Mixability: Mixed with style
13-Nov-2007
For several years we have watched the great and the good of the spirits market try to inspire growth in sales and rekindle interest in the category...
Mixability: Mixing the Mexican
13-Nov-2007
"The problem with tequila is, if you go out on the street and ask 100 people what they think of tequila, 99 will say 'no way, I remember that from...
Mixability: Welcome to the cocktail school
13-Nov-2007
Muddled by Mojitos? Bewildered by Bellinis? Confused by Cosmopolitans? Many pubs find cocktails daunting, but significant numbers are discovering an...
Mixability: Time to mix it up
13-Nov-2007
Cocktails! Why does that word fill licensees with dread? The answer is quite simply a lack of knowledge, not just of the the art of producing good...
'Supermarkets' beer cheaper than bottled water'
11-Nov-2007
Supermarkets are selling beer at a cheaper price than water, fuelling concern over their role in Britain's binge-drinking crisis. Despite repeated...
09-Nov-2007
Cumbria brewer Jennings hosts World's Biggest Liar competition
Moorhouse's unveils TV ad campaign
09-Nov-2007
Lancashire brewer Moorhourse's has announced the launch of a new TV advertising campaign.The advert, which will be shown in the Granada and Yorkshire...
NEWS OF THE BREWS
08-Nov-2007
Mr Scrooge's Humbug Stockport-based Frederic Robinson has introduced a Christmas beer as its last seasonal cask brew for 2007. Mr Scrooge's Humbug...
Project Update 9: Bearing Fruit
08-Nov-2007
The White Hart has been faring well over the past month - and our category champions have praised licensees Simon Tanner and Carlos Alfaro for their...
Project Update 9: Making the most of Christmas
08-Nov-2007
Hack & Spade licensees Anne and Alastair Dowson-Park are ready for a Christmas that could provide a valuable boost as they look to sell their pub...
Project Update 9: Food profits up
08-Nov-2007
THE CHAMPIONS' attentions to the food operation at Barcena have really paid dividends this month, with the high street bar achieving record profits...
The Wine School: Grape varieties
08-Nov-2007
Creating a succinct wine list from scratch is no mean feat, particularly with the vast array of wines available. A trip to any of the major trade...
Pub bosses question Carlsberg/Heineken move for S&N
08-Nov-2007 By Hamish Champ
UK pub bosses questioned the rationale and the prospects for success of Carlsberg/Heineken's approach for Scottish & Newcastle (S&N).The...
Guinness reaches Tipping Point
08-Nov-2007
Diageo is today unveiing 'Tipping Point', a new £10m advertising campaign for Guinness.Carrying on the 'good things come to those who wait' message...
Competition report is divorced from reality
08-Nov-2007
London Road in St Albans, Hertfordshire, leads travellers from the south to the heart of the city, with its magnificent Norman cathedral, and a Roman...
The quest for fine beer
08-Nov-2007
The striking contrast between beer and wine appreciation deserves closer attention, says Andrew Jefford About a month ago, I found myself in the St...
S&N sees further growth in Russian business
07-Nov-2007 By Hamish Champ
Scottish & Newcastle (S&N) today said it believes there is considerably more growth to come from Russia's beer market.Announcing third...
06-Nov-2007
Courage Best has signed a deal to become the official beer of darts. Courage Best will become the official beer of the 2007 PasrtyBets.com Grand Slam...
From Glastonbury to the Championship...
01-Nov-2007
It would be fair to say that the seeds of the pear cider revolution in the UK were sown in a field in Somerset. The Glastonbury festival may have...
Conquerors from the north
01-Nov-2007
If I was to tell you that there is a cider brand sold in UK pubs that has 50 different fan clubs devoted to it on social networking website Facebook,...
The future is pear
01-Nov-2007
Ah, the humble pear. For so long the less-talented, less-feted partner to the apple; the Art Garfunkel to Paul Simon, the Ernie Wise to Eric...
Roy Beers: Scottish pubs offer the Tartan Army a fair-priced date with destiny
01-Nov-2007
Unhappily it turns out November 17 is also the date when one the country's unluckiest kings, John Balliol, ascended the throne in 1292 - which isn't...
Government bans sales of Sovio wine
01-Nov-2007
A Government agency has banned all sales of Sovio semi-sparkling wine, stating it breaches European regulations. The Wine Standards Branch (WSB),...
01-Nov-2007 By Ewan Turney
The Food Standards Agency has banned sales of a low alcohol wine, claiming it breaches European regulations. The Wine Standards Branch (WSB) of the...
Carlsberg delivers a heavy blow
01-Nov-2007
Freetrade licensees are understandably furious that Carlsberg is to charge them £5 for scheduled deliveries and £10 for unscheduled deliveries from...
BrandsBriefs
01-Nov-2007
Neame's festive fare UK's oldest brewer, Shepherd Neame, has launched its seasonal Christmas Ale and claims it is a perfect accompaniment to...
Carlsberg hits back at Scottish & Newcastle over BBH agreement claims
31-Oct-2007 By Hamish Champ
The war of words between Carlsberg and Scottish & Newcastle (S&N) was stepped up yet again today, with the Danish brewer officially rebuffing...
Harveys revamps range
31-Oct-2007
Beam Global has unveiled brand new packaging for Harvey's sherry, a move Beam is calling the most radical change for the brand on over a decade.The...
Pub prospers from travel offer
31-Oct-2007
The Bell at Alderminster in Warwickshire has branched out into the travel trade by offering its customers wine tasting package tours to France.Mike...
The English Beer Revolution
29-Oct-2007 By Hamish Champ
On entering the director's boardroom of Charles Wells there is no escaping the beady eye of the man who founded the Bedford brewer in 1846, the...
Bud brewer reports £13.7m pre-tax loss
25-Oct-2007 By The PMA Team
Pre-tax losses at Budweiser brewer Anheuser Busch Europe, whose key market is the UK, have jumped to £13.7m for its most recent financial year to...
London regional focus: Back to the old school
25-Oct-2007
If you go onto the Meantime Brewery website and click on the biography link for brewmaster Alistair Hook, you are taken to a mugshot of Hollywood...
25-Oct-2007 By Rosie Davenport
Greene King is investing in a major ale launch it believes will take the category into new territory by combining the best attributes of leading...
Tynemill to be renamed Castle Rock
25-Oct-2007
The Nottingham-based pub operator, Tynemill, which operates over 20 pubs in the East Midlands and Yorkshire, is to take on the name of the company's...
NEWS OF THE BREWS
25-Oct-2007
Castle Rock Castle Rock Brewery has been given a makeover, with redesigned pump-clips for all of its beers. This includes Harvest Pale and new...
Carlsberg brings in delivery charges
25-Oct-2007 By Ewan Turney ewan.turney@william-reed.co.uk
Brewer Carlsberg has rocked the freetrade by introducing a delivery supplement charge. The brewer will introduce a charge of £5 to all scheduled...
Whisky focus: Caledonian conquerors
23-Oct-2007
Perhaps the strangest piece of the rather complex scotch whisky puzzle is the huge strength of the export market for scotch whisky distillers in...
Whisky focus: Single minded
23-Oct-2007
While blends struggle to find the light in the reflected glow of sexy bourbons and quality Irish whiskeys, single malts are beginning to find more...
Whisky focus: The problem with blends
23-Oct-2007
It is time to investigate the curious case of blended whisky. It is a strange one indeed. For a start, let's look at the facts:• Blended whisky, or...
Whisky focus: What now for whisky?
23-Oct-2007
Jon, Mark and Robbo (JMR). Those names may ring a bell. If you've been keeping an eye on spirits innovation over the last five years or so, you might...
Hamish Champ: Drinking lots of beer in Paris has consequences
22-Oct-2007 By Hamish Champ
Sometimes one comes across cultural differences between the peoples of two nations that are so stark, so… gulf-like in their make-up, that one...
S&N, pubco's and food
19-Oct-2007 By Hamish Champ
Things can move fast in the pub and brewing game. By the time you read this Scottish & Newcastle (S&N) could have sent Carlsberg and Heineken...
Chang Beer launched to UK pubs
19-Oct-2007
WITH THAI food now a staple of many pub menus, the brewer behind Thailand's best-selling beer is launching a concerted assault on the UK market.Chang...
Q&A: Glen Cooper
18-Oct-2007
Australian beers are largely seen in the UK as quite neutral thirst quenchers. How do the Coopers brands differ?It's chalk and cheese. The blandness...
S&N blasts "unwelcome move
18-Oct-2007 By Hamish Champ
Consolidation fever has swept through the UK's brewing sector after European giants Carlsberg and Heineken confirmed they were launching a bid for...
18-Oct-2007 By Ewan Turney
Carlsberg has rocked the free trade by introducing a delivery supplement charge. The brewer will introduce a charge of £5 to all scheduled...
What every good microbrewer should know
18-Oct-2007
The assembled group comprised a smattering of the great and the good of the cask-beer world. The location was the Edgar Wallace pub in the centre of...
Growing the grape
18-Oct-2007
It's boom time for wine as drinkers are paying more than ever for a bottle. Nigel Huddleston picks out the trends to follow to keep growth going You...
Court closes con firms
18-Oct-2007 By John Harrington john.harrington@william-reed.co.u
Four firms that have conned pubs into paying for ads in nonexistent publications for the emergency services have been wound up. Wirral-based KDM...
Ale's golden age has dawned
18-Oct-2007
There was a buzz of optimism at Lord's cricket ground last Saturday. No cricket was being played, of course: too cold and damp for that. The...
