Beer

Great British beer pulls in the crowds

11-Aug-2005

The press office at Olympia, site of last week's Great British Beer Festival, has a balcony that is a first-floor eyrie, with a commanding view of...

Record numbers pulled in by the taste of real ale

11-Aug-2005

by MA Reporter The Campaign for Real Ale's Great British Beer Festival saw a record 47,000 visitors at London's Olympia last week. This is an...

Organic nettle beer launched by H&W

11-Aug-2005

A new organic nettle beer, brewed to be enjoyed with a range of dishes, has been unveiled by Dorset brewer Hall & Woodhouse. Stinger made its...

New products

11-Aug-2005

Wychwood Brewery brought its new limited-edition ale to the GBBF a 4.2% abv fruity ale called Battle Axe. Wychwood's head brewer Jeremy Moss said: 'I...

Licensees missing out on imported lager, says NOFIBS

10-Aug-2005

Licensees are missing out on a big opportunity to increase their margins with genuine imported lager.Six out of ten (61 per cent) premium lager...

Badger has a sting in the tail

04-Aug-2005

Dorset brewer Hall & Woodhouse has teamed up with TV chef Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall to produce a new premium ale made with nettles harvested...

Greene King shrugs off GBBF criticism

04-Aug-2005

Greene King has shrugged off criticism it received at the Great British Beer Festival following its decision to close the Ridley's brewery.At the...

Scot turns IPA origins on their head

04-Aug-2005

Is it time to re-evaluate the origins of two 19th-century beer styles, India Pale Ale and Pale Ale? One veteran Scottish brewer, who has just...

How important are real ales to your business?

04-Aug-2005

John Royce Kestor Inn Newton Abbot Devon 'They are very important to us, mainly because people drink them! We have three main ales on and we like to...

Beer and Food - A Taste of Dorset

01-Aug-2005 By Susan Nowak

Susan Nowak reports on a beer and food initiative run by the West Country's Badger Brewery in partnership with small producers in Dorset. Badger...

Avanti report points to new future for drinks advertising

29-Jul-2005

Drinks advertisers are turning away from TV commercials in favour of promoting their brands on pub and bar plasma screens, according to a new...

Carlsberg to inject £11m into Tetley

28-Jul-2005

Carlsberg UK is investing more than £11m in its Tetley's ale brand over the next year.New fonts have been designed for both Tetley's Smoothflow and...

Sheps secures deal to brew Asahi Super Dry

28-Jul-2005

by The PMA Team Shepherd Neame has signed an agreement with Asahi Breweries to brew the number-one Japan-ese beer Asahi Super Dry under licence for...

Unite behind the GBBF... and London

28-Jul-2005

T here were many fine messages of support for London following the 7 July terrorist atrocity, but the most poignant was a one-sentence letter in The...

Stephen Crawley Caledonian

28-Jul-2005

The Caledonian Brewery in Edinburgh is another that has passed through multiple owners. It was founded in 1869 by George Lorimer and Robert Clark and...

Sudarghara Dusanj Cains

28-Jul-2005

The Robert Cain brewery is back with the name it had in the 19th-century, but the magnificent Victorian building in Liverpool is on its seventh set...

Sue Thomas-Taylor

28-Jul-2005

Greene King In the past few months Greene King IPA has overtaken Tetley's bitter to be the UK's best-selling standard cask ale, another triumph for...

Nigel McNally

28-Jul-2005

Charles Wells If cask ale is the quintessential English drink, then Charles Wells has been very clever in associating its Bombardier cask bitter with...

Mark Woodhouse

28-Jul-2005

Hall & Woodhouse Hall & Woodhouse has just announced it wants to build a new brewery in Blandford St Mary, its Dorset home. Not so much...

SABMiller pumps £30m in speciality beer drive

28-Jul-2005

by John Harrington SABMiller is setting its sights on the speciality beers market as it looks to bring new beers from its global portfolio to the UK....

Rupert Thompson

28-Jul-2005

Refresh UK The story of Brakspear's may be unique in the long history of the British brewing industry because of the mothballing and subsequent...

Richard Everard Everards

28-Jul-2005

Everards was one of the few regional family brewers to give up completely on cask ale in the early 1970s: the rise of the real-ale movement persuaded...

Pubs must focus on ale quality say top brewers

28-Jul-2005

by Rosie Davenport Pubs need to put more focus on serving quality ale in peak condition to attract new customers and increase prices. That's the...

Let hosts be part of

28-Jul-2005

the deals on wheels Guest beers on trains are one thing, says The Daily Telegraph's pub writer ADAM EDWARDS, but what the networks really need is...

Jonathan Neame Shepherd Neame

28-Jul-2005

Shepherd Neame, which fights with Young & Co of Wandsworth for the title of Britain's oldest surviving brewer, exhibited a perfect example of the...

John Roberts Fuller's

28-Jul-2005

Fuller, Smith & Turner has gone from a company that was, 50 years ago, the butt of a distinctly unflattering nickname from Londoners...

Jaclyn Bateman Batemans

28-Jul-2005

Batemans brewery, in the Lincolnshire village of Wainfleet All Saints, nearly went the drainwards way of hundreds of other small brewers when, in the...

Fergus McMullen McMullen

28-Jul-2005

McMullen & Sons has had its wobbles in the past few years, with some family members deciding, just as they have at other regional brewers, that...

Figures show UK drinkers favour beer over wine

28-Jul-2005

I was interested to read the article 'Wine pips beer as top tipple: survey in your issue of 14 July. The article claims that 'three-quarters of...

German group to build new Adnams brewery

28-Jul-2005

by John Harrington Suffolk brewer Adnams has appointed a German brewhouse manufacturer as part of a £3.8m plan to modernise its brewery. Huppmann...

Great for beer

28-Jul-2005

Now that some of Britain's leading brewers have made their pitches about the future of beer, it's your turn to see whether they can live up to their...

Andy Wood Adnams

28-Jul-2005

For a company with only 85 tied outlets, Adnams punches well above its weight. This is, in large part, because it is one of a tiny group of local...

Alistair Darby

28-Jul-2005

Wolverhampton & Dudley Alistair Darby, managing director of W&D Brands, the brewing arm of Wolverhampton & Dudley Breweries, took up his...

A recipe for success

28-Jul-2005

The fantastic opportunities offered by speciality beers have been highlighted at the latest Masterclass demonstration held at The Garrison Hotel in...

Are these the saviours of ale?

28-Jul-2005

As sales of cask beer continue to fall more brewers, most recently Ridley's, have decided to call it a day. But what does the future really hold?...

Brian Jenkins Daniel Thwaites

28-Jul-2005

Daniel Thwaites will be celebrating its bicentenary in two years, by which time awareness of its cask ales should be spreading out from its northwest...

Sheps to brew Asahi Super Dry

26-Jul-2005

Shepherd Neame has signed a deal to brew Japanese lager Asahi Super Dry under licence for the UK market.The agreement will see the brand brewed and...

Gold is the new Best for Badger

21-Jul-2005

Dorset brewer Hall & Woodhouse (H&W) has lined up a new flagship ale to take over from Badger Best.Badger First Gold represents a radical...

Daringly different

21-Jul-2005

Adventurous drinkers are driving growth in the speciality beer market no wonder the big brewers are scrambling to get in on the act. Jo de Mille...

Belhaven beer volumes up 6%

21-Jul-2005

Scottish brewer Belhaven has reported strong sales growth, with beer volumes up by around 6% since the end of the last financial year on 3 April. At...

At last, summer's here to turn

21-Jul-2005

up the heat on beer volumes By Tony Halstead Soaring July temperatures have seen brewers step up beer production to meet extra demand from pubs...

Guess who'll miss the boat on cask?

21-Jul-2005

The Morning Advertiser offered a fine example of 'parallel universes last week on page 8. There was I appealing to Greene King to keep open Ridley's...

May the best brew

21-Jul-2005

win Beers from around 50 nations will go head-to-head in Munich for the coveted Brewing Industry International Awards 2005. Events director John Bass...

On draught or in bottles?

21-Jul-2005

Once a supplier has managed to secure a listing, there is still a debate over whether the beer should be positioned in draught format on the bar or...

Trade anger at 45p supermarket pint

21-Jul-2005

Trade leaders fear that the latest round of price cuts by supermarkets may fuel a rise in summer street drinking, resulting in behavioural problems...

Vue Kriek tap trial

21-Jul-2005

Interbrew is trialling a draught version of its Belle-Vue Kriek fruit beer in selected London pubs that 'are serious about special beers, including...

In session... with Ben McFarland

20-Jul-2005

Disillusioned with numerous run-of-the-mill beer competitions and under siege from uninvited visitors in his garden, Ben McFarland dons his white...

GBBF preview: Champion beer

14-Jul-2005

Kelham Island Brewery's 2004 success escalated demand, but how did it cope?Last year, Kelham Island Brewery, a small producer from Sheffield walked...

Wine pips beer as

14-Jul-2005

top tipple: survey by John Harrington Wine has pipped beer as the favourite choice among British drinkers, according to a new survey. The study from...

'Breweries will close' as cask volumes drop

14-Jul-2005

by Graham Ridout Analyst AC Nielsen has painted one of the gloomiest pictures ever about the state of the cask-ale market. Its report on cask volumes...

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