The challenges ahead
24-Mar-2005
If Jonathan Adnams faces big new challenges next year, so too does his personable anointed successor Andy Wood. Currently sales and marketing...
USP is key in premium market
24-Mar-2005
With a cluttered premium draught market and key supply contracts with Greene King and Mitchells & Butlers up for grabs this year, it's an...
Young guns hold sway in Oz
17-Mar-2005
The Brits now drink 38% of all the wine exported from Australia, so says the Australian Bureau of Statistics. How much wine is that, exactly? We...
OFT urged to look into beer price and supply
17-Mar-2005
by Ewan Turney The Competitions Commission (CC) has suggested that the Office of Fair Trading should investigate the price and supply of beer after...
Long-term future's bright for Boddington's Interbrew
17-Mar-2005
A new regional TV advertising campaign and an array of in-house support activities in pubs has been announced by Interbrew for Boddington's Cask, now...
ScotCo promises new era of price openess
17-Mar-2005
by John Harrington Scottish Courage has announced a new "fairer" system for increasing the wholesale prices of its brands and promises a new era...
Pubs showing support for Beer With Food Week
17-Mar-2005
Pubs across the UK are playing an important part in the national Beer With Food Week which, runs until Sunday and is being supported by Greene King...
Hotel du Vin opens at Brakspear site
17-Mar-2005
The former Brakspear brewery in Henley has re-opened as the seventh Hotel du Vin. The collection of buildings encircling the old brewery yard houses...
Interbrew injects £11m into new-look Boddies and Bass
17-Mar-2005
by Tony Halstead Interbrew UK is to splash out £11m on its two leading cask-ale brands, Draught Bass and Boddington's, following the transfer of...
Image is everything when it comes to marketing. But when Adn
17-Mar-2005
ANDY WOOD reflects on a new approach It goes without saying that companies such as Adnams need to build a significant consumer franchise and...
Back in 2001, Ray Welton used to rent part of the Hepworth &
17-Mar-2005
But Welton has now moved to his own premises Welton Brewery 100 yards away from Bill King's brewery on the Foundry Lane estate. Welton is a...
Beautiful Beer drive wins major coverage
17-Mar-2005
by Ewan Turney The Beautiful Beer campaign has won widespread media coverage in its first fortnight with particular focus on encouraging women...
Bill King has downsized with a vengeance. From managing dire
17-Mar-2005
But at least he's still making beer. That seemed unlikely back in 2000 when King & Barnes went out of business. King was badly damaged by the...
Budweiser Budvar set to keg at source
17-Mar-2005
Budweiser Budvar has unveiled plans to keg and rack its draught lager where it is produced in the Czech Republic to beef up its reputation as an...
Budget gets frosty reception from hosts and brewers
17-Mar-2005
by John Harringtonand Ewan Turney Licensees and brewers have hit out at the duty rises on beer announced in yesterday's Budget. From 20 March, beer...
Born to brew
17-Mar-2005
For more than 200-years Horsham's King & Barnes was a dominant regional brewery. Five years after it closed, Roger Protz reports on how three...
Brewer taps into theatre' dispense
17-Mar-2005
A new cylinderless beer engine developed by Interbrew is the first branded system of its type, designed to help licensees improve the quality of cask...
25 years on and SIBA's drum still beats loudly
17-Mar-2005
Britain's small brewers have celebrated 25 years of existence by giving a plaque to the landlady of the pub where they held their first meeting in...
ScotCo calls for a halt to massive price hikes
14-Mar-2005
Scottish Courage has laid down the gauntlet to brewers to be more open with their pricing policies.The brewer has announced a 3.2 per cent increase...
Carlsberg tight-lipped on rumours
10-Mar-2005
Carlsberg UK has been unable to comment on rumours that it is about to pull out of football sponsorship, including its deal with Liverpool Football...
Bodgers flies the flag for barley wine
10-Mar-2005
If Murphy's Law operates, you will read this in bright spring sunshine, but I'm writing with snow driving against the house and cars slithering...
Full-pint measure is nota worry for consumers
10-Mar-2005
by Ewan Turney MPs and the Campaign for Real Ale (Camra) are barking up the wrong tree in campaigning for a full-pint measure, according to a survey...
Gales wins green' gongfor water conservation
10-Mar-2005
by Tony Halstead Independent brewer George Gale has won a major environmental award for water conservation. The Hampshire-based brewer triumphed in...
Fuller's brings back Hock after 12 years
10-Mar-2005
London brewer Fuller's has revealed that classic mild ale Hock will be the returning hero of its spring beer festival after an absence of 12 years....
Sheps breaks the deadlock
10-Mar-2005
For years Shepherd Neame's Faversham brewery was hampered by the constraints of its town-centre location. Now it has broken free with the help of a...
Trade battles to polish beer's tarnished reputation
04-Mar-2005
The British Beer & Pub Association (BBPA) has launched its long-awaited campaign to improve the image of beer.Brewers and pub companies want to...
SAB Miller in talks to snap up Topvar
03-Mar-2005
The Morning Advertiser has learnt that SAB Miller is in talks to acquire Slovakia's third-largest brewer Topvar. Privatised in 1994, Topvar, is now...
Beautiful Beer points to cask challenge ahead
03-Mar-2005
by John Harrington One third of the 340 pubs surveyed in the run-up to the launch of the Beautiful Beer campaign, which aims to improve beer's...
Beer With Food Week updates:
03-Mar-2005
l Restaurant sommelier turned pub landlord Mark Vandergoot is more qualified than most to offer beer with food matching tips. The Australian-born...
Bristol brewing begins to bounce back
03-Mar-2005
Signs outside the Wellington Hotel in the Horfield district of Bristol last week announced: "Beer seminar with Roger Protz". Even though I've been...
Camra signs up 75,000th member
03-Mar-2005
The Campaign for Real Ale signed up its 75,000th member during NationalPubs Week (NPW) and is now three quarters of the way towards reaching its...
The Beer Factor - With Beer with Food Week fast approaching..
01-Mar-2005
With Beer With Food Week fast approaching - 14 to 20 March - PubChef looks at ideas to cash in on the event.
Dominant ales
24-Feb-2005
Size matters or so it would seem in the ale market. The national brewers have moved out of ale in recent years, making way for a strong charge...
Camra targets quick buck' pub conversions
24-Feb-2005
by Ewan Turney The Campaign for Real Ale has launched an updated version of its Public House Viability Test booklet in a bid to reverse the...
Branded-spirits food sales boost
24-Feb-2005
Alcohol-themed dishes based on branded products could help pubs boost food sales, according to drinks distributor Thomas Lowndes & Co. The...
Big brewers deal price hike blow to pubs: Ross
24-Feb-2005
by John Harrington Stuart Ross, chief executive of Scottish brewer and pubco Belhaven, has hit out at the "hugely inflationary" price rises...
Adnams signs Bitburger deal
24-Feb-2005
Adnams and Bitburger have signed a 10-year rolling contract that will further strengthen the existing14-year relationship. This is the first time the...
In the nitrokeg market, the rise of John Smith's continues u
24-Feb-2005
When the research was conducted, the Scottish Courage brand had just added sponsorship of the Grand National to its award-winning Peter Kay...
How to run a beer festival
24-Feb-2005
If you've never taken the plunge, heed a bit of friendly advice from some of those who have boosted their sales of ales Have a good reason for doing...
Regionality is the name of the game
24-Feb-2005
The regional nature of the market and the rolling programme of seasonal brews that brewers come up with, sets the ale category apart from virtually...
Adnams and Bitburger sign 10-year deal
23-Feb-2005
Southwold brewer Adnams has signed a 10-year rolling agreement to import and distribute Bitburger beer in the UK.Signed yesterday (Tuesday, 22...
New cask version of Cains' premium lager now available
23-Feb-2005
Cains brewery has launched a new cask version of its premium lager at the Liverpool CAMRA festival.The cask version has been in development for the...
In session...with Ben McFarland
22-Feb-2005
Beer Writer of the Year Ben McFarland on caffeine-infused beers and their coverage in the tabloids.You have to hand it to the Daily Star, that most...
Brains puts 21 leases on market for first time
17-Feb-2005
by The PMA Team Cardiff-based brewer and retailer SA Brain is offering its first leases in a new initiative called Positive Partnerships at 21...
Beer & Food: Savour flavours
17-Feb-2005
Pubs are beginning to boost the image of beer by matching it with food. But there is still much more that could be done. Phil Mellows reports.For a...
Prevailing northerlies
17-Feb-2005
In the second of our two-part series looking at brewers making waves in the north of England, Tony Halstead casts his eye over Robinson's while...
Harley and Budvar part company
17-Feb-2005
Budweiser Budvar UK chief executive John Harley, right, has left the company. According to Budvar's UK public relations controller Denis Cox, the...
Fat Cat lands top Camra award for a second time
17-Feb-2005
by Ewan Turney The Fat Cat in Norwich has been crowned Campaign for Real Ale's National Pub of the Year for a record second time. The Fat Cat,...
Dorber's expansion
17-Feb-2005
Mark Dorber changed my life. OK, so I'm being a little dramatic but it was dining at his place that opened my eyes. For those who don't know him,...
Beer & Food: Matchmaking
16-Feb-2005
Matching beer and food should be a very easy concept for the pub trade. So why has it taken so long to catch on? John Porter reports.On the face of...
