Beer

News of the brews

13-Nov-2015 By Ben Winstanley

News of the brews is your definitive guide to the week in beer, bringing you the latest in all things hoppy.

City news

Young's reports 10.3% growth in pre-tax profits

12-Nov-2015 By MC Allegra FS

Young’s has reported 10.3% growth in pre-tax profits at £20.3m with revenue growth of 8.3% in what it called a “very strong performance” for the 26 weeks to 28 September 2016.

BBPA data

What impact have tax cuts had on beer sales?

11-Nov-2015 By Oli Gross

Despite yet another drop in on-trade beer sales, there is cause for optimism as the 1.2% dip in Q3 is the smallest in two years for any quarter.

What pubs can learn from the ABInBev/SABMiller deal: What does success mean to you?

11-Nov-2015 By Jessica Mason

There are some incredible parallels between the role pubs play and the reasons great brewers exist.

Beer

Does cask have its rivals over a barrel?

11-Nov-2015 By Nigel Huddleston

Cask ale cannot be matched outside pubs. Nigel Huddleston finds out why stocking it will give you the edge.

AB InBev and SABMiller agree merger

11-Nov-2015 By M&C Allegra

AB InBev has announced it has reached agreement with the board of SABMiller over its £68bn takeover.

Pub openings

Brakspear opens first managed pub in London

09-Nov-2015 By James Evison

Shepherds Bush site reopens as neighbourhood local.

News of the brews

06-Nov-2015 By Ben Winstanley

News of the brews is your definitive guide to the week in beer, bringing you the latest in all things hoppy.

BrewDog: drinkers deserve to know where their beer is coming from

05-Nov-2015 By Emily Sutherland

BrewDog co-founder Jamer Watt has argued that beer drinkers deserve to know where their beer comes from in the wake of several scandals where prominent craft beers were outed as not being brewed in the places suggested by their branding.

Training

Here for the beer: Road testing the Beer Academy Foundation Course

05-Nov-2015 By PMA

The Beer Academy has been training people in the appreciation of beer for more than a decade.

Beer

How's life treating the small family brewers?

05-Nov-2015 By Roger Protz

Life is rarely easy for small family brewers but, as Roger Protz found out, that’s not the case at Elgood’s.

Nirvana Brewery starts crowdfunding campaign for non-alcoholic beer project

04-Nov-2015 By Ben Winstanley

Nirvana Brewery is crowdfunding for a new non-alcoholic beer project.

BrewDog launches world's first transgender beer

04-Nov-2015 By Emily Sutherland

BrewDog has launched the world’s first ‘non-binary, transgender beer’ to celebrate the opening of its Soho branch.

Beer is NOT unhealthy

03-Nov-2015 By Jessica Mason

Back in the spring, I posted a picture on my Instagram feed of my torso with the caption: ‘Getting there’.

Beer belly branded a 'myth'

03-Nov-2015 By Emily Sutherland

Most UK drinkers don’t understand what’s in their beer according to a new study from There’s a Beer for That, with many believing that the nation’s favourite tipple has far more calories and sugar than it actually does.

Burger King launches bid to start serving beer at UK branches

02-Nov-2015 By Emily Sutherland

Burger King could become the first fast-food restaurant to start serving beer after it applied for drinks licences at four of its UK branches.

Big Brewer is watching you

02-Nov-2015 By Pete Brown

Pete Brown runs his own slide-rule over the megadeal between AB InBev and SABMiller and concludes that the future may be less than rosy for both pubs and small brewers in the UK.

Craft beer

Timothy Taylor boss: Craft boom has driven beer prices dangerously low

30-Oct-2015 By Emily Sutherland

Timothy Taylor boss Tim Dewey has hit out against the tax breaks given to smaller brewers, arguing beer prices have been driven dangerously low by the craft beer boom.

News of the brews

29-Oct-2015 By Ben Winstanley

News of the brews is your definitive guide to the week in beer, bringing you the latest in all things hoppy.

£5m refinancing

Cameron's Brewery aims to add 50 pubs

29-Oct-2015 By Oli Gross

Camerons Brewery is seeking a £5m refinancing package to fund a growth strategy of adding 30 managed and 20 tenanted pubs over the next five years.

City news

Brewhouse & Kitchen has potential to be 50-strong venture

23-Oct-2015 By MC Allegra FS

Brewhouse and Kitchen, the Enterprise Investment Scheme (EIS) backed venture, has a vision of building a group of more than 50 pubs across the country.

Sales

Is the tie between beers and pubs loosening?

23-Oct-2015 By Phil Mellows

Beer and pubs. For centuries — going back to about 1500 when ale houses began to proliferate — the two have gone together. Yet now, for the first time since they started measuring these things, pubs are no longer the main places people drink beer. Phil...

Beer research

British drinkers prefer pints half as strong as Europeans

21-Oct-2015 By Oli Gross

British beer enthusiasts aren’t as keen on stronger pints than those on the continent, new research has found.

Shepherd Neame launches Movember activity for Spitfire

20-Oct-2015 By Jessica Mason

Shepherd Neame has launched a limited-edition Spitfire Ale Movember bottle to pubs and bars between October and November.

Diageo launches Hop House 13 Lager

20-Oct-2015 By Jessica Mason

Diageo has launched a 5% ABV double-hopped lager brewed with Guinness yeast, named Hop House 13, to target “premium lager drinkers”.

Enterprise tenants to get Royal British Legion beer

19-Oct-2015 By Emily Sutherland

Enterprise Inns has strengthened its ties to The Royal British Legion with the launch of a new beer, Poppy, which will help raise funds for the Armed Forces charity.

Beer

"Successful craft brewers should man the barricades" - Protz on the AB InBev/SABMiller deal

19-Oct-2015 By Roger Protz

Roger Protz takes a look at the likely repercussions of AB InBev’s takeover of SABMiller — a move that will see one third of world beer production in the hands of one company.

Beer

Asahi Super Dry Black launched

19-Oct-2015 By Jessica Mason

Shepherd Neame is launching a bottled dark lager variant from Japanese lager brand Asahi, which it currently brews under licence in the UK.

Beer

Purity celebrates 158% growth - and signals new beers

19-Oct-2015 By James Evison

Purity celebrates growth - and states new beer likely for 2016.

FOOD AND BEER PAIRING

Beer and vegetables: a match made in heaven?

19-Oct-2015 By Daniel Woolfson

Operators should consider creating vegetable-based beer pairings as sourcing, quality and preparation of vegetables become even more of a focus on menus in 2016, Brewers Association executive chef Adam Dulye has claimed.

Marston’s 20 new sites 'must be chosen carefully to avoid eating out growth pinch'

19-Oct-2015 By Nicholas Robinson

Marston’s will have to choose the sites of its 20 new food pubs carefully to avoid the pinch of the saturation in the eating out sector, which has already forced menu prices down in high street pubs, a City analyst has warned.

Do not drink: "Shattering" bottles recalled

16-Oct-2015 By Oli Gross

Three beers from Staffordshire Brewery have been recalled after some of the bottles were “shattering” due to faulty glass.

How posh is your pint? Ten top lagers ranked by class preference

15-Oct-2015 By Oli Gross

Peroni is the poshest lager in the UK while Carlsberg and Carling have a lower proportion of upper-middle and middle-classed customers, new research has revealed.

Wetherspoons boss says AB InBev takeover of SAB Miller could be bad news for pubs

15-Oct-2015 By Emily Sutherland

Wetherspoons boss Tim Martin has slammed AB InBev’s £70 billion takeover of SAB Miller, and warned that the industry could be hit with price hikes.

Beer

More tank beer outlets in pipeline for Miller Brands

13-Oct-2015 By Jessica Mason

Miller Brands is set to launch two new tank beer outlets, with more UK installations in the pipeline.

What will AB InBev buying SABMiller mean for pubs?

13-Oct-2015 By Jessica Mason

This morning, SABMiller, which owns brands such as Peroni, Grolsch, Fosters and, more recently, Meantime accepted “in principle” an offer from brewing giant Anheuser-Busch InBev, which owns brands including Stella Artois, Budweiser, Corona and Goose Island.

Is the difference between a bar and a pub becoming irrelevant?

13-Oct-2015 By Pete Brown

Pete Brown discovers why the difference between a bar and a pub is becoming less relevant as venues like award-winning Purecraft proves being both is a way of enticing all types of custom.

Food success comes from £5m spend on local produce, says Devon pub owner

13-Oct-2015 By Nicholas Robinson

A Devon pub owner has claimed part of his business’s success is down to a multimillion pound spend on local produce.

Beer

Brewing giants AB InBev and SABMiller agree takeover terms

13-Oct-2015 By James Wallin, M&C Allegra

The board of SABMiller has accepted a £68bn takeover bid by AB InBev.

Top 50 Gastropubs 2016

How to win a Top 50 Gastropubs Award

13-Oct-2015 By Nicholas Robinson

The Estrella Damm Top 50 Gastropubs 2016 is fast approaching and so is the opportunity to win one of three awards up for grabs at the event in January. Here are our top tips on how to gain one.

Down on the hop farm: celebrating Britain's beery harvest

12-Oct-2015 By Jane Peyton

Beer drinkers rejoice – it’s that time of year when hops are harvested in Britain.

Beer

Indie Beer Can competition returns in 2016

12-Oct-2015 By James Evison

A competition to find the best independent beer in cans across the UK and Ireland has returned.

beer

One in six beer purchases made by women

12-Oct-2015 By Emily Sutherland

Research from drinks giant Ab InBev has revealed women over 25 now make up one in six of all beer purchases, the highest in five years.

Beer

Fourth bid for SABMiller from AB InBev

12-Oct-2015 By James Evison

AB InBev has submitted a revised share offer for SABMiller following a week of speculation and attempts to buy the global brewer.

Beer

Fancy a Dirty Bastard?...Twenty of the world's best beers

12-Oct-2015 By Adrian Tierney Jones

Adrian Tierney Jones identifies 20 world beers that deserve space in your pub

Food and beer pairing: golden rules...

12-Oct-2015 By Daniel Woolfson

Amber ale with that steak? IPA with your curry? Daniel Woolfson looks at the theory and science behind pairing food with beer and the opportunity it presents...

City news

Carlsberg UK CEO steps down

09-Oct-2015 By MC Allegra FS

Carlsberg UK chief executive James Lousada has left the company with immediate effect.

The National Living Wage will lead to more pub closures

09-Oct-2015 By William Lees-Jones

When George Osborne announced the introduction of the National Living Wage in July he surprised everybody. It came out of the blue and was a shameless political coup from a recently-elected government aimed at scoring points over other political parties.