Tony Halstead THals22851@aol.com
Marston's has cut off beer supplies to a number of wholesalers in an attempt to reduce the number of kegs being lost in the supply chain. Wholesalers...
John White: beer man nonpareil
26-Jul-2007
There is only one way to commemorate the memory of a fellow beer-writer - and that is to raise a glass to him in one of his favourite hostelries. So...
Archers Brewery rescued from administration
25-Jul-2007 By Hamish Champ
Swindon's Archers Brewery has been sold by administrators PricewaterhouseCoopers to a local businessman for an undisclosed sum.PwC announced it had...
25-Jul-2007 By John Harrington
Britain's brewers are supplying tankers normally used for the transport of beer to provide safe drinking water for communities affected by the...
New font for Stella Artois launched
24-Jul-2007
InBev UK has launched a new Stella Artois font along with the roll-out of a branded chalice glass to all Artois accounts. The technically innovative...
19-Jul-2007 By Roger Protz
When, some 30 years ago, I set out to write an article about the new Ringwood Brewery, in Hampshire, the term "micro" was in its infancy. There was...
Beer nirvana
19-Jul-2007
Camra's 30th birthday celebrations are among highlights at this year's Great British Beer Festival. Adrian Tierney-Jones reports Forget high-season...
NEWS OF THE BREWS
19-Jul-2007
Newcastle Brown Ale Gateshead's Millennium Bridge is featured for the first time on a new-look label for Newcastle Brown. The limited-edition label...
Pilsner Urquell searches for Master Bartender
18-Jul-2007
Bartenders are invited to enter a Pilsner Urquell initiative that will see them compete against colleagues from across the world to be crowned a...
Premiership Preview: getting behind the brands
18-Jul-2007
Major drinks companies are once again getting behind the Premier League season, all with the aim of raising their brands' profiles among football...
Premiership Preview: not in front of the kids
18-Jul-2007
The 2007/2008 season is set to be the last time alcohol branding can be placed on children's replica football shirts, following a Portman Group...
18-Jul-2007
Heineken UK has today announced the appointment of David Forde, as the new managing director for the Dutch-brewer's UK business. David, aged 39, was...
Bols unveils bartending academy in Amsterdam
16-Jul-2007
Liqueur brand Bols has launched a purpose-built bartending academy in its home city of Amsterdam.The Bols Bartender Academy is housed in the House of...
16-Jul-2007
Old Speckled Hen has been awarded a 'Brand to Watch' accolade by the Superbrands organisation. Old Speckled Hen was selected by a panel of 20...
13-Jul-2007
Super-chef Michel Roux this year's 'Beer Drinker of the Year' and Steve Wellington, of Worthington's voted 'Brewer of the Year' - by the All-Party Parliamentary Beer Group.
Q&A: Cooley and the gang
13-Jul-2007
You predicted last year that Irish whiskey sales and the category's image in the UK would be re-invigorated over the following months. Has this...
12-Jul-2007 By Roger Protz
Does your beer taste better now that the smoking ban has arrived, asks Roger Protz?
GBBF Preview: Best of the bunch
10-Jul-2007
"Golden ale is a rapidly growing style of beer and one that will appeal to younger drinkers and women as well as real ale aficionados. It's a...
10-Jul-2007 By Ewan Turney
London-based operator Young's has reported a strong start to the year. Sales at pubs opened this year are up 15.4% and up 6.3% at existing managed...
Brakspear pubco gets a revamp
09-Jul-2007 By Hamish Champ
JT Davies has 'relaunched' the Henley-On-Thames pubco Brakspear, which it bought last year for £106m.The new-look company will be called the...
09-Jul-2007
Greene King IPA has extended its relationship with rugby union's Harlequins. The new, improved deal sees Greene King IPA move from being an official...
Global Star pubco snaps up Walsall's historic Highgate Brewery
05-Jul-2007
A little-known pubco has bought Walsall's historic Highgate Brewery. Global Star, which operates about 100 pubs in the West Mid-lands, paid an undisclosed sum to Aston Manor Brewery, the owner of Highgate.
Thwaites rises to challenges
05-Jul-2007 By The PMA Team
Northern brewer and retailer Daniel Thwaites' 200-year-anniversary celebrations have helped the group report a 9.5 % growth in profit before tax to...
Chris Maclean: Proud of my beer
05-Jul-2007 By Chris Maclean
The other night I visited a local freehouse near here. It is a nice little pub and I like the company of the landlord. It is small and clean with a...
Wholesaler focus: A quality delivery
05-Jul-2007
WAVERLEYTBS WAS formed in 2004 by Scottish & Newcastle (S&N) through the merger of two separate companies:Waverley and The Beer Seller (a...
Wholesaler focus: Supply and demand
05-Jul-2007
IT USED to be so simple. Customers came in for a pint and a fag, had a selection of perhaps three flavours of crisp and two kinds of sandwich to...
Canadian IPA mounts campaign
05-Jul-2007
A draught IPA brewed in Canada is being launched in the UK, with real-ale pubs as its main target. The 5.3% abv Sleeman's IPA is being imported by...
New plant for Woodforde's
05-Jul-2007 By Tony Halstead
Norfolk independent brewer Woodforde's is to invest £500,000 in new brewing plant to satisfy soaring demand for its cask beers. The new 60-barrel...
05-Jul-2007
The first time I met George Bateman, he took me on a tour of his brewery in Wainfleet, in Lincolnshire. The gesture was typical of the man: George...
InBrief
05-Jul-2007
Fond farewell to George Bateman A memorial service for George Gunson Bateman, JP, chairman of Batemans brewery, will be held at 1pm on Monday 23 July...
Brewing the Burton way
03-Jul-2007
It is a little known fact that Alistair Darby, managing director of Marston's Brewing Company, judges much about a person on first meeting them upon...
S&N's UK first half operating profits down
03-Jul-2007 By Hamish Champ
Scottish & Newcastle (S&N) expects its UK operating profits to be lower in the first half than last year, thanks to rising input costs, poor...
03-Jul-2007 By Graham Ridout
A little-known pubco has bought Walsall's historic Highgate Brewery. Global Star, which operates around 100 pubs in the West Midlands, paid an...
28-Jun-2007 By The PMA Team
Northern brewer and retailer Daniel Thwaites' 200-year-anniversary celebrations have helped the group report a 9.5 % growth in profit before tax to...
Glastonbury's mud, sweat and beers
28-Jun-2007
When the rain's coming down in sheets and the earth's being splattered about faster than an Olympic mud-pie fight, music lovers at the Glastonbury...
Making a meal of the beer
28-Jun-2007
Greene King kick-started the drive to encourage drinkers to match beer with food with a special brew called The Beer To Dine For. It was one of the...
The big man who saved a small brewery
28-Jun-2007
George Bateman, the brewer of 'good honest ales', has died at the age of 80. Roger Protz assesses his career and legacy George Bateman, who died on...
Caledonian Brewing Company raises £3,000 for charity
26-Jun-2007 By Eleanor Goodman
Staff at the Caledonian Brewing Company raised £3,000 for the Scottish Community Foundation by completing a 54 mile walk in just one day.Six people...
25-Jun-2007 By The PMA Team
George Bateman, the head of Lincolnshire family brewer George Bateman & Son, has died. Mr George, as he was affectionately known at the...
