Cellar to Glass: Four steps to a perfect pint
06-Jun-2008
Step 1: cellar cooling • Cellar storage will cool kegs and casks down to 11 to 13 degrees C. This can take up to 48 hours so always allow...
Speciality spirits: Success for sambuca
06-Jun-2008
"Sambuca is an Italian aniseed-flavoured, usually colourless liqueur. Its most common variety is often referred to as white sambuca in order to...
Revamp for wine profit with ViVAS
06-Jun-2008
The Priory Arms in Stockwell, South London is working with the ViVAS team to create a wine offering that will attract a broad range of customers and...
News update: Sell More pubs make progress
06-Jun-2008
* Sometimes businesses have to take one step back in order to take two steps forward. The White Hart, Hull, is planning a relaunch as a rebranded...
Cellar to Glass: Keeping it extra cold
06-Jun-2008
Extra cold beer has been an incredibly effective development over the past few years. It has given pub beer volumes a boost and with pub customers...
Cellar to Glass: High speed dispense
06-Jun-2008
The three-second pint of lager is here. Drinks Dispense Group has launched ExacTap - which it claims to be the world's fastest beer dispense system....
Cellar to Glass: Staying cool in the sun
06-Jun-2008
In the lead-up to summer, publicans should be prepared and have sound cellar management procedures in place. Here are some tips to help ensure your...
Cellar to Glass: Counting on quality
06-Jun-2008
Everybody knows what stock controllers do. They count things. So what is Ian Wylde, stock controller for Nottingham-based pubco Pub People, up to,...
How Liverpool can capitalise on the Capital of Culture
05-Jun-2008
IT WAS a few pints and a good pub that clinched Liverpool the title of European Capital of Culture for 2008. According to local legend, the...
Keeping quality in Czech
05-Jun-2008
Some brewers are concerned that smaller companies are just using the country of origin as a badge of quality, rather than maintaining the standard of...
Carlsberg masters the art of draught
05-Jun-2008 By Jessica Harvey jessica.harvey@william-reed.co.uk
Carlsberg has teamed up with Electrolux to create the Carlsberg DraughtMaster Professional System, offering "quality draught beer where it has been...
Budweiser seeks apprentice
05-Jun-2008
Budweiser is looking for one member of the public to become the Budweiser Brewmaster's Apprentice — training which will involve travelling around...
Cains brainstorms with business students
05-Jun-2008
Liverpool brewer Robert Cain chose an unusual method of investigating new marketing strategies for its lager brand, Cains Finest. How to raise its...
04-Jun-2008 By The PMA Team
Britvic has launched Pepsi Xtra Cold that gives consumers a flawless cola experience
Britvic launches Pepsi Xtra Cold
04-Jun-2008
The so-called extra cold revolution that has taken place in draught lager could be coming the way of soft drinks if the launch by Britvic of a...
Coors unveils new TV advertising
04-Jun-2008
Coors Brewers has unveiled a new television advertising campaign for its Coors Light beer brand. "Hear Me Now!" will air throughtout June and July,...
Happy days for cask ale
03-Jun-2008
Well, who would have thought it? There is good news in draught beer right now. And it goes by the name of cask ale.For some years cask brewers have...
When bottled beer turns to draught
03-Jun-2008
When you are analysing a declining market you tend to try and cling to any piece of good news you can find. Why wouldn't you when the British Beer...
03-Jun-2008 By Noli Dinkovski
Martini has launched its first on-trade campaign for 15 years and has added a new rosé-style variant. The campaign, a £2m spend, focuses on...
02-Jun-2008 By Ewan Turney
Adnams has launched Britain's first carbon neutral beer, East Gren, in draught format
Beam global launches premium tequila range
02-Jun-2008
Beam Global UK has launched a range of 100 per cent agave tequilas, a growing premium sub-sector, with the agave content denoting the quality of the...
First 'carbon neutral' beer available on draught
02-Jun-2008
Adnams' environmentally friendly beer East Green is available in cask form in pubs from today. This move follows the launch of bottles of the drink...
We must keep draught beer iconic
01-Jun-2008
'Quality, diversity, innovation.' No, it's not the latest party political mantra - it's where we all need to be if draught beer is to continue as the...
Good fortune brewing for pubco
01-Jun-2008
Pubco Brewkitchen will open a second site this month, with plans for up to 10. The company was set up by Thornbridge brewery CEO Simon Webster and...
Carlsberg rolls-out portable beer dispense system
30-May-2008 By James Wilmore
Carlsberg has launched an on-trade version of its innovative beer dispense system, DraughtMaster, in the UK. The wheelable unit contains a recyclable...
West Eleven teams up with Bibendum
30-May-2008
Drinks wholesaler Bibendum is getting behind the on-trade launch of West Eleven, a new range of pre-mixed, premium cocktails.The West Eleven range...
30-May-2008 By Ewan Turney
Diageo has announced that Guinness ad Bushmills will be commercial sponsors of the British & Irish Lions Tour of South Africa in 2009. Guinness...
30-May-2008
InterContinental Brands (ICB) has launched the first alcoholic smoothie and will back it with two TV sponsorship deals
29-May-2008 By Ewan Turney
London operator hails sale of brewery after 55% jump in adjusted profits
29-May-2008 By Roger Protz
Bearded beer-lover Ric Sainty has transformed the Old Spot from smelly pub to award-winning haven — and had an ale named after him, says Roger Protz
13 Jonathan Neame
29-May-2008
chief executive, Shepherd Neame (new entry)
Chasing volume is madness
29-May-2008
When it comes to beer, we are as an industry obsessed by volume. And it is hurting the pub.Perhaps the obsession should come as no surprise - the...
Creative solutions offered at Publican event
29-May-2008
Licensees need to create an exceptional experience to justify rising on-trade prices and to win more customers, according to industry leaders. People...
Young's puts in a strong performance
29-May-2008
Rising food sales, a strong emphasis on premiumisation and investment across the estate have helped London pub company Young's to a strong set of...
Food safety
29-May-2008
You can't be too careful or spotless with your menu offer to customers It's Food Safety Week from Monday 9 June to Friday 13 June. Stuart Knill, food...
Cobra: less gas means more chat
29-May-2008
Cobra Beer has unveiled the three characters who will be behind its major push into pubs. Using the strapline "Now you're talking", the...
Frosty Jack's ties with MTV & ITV2
29-May-2008
Aston Manor has tied up Frosty Jack's cider with comedy shows across two Freeview television channels. The £500,000 investment, which will cover...
Discovering Tuaca in UK
29-May-2008
Italian liqueur Tuaca has begun a major sampling campaign targeting nine cities across the UK. The sampling events, which are part of the Discover...
Enchanting Bordeaux wine launch
29-May-2008
Constellation Europe has partnered with Baron Philippe de Rothschild to create a "consumer-friendly" range of Bordeaux wines. The launch of the...
Top chefs slammed on wine mark-ups
29-May-2008 By Tony Halstead THals22851@aol.com
Profit margins are unjustified say critics Restaurants and gastropubs have been slated for excessive mark-ups on wine, which see diners charged up...
Beer offers hit pub bank holiday trade
29-May-2008 By Tony Halstead THals22851@aol.com
Trade leaders say brewers also play part Trade leaders have slammed supermarket bank holiday beer offers, which saw premium lager on sale for just...
Final drive for energy protection
29-May-2008 By John Harrington john.harrington@william-reed.co.u
Act now - complete the MA survey Hosts are urged to get involved in a final push to secure protection against being ripped off by energy suppliers. A...
37 Tony Payne (37) Phil Dixon (37) Roger Protz (new entry) Peter Coulson (new entry)
29-May-2008
trade, brewing and legal consultants Why they are on the list: They are four of the best-known consultants in the licensed trade, to whom people turn...
19 Rob Hayward chief executive, British Beer & Pub Association (19) Mark Hastings director, British Beer & Pub Association (19) Nick Bish chief executive, Association of Licensed Multiple Retailers (19) Paul Smith chief executive, Noctis (27) Jo
29-May-2008
Why they are on the list: These five individuals are the sector's key spokespeople. Hayward and Bish head up two of the industry's best-known trade...
Focus North East: Timothy Taylor
28-May-2008
As a rule you can pretty much guarantee that behind closed doors the brewing fraternity like to bitch about their rivals. While in public they may...
Roy Beers: Legislation looms for Scotland the Blitzed
28-May-2008
My only real quarrel with the notion that Scotland is drinking itself to death is the implicit idea that this is somehow a completely new phenomenon....
Guinness and Bushmills to sponsor Lions
28-May-2008
Guinness and Bushmills have today been announced as commercial partners of the British & Irish Lions Tour of South Africa in 2009. Guinness, as...
27-May-2008 By John Harrington
Group wants pubcos to publish figures on forfeitures in the last three years
Bushmills enjoying life under Diageo
27-May-2008
You know you've made it when you get yourself on a banknote. Just imagine how many hands your picture will pass through in the course of a day. But...
Fair Pint wants pubcos to share closure facts
27-May-2008 By Matt Eley Matt
A campaign group has urged pubcos to release numbers of its pub forfeitures and surrenders over the last three years. Fair Pint wants to see the...
