06-Nov-2009 By Sonya Hook
A wild strawberry frappé liqueur brand is ready to hit the pub trade — Bad Angel is a blend of wild strawberry flavours.
05-Nov-2009 By Sonya Hook
Lambrini will be supported by a £1m investment to help drive Christmas sales including a national TV ad campaign.
Beer Orders - 20th Anniversary: Following orders...
05-Nov-2009 By Hamish Champ
Competition: "the rivalry between two or more businesses striving for the same customer or market" Monopoly: "exclusive control of a particular...
Meet the Stella Artois Draught Masters
05-Nov-2009
From across the globe they have come. From Montenegro…from Hong Kong…from Paraguay, and 23 other countries, including the UK. Some are...
Appleton opts for education
05-Nov-2009 By Sonya Hook
An education programme that offers premium rum as an after-dinner alternative to whisky and cognac has been launched. Jamaican rum producer J Wray...
Guinness launches epic new £5m ad campaign
04-Nov-2009 By Claire Dodd Claire
Guinness has launched a new £5m advertising campaign to mark the brand's change of position to a drink for casual drinking occasions and lively...
04-Nov-2009 By Sonya Hook
Guinness will feature in an epic new £5m advertising campaign which breaks all ties with its long-standing 'Good Things Come to Those Who Wait'...
Tattershall Castle adopts local beer scheme
03-Nov-2009 By John Harrington
Managed pub operator Tattershall Castle Group (TCG) is to start sourcing local beers through SIBA's Direct Delivery Scheme (DDS).
8,000 pubs join £2m Coke driving campaign
03-Nov-2009 By Sonya Hook
The number of pubs participating in Coca-Cola's Designated Driver initiative has swelled to 8,000, and this year a £2m campaign will also back the...
02-Nov-2009 By Roger Protz
British lager-makers are finding strength in numbers as lobby group gains ground, says Roger Protz.
02-Nov-2009 By Alex Kent
Carlsberg UK attracted over 1,000 licensees to its winter trade shows this year — up by over 30% on last year's events.
Kiwi pours perfect Stella
02-Nov-2009 By Alex Kent
Avril Maxwell of New Zealand has been crowned Stella Artois 2009 World Draught Master. Contestants from over 25 countries around the world took part...
02-Nov-2009 By Alex Kent
Welsh beer brand Brains is to launch its new "Positively Welsh" advertising campaign next week. The launch coincides with the four match...
30-Oct-2009 By Tamara Sender, M&C Report
Bay Restaurant Group and of Town & City Pub Company chairman Ian Payne said he believes the beer tie is not the problem.
Pete Brown: Binge-drinking - the problem is only with the minority, stop distorting the truth
30-Oct-2009
On Monday, October 19, the British Beer & Pub Association (BBPA) revealed new figures, compiled using government data, which show alcohol...
Wetherspoons slams Red Bull's use of 'wide-boy' tactics
30-Oct-2009 By Matt Eley Matt
Red Bull has been accused of using "wide-boy" tactics in a bid to discredit a rival brand after it secured a listing with Wetherspoons. Last month...
'Heineken buys Tchenguiz's pub chain from receivers'
30-Oct-2009 By Matt Eley Matt
Heineken has arranged to buy the assets of Globe Pub Company, owned by property entrepreneur Robert Tchenguiz, from receivers for £180m. The money...
29-Oct-2009 By Martyn Leek, M&C Report
Heineken will takeover the Globe Pub Company in late 2010 - following its £180m acquisition today by a holding company.
Pub beer sales continue to drop
29-Oct-2009 By Matt Eley Matt
Beer sales in pubs are continuing to plummet and the government should cut tax to give the sector a boost, according to the British Beer & Pub...
29-Oct-2009 By John Harrington
Freedom Brewery has become the first lager brewer to get involved in the Direct Delivery Scheme (DDS), which gives local brewers access to pubco estates.
29-Oct-2009 By Sonya Hook
Abbot Ale will make a TV appearance from the end of this week as part of a campaign featuring Brian Blessed. Green King's Abbot Ale will sponsor...
Hobgoblin ready for Halloween mischief
29-Oct-2009 By Sonya Hook
Pub visitors could be in for a Halloween surprise this weekend when the Hobgoblin goes on tour. The character, representing Wychwood Brewery...
29-Oct-2009 By John Harrington
Greene King is rolling out a high-tech beer-flow monitoring system, which it says could increase tenants' profits by "several thousands of pounds a...
29-Oct-2009 By Ewan Turney
The Government needs to cut beer tax when VAT returns to its normal level next year or face the prospect of more pubs closing. The Government missed out on £174m worth of revenue from beer duty in first nine months of year.
29-Oct-2009 By Robyn Lewis
Bacardi Brown-Forman (BB-F) is taking Southern Comfort back to its New Orleans roots with its biggest ever Christmas campaign.
29-Oct-2009 By Sonya Hook
Cider producers are diversifying into new categories in a bid to develop new drinking occasions for the drink. Recent innovations include mulled...
27-Oct-2009 By Ewan Turney
The Wine and Spirit Trade Association (WSTA) is to provide management services to the National Association of Cider Makers (NACM).
An ale tribute to cricket legend Fred Trueman
27-Oct-2009
Due for launch early in 2010 to coincide with the unveiling of a bronze statue of the cricketing legend in the town, the beer is being developed...
Racing into 2010 with John Smith's
27-Oct-2009
Pub-goers are to be invited to take a share in a race horse as part of a major new promotion from John Smith's. Every drinker buying a pint of John...
27-Oct-2009 By Sonya Hook
North Yorkshire-based brewer Copper Dragon is to launch a new ale to honour the county's legendary cricketer Freddie Trueman. Freddie Trueman...
26-Oct-2009 By Roger Protz
It was stretching things to brew Newky Broon in Gateshead, but moving it to Tadcaster? I ask you, writes Roger Protz.
Beer Matters: Bucking the trends
26-Oct-2009
The draw of the beer at Hertfordshire pub the Woodman is so strong that drinkers propping up the bar while the Craig family has been in charge have...
Hamish Champ: A Tale of Two Brewers
26-Oct-2009 By Hamish Champ
Last week I probably put away more units of alcohol than I did in the whole of the previous month. I'm neither proud nor indeed ashamed of this fact,...
26-Oct-2009 By Ewan Turney
Lancashire brewer Moorhouse's has recorded record sales for October — it sold 150,337 pints last week alone. The brewer said the success was down...
26-Oct-2009 By John Harrington
Fair Pint says it's "full steam ahead" for lobbying Europe over the beer tie despite the UK's OFT giving the tie a clean bill of health last week.
26-Oct-2009 By Robyn Lewis
Diageo Great Britain and Britvic have launched long mixed drink menus for the on-trade for the Christmas season. Diageo will continue to roll out...
S&NPE: Changing tactics
25-Oct-2009
In a novel deal with an entrepreneur best known for branded coffee houses, Scottish & Newcastle Pub Enterprises (S&NPE) next month launches...
23-Oct-2009 By Gemma McKenna
A Shropshire micro-brewery has stepped up to save one of the UK's most historic pubs — where beer was served directly from casks.
23-Oct-2009 By Robyn Lewis
The first English single malt whisky for 100 years will be released at the end of November by St George's Distillery.
23-Oct-2009 By Robyn Lewis
Worm your way into your regulars' hearts this Christmas with a new offer from Hi-Spirits — its giving away free bottles of worms.
'100 per cent' English cocktail created
23-Oct-2009
A new 100 per cent English cocktail has been created by a Town Crier in Herefordshire. The 'Turberfield Royale' was created by Ledbury Town Crier...
23-Oct-2009 By Robyn Lewis
A luxury lager from Down Under is set to hit UK shores later this month — limited edition Crown Ambassador Reserve Lager will sell for £35 a bottle.
22-Oct-2009 By Ewan Turney
The Office of Fair Trading has proved it does not understand the pubco business model, says Fair Pint.
The Nightingale sings again in Guinness contest
22-Oct-2009
Arthur's Day, which took place on September 24, was a celebration of 250 years of Guinness. But it was also a celebration of the pubs that have...
Brains picks its chef of the year
22-Oct-2009 By Claire Dodd Claire
Welsh pub company S. A. Brain has named its chef of the year 2009 after a hotly fought contest between six of the best chefs from its managed estate....
Jameson whiskey hits the movies
22-Oct-2009
Jameson whiskey is ramping up its presence in front of consumers with a major advertising campaign running until the end of the year. Taking the...
CAMRA: OFT has failed consumers
22-Oct-2009 By Matt Eley Matt
CAMRA has slammed the Office of Fair Trading (OFT) for "failing to protect consumers" by taking no further action over the consumer group's...
OFT will take no action over beer tie
22-Oct-2009 By Matt Eley Matt
The Office of Fair Trading (OFT) has found "no evidence" that the beer tie is having a detrimental effect on consumers and will to take no further...
21-Oct-2009 By Ewan Turney
Beer flow monitoring company Brulines believes its products will become more important than ever before in a challenging trading environment.
'White wine rots your teeth... and brushing makes it worse'
21-Oct-2009 By Matt Eley Matt
White wine wears enamel off teeth quicker than red wine White wines do more damage to your teeth than reds, a study has found. Scientists have found...
