Beer

Guinness dreams of a white and black Christmas

14-Dec-2011 By Matthew Moggridge

A £2 million media campaign for Guinness forms the backbone of Diageo’s masterplan to drive festive beer sales and satisfy hard-to-please men in the prezzie department.

Positive trends prevailing

13-Dec-2011 By Pete Brown

This is my last column of the year, and I find myself looking back on 2011 as an unexpectedly good year in many ways for the beer and pub world, and feel ing curiously optimistic about 2012. No, don’t laugh.

Innis & Gunn on the recruitment trail

12-Dec-2011

Innis & Gunn, the Scottish brewer, is to double its workforce with the creation of 13 new jobs as it reports a 68% rise in turnover to £6.167m in the year to the end of September 2011.

Molson Coors urges MP barley farmers support

09-Dec-2011 By Adam Pescod

Molson Coors has written a letter to 60 MPs across the UK to encourage support for barley farmers and to highlight the crucial relationship between farming and brewing.

Dea Latis women switch from wine to beer in January

06-Dec-2011 By Gurjit Degun

Members of Dea Latis, the beer in women group, are set to switch from wine to beer in January in a bid to cut alcohol intake and shift the extra pounds from Christmas.

Revolution brews in Cumbria

06-Dec-2011 By Roger Protz

If you want to see at first hand the British brewing revolution going full bore, you should spend a few days in Cumbria. I was the guest speaker in November at the Cumbrian branches of the Campaign for Real Ale’s (CAMRA’s) annual dinner, held in a large...

PMA contributors win top beer accolades

02-Dec-2011

Three Publican’s Morning Advertiser (PMA) contributors received top accolades last night at the British Guild of Beer Writers Annual Awards Dinner.

RBS sells 918 pubs to Heineken

02-Dec-2011 By Mark Wingett

Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) has sold 918 freehold pubs, the portfolio known as the Galaxy estate, to Scottish & Newcastle Pub Company (S&NPC), a subsidiary of Heineken, for £422m, in the largest deal in the tenanted pub sector for eight years.

A mighty drop of excellence

28-Nov-2011 By Pete Brown

One of the things I love most about this job is the little pockets of beer and pub excellence you discover around the country, developing relationships with people and links to places that transcend the initial contact to become something much more life-enriching.

Molson Coors unveils price hikes

25-Nov-2011 By Michelle Perrett

Molson Coors has announced it will be increasing its wholesale prices to the on-trade by, on average, £19.99 per barrel, or 7p per pint from 2 January 2012.

BIS: Pubcos and brewers welcome self-regulation

24-Nov-2011 By Michelle Perrett

Family brewers and pubcos have welcomed the Government’s decision to protect the tie and shun a Statutory Code of Practice for the industry.

Peroni drives SAB Miller UK lager volumes by 6%

17-Nov-2011 By John Harrington

SABMiller has shrugged off the difficult comparatives with the 2010 football World Cup to report a 6% growth in UK lager volumes in the six months to 30 September.

Academy teaches beer sommeliers

17-Nov-2011 By Gurjit Degun

Licensees are being urged to help increase the importance of beer by becoming a beer sommelier through a new course with the Beer Academy (BA).

Castle Rock wins top prize at SIBA Business Awards

16-Nov-2011

Nottingham brewer Castle Rock took the top prize at the SIBA Business Awards 2011 yesterday.

Brains makes craft brewery investment

15-Nov-2011 By Mark Wingett

SA Brain, the brewer and pub operator, is to extend production facilities at its Cardiff-based brewery by installing a new craft brewery.

SIBA launches keg repatriation scheme

15-Nov-2011 By Gurjit Degun

Members of the Society of Independent Brewers (SIBA) will see their empty kegs collected more efficiently from January.

Britain's oldest lager re-launched in north Wales

14-Nov-2011 By Tony Halstead

The first lager ever to be brewed in the UK 129 years ago has been re-launched this month in its native north Wales.

A pivotal change is brewing

11-Nov-2011 By Pete Brown

In my last column, I talked about how the cask ale message – that cask is on the up, that it’s a real boon to publicans — has finally got through. I said that this was a good thing, and that we perhaps need to stop repeating ourselves.

'Two-thirds pints are being shunned'

11-Nov-2011 By Michelle Perrett

Pubs and pub goers have shunned the two-third pint glasses, says research from the Campaign for Real Ale (CAMRA).

Fuller’s hails its Black Cab Stout

09-Nov-2011 By Noli Dinkovski

Fuller’s is celebrating London’s Hackney carriage with a new seasonal stout in time for Christmas.

Carlsberg sales flat

09-Nov-2011 By John Harrington, M&C Report

Carlsberg said third-quarter sales stagnated as poor summer weather held back volumes in Europe and its sales in Russia fell compared to the previous year.

Save the Pub Group: action needed now on beer tie

08-Nov-2011 By Gurjit Degun

The All-Party Parliamentary Save the Pub Group has urged the Government to stick to its promise to act now in regards to the Business Innovation and Skills Committee report on pub companies.

Pub groups voice concern over Tennent's lager price hike

07-Nov-2011 By Gurjit Degun

Punch Taverns is encouraging its Scottish lessees to look for alternative products to replace Tennent’s lager after brand owner C&C Group added 40p to the cost of a pint.

Brewers exceeding energy efficiency targets

07-Nov-2011 By John Harrington, M&C Report

Large UK brewers have exceeded their energy efficiency targets, according to the British Beer & Pub Association (BBPA).

Kirkstall Brewery buys first pub

07-Nov-2011

Kirkstall Brewery Company, the Leeds-based brewing venture which was revived earlier this year by Vertical Drinks managing director Stephen Holt, has acquired its first pub.

Embracing change: IFBB admits Cain’s

04-Nov-2011 By Roger Protz

Nine years and three months after Cain’s first applied to join the Independent Family Brewers of Britain (IFBB), the Liverpool brewer has at last been admitted to membership. Why has it taken so long?

Adnams' House of Fraser concession

04-Nov-2011 By John Harrington

Adnams, the Suffolk brewer, distiller and pub operator, is to open its first concession in a department store this week at House of Fraser in Chapelfield, Norwich.

WSTA's Jeremy Beadles to join Heineken UK

02-Nov-2011 By Gurjit Degun

Wine and Spirit Trade Association (WSTA) chief executive Jeremy Beadles is set to leave the organisation in the New Year, after six years, to take up the position of corporate relations director for Heineken UK.

Scottish Beer and Pub Association voices minimum price concerns

02-Nov-2011 By Adam Pescod

The Scottish Beer and Pub Association (SBPA) has expressed “concern” about parts of the Minimum Pricing Bill published by the Scottish Government yesterday.

What lies beyond the ale?

31-Oct-2011 By Pete Brown

At the start of this month we launched the latest Cask Report. You may have noticed it — the page after page of coverage it received in this magazine was hard to miss.

Heineken Q3 sales up on emerging markets

27-Oct-2011

Heineken, the international brewer, has reported a 0.6% rise in third quarter revenues to €4.65bn driven by volume growth in emerging markets, which offset a poor performance in Western Europe.

Carlsberg UK boss Sheps moves to Russia

27-Oct-2011 By Mark Wingettt, M&C Report

The chief executive of Carlsberg UK Dr Isaac Sheps is to move to a new job within the company at the start of December.

Cask seen again as saviour for pubs

25-Oct-2011

Cask ale has once again been hailed as a real force for good for the pub trade with 80% of licensees expecting sales of Britain’s national drink to rise over the coming year — although 35% believe they are still in for another tough 12 months.

Cask Ale Week success hailed

25-Oct-2011 By Gurjit Degun

Cask Marque has reported the ‘World’s Biggest Ale Trail’ to be a “great success” with 948 people registering for the £50,000 initiative.

Giving the Americans an IPA history lesson

24-Oct-2011 By Roger Protz

India Pale Ale was a beer designed to travel, and it keeps on going. First brewed in England in the 19th century for export to India and other British colonies, it has become a cult style in the United States.

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Miller's abbey beer plan

21-Oct-2011 By Jessica Harvey

Miller Brands, the UK arm of SABMiller, is set to launch a Belgian abbey beer, named St Stefanus, by the end of the month.

BrewDog eyes more bar openings and £7m brewery

19-Oct-2011

BrewDog, the Scottish brewer, is eyeing Leeds, Birmingham and Sheffield for its next craft beer bar openings.

Smooth criminals: my love affair with pub's founders after laptop theft

18-Oct-2011 By Pete Brown

I’ve written a great deal over the past eight years about how much I love pubs, about how I see the pub as the crucible of everything that’s good about humanity: the warmth, good cheer and democracy, the benign anarchy, the hint of surrealism, the tradition,...

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