Raw and ready
18-Feb-2008
Britvic has officially announced the launch of a new premium Pepsi brand, exclusively to the UK licensed sector. Pepsi Raw has been created using a...
NEWS OF THE BREWS
14-Feb-2008
Acorn Brewery Yorkshire's Acorn Brewery has announced details of the single-hopped US ales it will be showcasing throughout 2008. Introduced in...
14-Feb-2008 By Noli Dinkovski
InBev UK is to replace Bock Artois with an oak-aged lager made from an original continental recipe, the MA can reveal. Eiken Artois - the first in a...
14-Feb-2008 By Ewan Turney
Tax increases on beer have been "self defeating" and have actually eroded Treasury revenues
14-Feb-2008 By Roger Protz
Beer writer Roger Protz says the media should have made more of the SIBA report on soaring cask sales
Npower grants contract reprieve to licensee
14-Feb-2008
A licensee who faced soaring electricity bills because he did not contact Npower three months before his contract ended has been granted a reprieve....
Neame calls for fairer beer tax
14-Feb-2008
Shepherd Neame chief executive Jonathan Neame has called for fairer treatment of beer in the Budget. Speaking in a Radio Four debate on You and...
Comment: Proud of beer
13-Feb-2008
At this time of year people's minds turn towards the Budget. Brewers live in hope of a fair deal for beer, but fear continuation of existing...
Calm before the storm
13-Feb-2008
On March 12 Chancellor Alistair Darling will step out of Number 11 Downing Street clutching a small red briefcase containing his first Budget as...
12-Feb-2008 By Tony Halstead
The Campaign For Real Ale is calling for a 1p cut in beer duty to help get drinkers back into local community pubs
S&N to close Berkshire brewery
12-Feb-2008
More than 350 staff at Scottish & Newcastle's (S&N) Berkshire brewery stand to lose their jobs following today's announcement that the group...
12-Feb-2008
Diageo's Old Bushmills Distillery is to feature on new banknotes in Northern Ireland. The new-look bank notes will come into circulation in April,...
Pepsi launches Raw
11-Feb-2008 By Noli Dinkovski
Britvic has launched a new Pepsi made from natural ingredients exclusively for upmarket pubs and style bars. Capitalising on the growing demand for...
'Licensee barred from selling beer by landlord'
10-Feb-2008
A pub landlord has been barred from serving beer by a brewery (sic). Graham Smith, 51, and wife Carole, 50, owe Punch Taverns £4,800 in rent. And...
08-Feb-2008 By Ewan Turney
Freedom For Pubs Association frontman Mike Bell attacked the beer tie live on Radio 4 earlier today. Speaking on the You and Yours programme Bell...
SIBA reports volume growth
07-Feb-2008
Microbrewers enjoyed growth in sales of almost 11 per cent in 2007, according to the Local Beer Report 2008 published this week by the Society of...
Pub goes on strike after beer prices rise
07-Feb-2008
A licensee has closed the doors of his century-old pub in protest at rising beer prices from Marston's.Carl Sherratt of The Poacher, in Bolton,...
Hib joins health drink ranks
07-Feb-2008
The Hibiscus Drinks Company has added to the trend for healthier soft drinks by launching the UK's first "superflower" drink. Hib! is made from the...
07-Feb-2008 By Roger Protz
Beer writer Roger Protz considers the church wading in to the booze debate
BBPA: trade needs freeze on beer duty
07-Feb-2008 By Ewan Turney ewan.turney@william-reed.co.uk
A trade body has called for a freeze on beer duty to help brewers and pubs deal with the "perfect storm" of declining sales, rising input costs and...
06-Feb-2008
Diageo and the Nolet family have formed a 50/50 company, which will own the rights to Ketel One vodka
In search of a hangover cure
06-Feb-2008
ALIBI IS boldly branded the world¹s first 'pre-tox' drink. It is designed, according to its producers, to "prepare the body and process toxins,...
The spirit of the South
06-Feb-2008
Sundown, and it's like an invisible force-field has been thrown up around the Royal Sonesta. Beyond the swinging glass doors the crazies of Bourbon...
Roy Beers: A Minister intent on mixing it with the Scottish pub trade
06-Feb-2008
Publicans and trade groups were happy when he was making plenty of bellicose statements about tackling deep-discounting in the off-trade - and about...
05-Feb-2008 By Ewan Turney
Beatles album-cover artist Sir Peter Blake has designed a new label for Cains Finest Lager. Blake, dubbed the "godfather of pop art", designed the...
04-Feb-2008 By Ewan Turney
Amy Winehouse and Kate Moss are heading up a campaign to save an historic London pub. The celebrity pair have been roped in to help save the George...
04-Feb-2008
Heineken is rolling out a new line-up of rugby-themed point-of-sale material in the lead-up to the Heineken Cup Final in May. At the heart of the POS...
04-Feb-2008 By Ewan Turney
Brewers and pubs face the perfect storm of rising costs and smoke ban
01-Feb-2008 By Noli Dinkovski
Guinness plans to spend £3m on its St Patrick's Day campaign
Comment: Too much flavour?
01-Feb-2008
I read last week that a major cider brand owner has launched a blueberry cider. Not the most staggering story ever. But it does provoke mixed...
'Soft drinks bigger gout risk than alcohol'
01-Feb-2008
Fizzy drinks can dramatically increase the risk of gout, it is claimed. As sales plummet over other health concerns, scientists revealed yesterday...
The American way
01-Feb-2008
American brewer Garrett Oliver tells Lucy Britner why Americans get food and beer right Garrett Oliver is brewmaster at Brooklyn Brewery, New York....
Heineken's hopes for the future
31-Jan-2008 By The PMA Team
As Carlsberg and Heineken buy S&N, Heineken chief executive Jean-François van Boxmeer reveals his plans Heineken chief executive Jean-François...
Cask Beer: The market under the microscope
31-Jan-2008
If you speak to anyone in the cask ale industry, be they brewer, marketeer or managing director, they are more positive now than they have been for...
Cask Beer: Moving on up
31-Jan-2008
Lat month I revealed a love of American political jargon. I suggested that the beer market needed some Barack Obama-style 'bounce' Well here's...
SoCo looks to own February
31-Jan-2008
Southern Comfort is planning on 'owning' February with the launch of the SoCo Mardi Gras Month. Activity throughout the month will see SoCo pushing...
JW Lees unveils new seasonal cask range
31-Jan-2008
JW Lees is launching three new cask beers and has revealed plans to introduce a full range of seasonal and special occasion beers for the first time,...
S&NPE licensees wary after takeover
31-Jan-2008
Licensees are still waiting to find out how Heineken and Carlsberg's £7.6bn deal to takeover Scottish & Newcastle (S&N) will affect them....
Trading on track, claims Cains Beer Company
31-Jan-2008 By Hamish Champ
Cains, the 100-pub strong Liverpool-based pubco and brewer, says it had made progress throughout its estate despite the impact of the smoking ban,...
31-Jan-2008 By Roger Protz
Beer expert Roger Protz considers the hops of Britain
The great wine dilemma
31-Jan-2008
When it comes to wine should you offer big brands or go for smaller producers, asks Nigel Huddleston One big decision for any pub with a free rein in...
Heineken heiress gets her wish
31-Jan-2008
When S&N's shareholders finally accepted Heineken and Carlsberg's overtures, the ink on the contract was barely dry before the Campaign for Real...
Young's buys three Capital pubs
30-Jan-2008 By Hamish Champ
Capital Pub Company has sold three freehold pubs to South London operator Young & Co in an £8.5m deal.One of the sites, the Cock & Hen in...
Red Bull pushes Sugarfree
30-Jan-2008
Red Bull has unveiled its plans for Sugarfree in 2008 with heavyweight support in the on-trade to raise consumer awareness, educate about product...
30-Jan-2008 By Ewan Turney
An MP has called for pubs to be forced to sell wine in 125ml glasses. Lib Dem health spokesman Greg Mulholland, a member of the All-Party...
Comment: Time for InBev to grow up
29-Jan-2008
It was just a normal Monday morning. Scottish & Newcastle had just opened its books to the Carlsberg consortium. And yet my thoughts were...
Nick Yates: Fuller's fires starting pistol for London Marathon
29-Jan-2008
So Fuller's London Pride, one of the headline sponsors of the London Marathon, wanted support from our magazine in the form of one of The Publican...
Mixability: The dawn of the ice age
29-Jan-2008
Such is the appeal of ice in the on-trade drink experience that "icy" innovation is coming into the sector thick and fast. Here we profile two...
Mixability focus: Cold temperature, cool serve?
29-Jan-2008
I mean, it's just bloody frozen water after all. How the hell did we end up here? It will remain one of the great mysteries of my professional life...
Draught wine set to Blossom
29-Jan-2008
Last week we exclusively revealed the launch of Blossom Hill's Perfect Glass draught system. It is a bespoke draught wine font, fitted with a choice...
