20-Oct-2009 By Roger Protz
Environmental awareness runs through every level of Adnams, from its chairman's mode of transport to the brewery's energy sources, says Roger Protz.
Everards offers a year's beer for best memorabilia
20-Oct-2009 By James Wilmore
Everards is offering a year's worth of beer to the customer who comes up with the best piece of memorabilia to help celebrate the brewery's 160th...
BrewDog looking to raise £2.3m from share sale
20-Oct-2009 By Hamish Champ
BrewDog, the maverick brewery responsible for producing the UK's strongest beer, is to invite the public to invest in the company via the internet....
20-Oct-2009 By Ewan Turney
Strike action at Diageo sites in Kilmarnock, Port Dundass and Shieldhall moved a step closer as a ballot of workers opened. Last month, Diageo...
Everards offers free beer for a year
20-Oct-2009 By Ewan Turney
Leicestershire brewer Everards is offering a year's supply of beer to one lucky person as part of its 160th anniversary celebrations. The brewer is...
£3m spend on Jameson
20-Oct-2009 By Sonya Hook
Pernod Ricard UK has pledged to invest more in its Jameson whiskey brand next year than it has in any previous year. The company plans to spend £3m...
Purity Brewing Co: Pure and simple
19-Oct-2009 By Hamish Champ
To look at the home page of Purity Brewery's website you'd think times were tough for the company. A wide-angled photograph shows a pretty grim-faced...
Play it a Hen, Sam
19-Oct-2009 By Matt Eley Matt
A musical beer lover has combined his two passions to create a new version of Beethoven's Ode to Joy. Old Speckled Hen devotee Jonathan Vincent...
Marstons debuts cask beer festival
19-Oct-2009 By Gemma McKenna
Marston's is launching its first ever cask beer celebration with 23 different brews on offer at 425 of its pubs. The celebrations will kick off for...
16-Oct-2009 By Mark Stretton, M&C Report
The Wye Valley Brewery has been named the overall winner at this year's SIBA Brewing Business Awards. The independent brewer's association singled...
'CVC buys AB InBev arm in $3.03bn deal'
15-Oct-2009 By Matt Eley Matt
The biggest European private equity deal of the year was revealed today, as CVC Capital Partners announced that it will pay as much as $3.03 billion...
AB InBev sells brewing interests for £1.4bn
15-Oct-2009 By Hamish Champ
In its second major deal in as many weeks AB InBev has agreed to sell its Central European brewing businesses to private equity giant CVC Partners...
15-Oct-2009 By Robyn Lewis
Fizzy sambuca is set to hit UK bars in the form of a new RTD range from distributor Hi Spirits. The company is hoping the launch will capitalise on...
15-Oct-2009 By Martyn Leek, M&C Report
Britvic, the soft drinks maker and distributor, has this morning reported a 2.5% decline in licensed on-trade volumes for the year to July. It...
Pete Brown: The deeper meaning of cask
14-Oct-2009
Cask beer, cask ale, real ale, hand-pulled ale… when we can't even agree what to call the stuff, the revitalisation of Britain's national drink is...
Diageo says £120m cost saving programme on track
14-Oct-2009 By Hamish Champ
Drinks giant Diageo, currently embroiled in a dispute with staff at a number of its Scottish operations, has reported net turnover down six per cent...
Magners asks drinkers to decide new flavour
14-Oct-2009
A poll of consumers on social networking website Facebook is helping to determine the flavour of a new Magners product to be released next summer....
14-Oct-2009 By Karl Harrison
There is nothing to fear from a free-of-tie future, argues Fair Pint campaigner and Enterprise tenant Karl Harrison.
Cider industry dismayed by Tory duty plan
13-Oct-2009 By The PMA Team
The cider industry has reacted strongly to last week's speech at the Conservative Party Conference by shadow home secretary Chris Grayling. Chair of...
S&N to close Dunston brewery
13-Oct-2009 By The PMA Team
Scottish & Newcastle has announced its intention to close its Dunston brewing operations in Gateshead, by mid 2010. The company proposes to...
Comment: Sambuca alcopop anyone?
13-Oct-2009
There we all were waiting for a sambuca-based RTD and along come two at once. The RTD category is apparently in terminal decline, pubs selling 15.4...
Union plans Diageo AGM protest
13-Oct-2009 By Hamish Champ
Diageo workers whose jobs are threatened by a major restructuring proposal are planning to lobby shareholders of the drinks giant at the group's...
Arran Brewery eyes Diageo's Kilmarnock bottling plant
13-Oct-2009
A Scottish island brewery could move its bottling operation into the doomed Johnnie Walker plant in Kilmarnock, Ayrshire. The firm behind the Arran...
Scottish & Newcastle to close Dunston brewery
13-Oct-2009 By Hamish Champ
Scottish & Newcastle (S&N) has announced plans to close its Dunston brewery in Gateshead - which produces its Newcastle Brown Ale - by the...
12-Oct-2009 By Roger Protz
Next month, S&N becomes Heineken UK and a piece of British brewing history disappears, says Roger Protz.
Pete Brown: Festival time - normal rules don't apply…
12-Oct-2009
If you'll forgive the blatant plug, I've learned an interesting lesson this summer while touring the UK promoting my new book, Hops and Glory. I've...
Carlsberg commits to cask with new Christmas beer
12-Oct-2009
Carlsberg UK is claiming that its launch of a special edition Christmas cask beer signals its long-term commitment to the cask version of Tetley's....
Shadow chancellor told 'beer tie must stay'
12-Oct-2009 By Matt Eley Matt
Lib Dem shadow chancellor Vince Cable has been told by Wells and Young's top brass that getting rid of the beer tie would be "a nail in the coffin"...
Diageo workers call for face-to-face meeting with chief executive
12-Oct-2009 By Hamish Champ
Workers at Diageo's threatened Kilmarnock bottling plant have written to the boss of the drinks giant demanding to hear from him in person why he has...
Greene King signs sponsorship deal with Cambridge United FC
12-Oct-2009 By James Wilmore
Greene King has been unveiled as the new shirt sponsors of Cambridge United Football Club, which will include the brewer's flagship IPA brand being...
12-Oct-2009 By Ewan Turney
Angry Diageo workers at the Johnnie Walker plant in Kilmarnock have called for a face-to-face meet with chief executive Paul Walsh. Last month,...
Pub bitch: Mountaineers, Loonies, Boris, Football frustration and how to pour Stella
09-Oct-2009
On the table I can be a cynical old thing at times but I'm also a sucker for a good cause. Billing themselves as the Three Mountaineers, Lee Cash...
Brands poised to score at World Cup
09-Oct-2009
Brands are clamouring to associate themselves with the cash cow that is the 2010 South African World Cup. South African drinks and major global...
Pub group to stage mass 'beercott'
09-Oct-2009 By Matt Eley Matt
A group of disgruntled licensees are aiming to "finish off" the pub companies by staging a mass rent boycott. Members of the Pub Revolution group...
09-Oct-2009 By Ewan Turney
Abolishing the beer tie would be another nail in the coffin of the British beer industry — that's the stark warning from Charles Wells to shadow...
09-Oct-2009 By Ewan Turney
A group of tied tenants is threatening to stop paying rent and buying beer from their pubcos in a bid to kill their cashflow. The Pub Revolution...
09-Oct-2009 By Ewan Turney
Greene King has signed a three-year shirt sponsorship deal with Conference League side Cambridge United. The club, just 25 miles down the road from...
08-Oct-2009 By Sonya Hook
The BitterSweet Partnership is currently working with a designer to create some bespoke beer glasses that will appeal to a female audience.
08-Oct-2009 By The PMA Team
A total of £10m will be invested by the Cobra Beer Partnership, the joint venture between Molson Coors and Cobra founder Karan Bilimoria, over the...
Comment: Onwards and upwards with cask's good news
08-Oct-2009
Propaganda [prop-uh-gan-duh ]1) Information, ideas or rumours deliberately spread widely to help or harm a person, group, movement, institution,...
Jameson launches on-trade sampling campaign
08-Oct-2009 By Claire Dodd Claire
Jameson is targeting the on-trade with sampling activity aimed at reaching its target 24-35 year old male audience. Throughout October, Pernod...
New "brand proposition" for Magners to be rolled out next summer
08-Oct-2009 By Hamish Champ
C&C Group is planning to roll out what its chief executive John Dunsmore said would be a "new brand proposition" for its Magners cider next...
Theakstons ads claim cask beer is 'sign of a better pub'
08-Oct-2009
Theakstons is running a series of adverts in the national press based around a play on traditional pub signs. The 'sign of a better pub' campaign is...
Licensee's fury over beer delivery dispute
08-Oct-2009 By James Wilmore
An angry licensee is being forced to carry his own beer kegs to his cellar because of an on-going safety dispute between his landlord and Carlsberg....
Magners cider sales still sliding
08-Oct-2009 By Hamish Champ
The UK's love affair with Magners cider continued to cool in 2009, with sales of the brand slipping two per cent in the six months to August 31,...
£10m campaign to boost Cobra's food credentials
08-Oct-2009
The Cobra beer brand is getting a makeover in a drive to take it from its Indian Restautant roots and promote it as an accompaniment to a wide range...
Punch tenants given access to guest ale scheme
07-Oct-2009 By Matt Eley Matt
Punch Taverns is running a trial allowing a greater number of its pubs to buy locally produced beer direct from the Society of Independent Brewers...
Stella Artois names the best pourer of its beer in the UK
07-Oct-2009 By Hamish Champ
Will Maltby, a member of the bar team at the Princess Victoria pub in West London, has been crowned Stella Artois UK Draught Master 2009. Maltby won...
Greene King launches Head Brewer's Club
07-Oct-2009 By Matt Eley Matt
Cask masters have been rewarded by brewer Greene King with the launch of its Head Brewer's Club. The Suffolk brewer has hand-picked 300 of its best...
Carlsberg links-up with Mirror for free pint promotion
07-Oct-2009 By James Wilmore
Carlsberg is aiming to help pubs get customers through the door this Saturday with a free pint promotion with the Daily Mirror. Despite pubs not...
