A Brew to be Proud of
21-Jun-2007
There's more to making a decent cask ale than most pub-goers realise.A lot more - and doesn't The Publican team know it!We travelled to Leicester to...
21-Jun-2007 By Roger Protz
Hawk-eyed readers may recall that I wrote recently about beer and pubs living in two parallel universes. There's one inhabited by the global brewers...
19-Jun-2007 By John Harrington
Portman Group announces new rules
Beer deals compared to washing-up liquid
19-Jun-2007 By James Wilmore
A senior pubco figure has hit out at a claim that the way people buy beer from supermarkets, and the rate they consume it, can be compared to...
Amstel focuses on laid-back drinking
19-Jun-2007
Amstel is to launch a new marketing campaign that aims to help Britain experience the laid-back drinking culture of Amsterdam and promises...
Cellar to Glass: line cleaning
15-Jun-2007
Attend any cellar management course and one of the lessons that will be driven home to you over and over again is that you must clean your beer lines...
Cellar to Glass: plastic casks
15-Jun-2007
The crisis at Trenstar has highlighted once again one of the most intractable problems facing the pub and brewing industries.Theft of stainless steel...
Cellar to Glass: the surgery's open!
15-Jun-2007
Tech services have been brought into the 21st century with the launch of a trouble-shooting beer quality website for publicans.By logging onto...
Cellar to Glass: the perfect pub?
15-Jun-2007
There's one sure-fire way for a company supplying the pub trade to prove wrong licensee critics who say they don't understand their livelihoods....
14-Jun-2007 By Rosie Davenport
Diageo has pulled the plug on its Quinn's RTD, launched just last year with an £8.5m marketing spend. The company's new head of innovation, Liz...
Remembering Claude Arkell
14-Jun-2007
Donnington has the deserved reputation of enjoying the loveliest setting of any brewery in the country. It's in the Cotswolds, an area of gently...
Ale safe
14-Jun-2007
Everards tenant Phil Jones tells Ewan Turney how a passion for real ale has helped increase turnover 30% in three months at the Black Horse,...
Q&A: Bringing in Bavaria
11-Jun-2007
Bavaria is typical of a European brewer that is successful in its home market but relatively unheard of in the UK. How do you go about breaking in...
New Coors ale in Scottish market
07-Jun-2007
Coor Brewers is set to take on the established heavyweights of the Scottish ale market with the surprise launch this summer of Maclachlan's Best, a...
Adios to a reformed puffer who never finished a pint
07-Jun-2007
As Tony Blair's 10-year tenure nears its end, Adam Edwards ponders the PM's legacy and wonders what the drinks industry will remember him for - apart...
NEWS OF THE BREWS
07-Jun-2007
Thwaites Northern brewer Daniel Thwaites is continuing its drive to promote cask ales by encouraging pubs and bars to host mini-beer festivals during...
Heineken shows its Continental roots with new ad campaign
07-Jun-2007 By Rosie Davenport rosie.davenport@william-reed.co.u
Heineken is putting its Continental roots at the heart of a campaign that includes the roll-out of a new dispense system for the beer. The brewer...
The mysterious birth of lager
07-Jun-2007
What precisely is lager? It may seem a curious question to ask, as most of the world drinks lager. Even in Britain, with its great ale heritage,...
Future of Tetley's brewery in doubt
05-Jun-2007 By Hamish Champ
Leeds City Council has denied putting pressure on Carlsberg UK to vacate its historic Tetley brewery site in the centre of the city.The council said...
04-Jun-2007 By Iain O'Neil
Heineken UK announced today full details of its new multi-million pound marketing campaign and the launch of 'Continental Draught'. Heineken hopes...
Under the Microscope: Stately home brew
01-Jun-2007
Back in the sepia-hued olden days, landed gentry often had a brewery within the grounds of their country mansions. Drinking one's own beer was as...
31-May-2007 By Roger Protz
Is the BBC's Panorama losing its touch? Six months have gone by and it hasn't had a programme about binge drinking that proves Britain is going down the pan and up the spout at the same time.
31-May-2007
Anheuser-Busch (A-B) has signed a deal to keep Budweiser as the official beer of the FA Premier League until 2010.
Food sales boost Young's results
31-May-2007 By Hamish Champ
A hike in food sales across Young & Co's managed estate helped offset a loss in turnover from the group's brewery operations following the sale...
Brewers swap ale for port
31-May-2007
The nation's family brewers are a pretty competitive lot, but never more so than when it comes to their annual regatta at Cowes. Bragging rights for...
29 John Grogan chairman, All-Party Parliamentary Beer Group (43) Robert Humphreys secretary, All-Party Parliamentary Beer Group (43)
31-May-2007
Why they are on the list: Selby Labour MP John Grogan continues to provide the industry with a vital voice at Westminster where he has proved a...
19 Rob Hayward chief executive, British Beer & Pub Association (19) Nick Bish chief executive, Association of Licensed Multiple Retailers (19) Mark Hastings director of communications, British Beer & Pub Association (new entry)
31-May-2007
Why they are on the list: Bish and Hayward remain two of the trade's key lobbyists and there's been no let up in their activity over the past year....
Little brand made good
30-May-2007
It might surprise many to know that the most widely talked about cask beer brand right now is not one of the big regional brewers' beers. Nor is it...
Back To Basics: Cellar Management
30-May-2007
WHEN IT comes to qualifications to run a pub, the Award in Beer Cellar Quality (ABCQ) must be one of the strongest. The nationally-recognised...
Roll out the barrel…
30-May-2007
FACT: BEER sales in the UK on-trade are in decline. There, now we've got that out of the way, we can get on with trying to address the issue.Key to...
Reassurance needed
30-May-2007
THE PUBCO boss points at the fonts for Stella Artois, Artois Bock and Peeterman Artois, InBev's 'famille Artois', in one of his pubs. "What are they?...
Across The Bar
30-May-2007
WHETHER A major national pubco or an innovative regional operator, it is the pubs themselves who are really at the sharp end when it comes to feeling...
Cold comfort
30-May-2007
There can be little doubt of the biggest story in lager in recent years: the extra cold revolution. Even outside of lager, everywhere you look there...
North East Focus: Black Sheep
30-May-2007
It might surprise many to know that the most widely talked about cask beer brand right now is not one of the big regional brewers' beers. Nor is it...
Mystery of disappearing Hoegaarden
30-May-2007
Mystery sourrounds the growing shortage of Belgian wheat beer Hoegaarden in the UK.Disgruntled licensees have told The Publican that deliveries of...
29-May-2007 By The PMA Team
The European Beer Consumers Union (EBCU) has slammed moves by the Czech government to sell its stake in Budweiser Budvar
25-May-2007 By John Harrington
Wells & Youngs plans to outsource its distribution to Kuehne + Nagel Drinks Logistics (KNDL) for southern England.
Bud renews Premier League sponsorship
25-May-2007
Budweiser has announced it is renewing its sponsorship of the Premier League.The worldwide deal will commence on June 1 and has been extended to...
Wells taps into beer portfolio
24-May-2007 By The PMA Team
Charles Wells Pub Company is capitalising on access to an enhanced beer portfolio by launching a "speciality beer house" in partnership with one of...
24-May-2007 By The PMA Team
Charles Wells Pub Company is capitalising on access to an enhanced beer portfolio by launching a "speciality beer house" in partnership with one of...
Getting your beer on the state
24-May-2007
The recent suggestion by John Grogan MP that we should celebrate next year the defeat of the 1908 Licensing Bill to nationalise the brewing industry...
21-May-2007
Scottish & Newcastle is putting £7m behind this year's 'Biggest Round' initiative - where it buys punters an S&N brand drink to try. It aims...
17-May-2007 By Roger Protz
During my first visit to Liverpool for a few years, I found the city not only spruced up in preparation for its Year of Culture in 2008, but also...
17-May-2007 By Peter Coulson
There's a great vogue at present for "naming and shaming" in many different areas - food hygiene, polluters, rogue traders and so forth. All this is...
Cains Brewery takes over Honeycombe
17-May-2007 By Andrew Pring andrew.pring@william-reed.co.uk
Five years after buying Cains, the ambitious Asian brothers Sudarghara and Ajmail Dusanj have agreed a reverse takeover of pub operator Honeycombe...
Bud Silver bites the bullet
17-May-2007 By Rosie Davenport rosie.davenport@william-reed.co.u
Anheuser-Busch has been forced to axe Bud Silver - its first foray into the standard lager market - after sales failed to reach the company's...
Abbott is well rewarded
16-May-2007
Anyone who reads my comments regularly will have noticed that I've been bellyaching recently. Sometimes you need something to remind you what a joy...
'Supermarket prices encourage drinking at home'
16-May-2007
Deep discounting by supermarkets is encouraging more people to drink at home, says a new report by consumer analysts Mintel. It claims the in-home...
15-May-2007 By The PMA Team
Archers Brewery has been placed into administration. Archers, which is based in the Great Western Railway locomotive works in Swindon, is a brewer of...
What next for Kumala?
15-May-2007
While many South African winemakers would find this statement hard to swallow, it really does seem that Kumala is the lifeblood of South African...
