Lord Blyth to retire as Chairman of Diageo
19-Jul-2007
The Board of Diageo plc has today announced the appointment of Dr Franz Humer as the next chairman of Diageo plc. Dr Humer will take up his...
19-Jul-2007 By Roger Protz
When, some 30 years ago, I set out to write an article about the new Ringwood Brewery, in Hampshire, the term "micro" was in its infancy. There was...
Beer nirvana
19-Jul-2007
Camra's 30th birthday celebrations are among highlights at this year's Great British Beer Festival. Adrian Tierney-Jones reports Forget high-season...
NEWS OF THE BREWS
19-Jul-2007
Newcastle Brown Ale Gateshead's Millennium Bridge is featured for the first time on a new-look label for Newcastle Brown. The limited-edition label...
Pilsner Urquell searches for Master Bartender
18-Jul-2007
Bartenders are invited to enter a Pilsner Urquell initiative that will see them compete against colleagues from across the world to be crowned a...
Premiership Preview: getting behind the brands
18-Jul-2007
Major drinks companies are once again getting behind the Premier League season, all with the aim of raising their brands' profiles among football...
Premiership Preview: not in front of the kids
18-Jul-2007
The 2007/2008 season is set to be the last time alcohol branding can be placed on children's replica football shirts, following a Portman Group...
18-Jul-2007
Heineken UK has today announced the appointment of David Forde, as the new managing director for the Dutch-brewer's UK business. David, aged 39, was...
Bols unveils bartending academy in Amsterdam
16-Jul-2007
Liqueur brand Bols has launched a purpose-built bartending academy in its home city of Amsterdam.The Bols Bartender Academy is housed in the House of...
16-Jul-2007
Old Speckled Hen has been awarded a 'Brand to Watch' accolade by the Superbrands organisation. Old Speckled Hen was selected by a panel of 20...
13-Jul-2007
Super-chef Michel Roux this year's 'Beer Drinker of the Year' and Steve Wellington, of Worthington's voted 'Brewer of the Year' - by the All-Party Parliamentary Beer Group.
Q&A: Cooley and the gang
13-Jul-2007
You predicted last year that Irish whiskey sales and the category's image in the UK would be re-invigorated over the following months. Has this...
13-Jul-2007 By Christine Boggis of Off Licence News
Magners is facing a strike at its production plant in Ireland after making a number of changes to keep up with unprecedented demand for its cider....
12-Jul-2007 By Roger Protz
Does your beer taste better now that the smoking ban has arrived, asks Roger Protz?
Versatility for Bacardi
11-Jul-2007
Bacardi is looking to create greater loyalty and rate of sale through its new "Versatility" marketing campaign.Announced last month, the £15m...
GBBF Preview: Best of the bunch
10-Jul-2007
"Golden ale is a rapidly growing style of beer and one that will appeal to younger drinkers and women as well as real ale aficionados. It's a...
10-Jul-2007 By Ewan Turney
London-based operator Young's has reported a strong start to the year. Sales at pubs opened this year are up 15.4% and up 6.3% at existing managed...
Brakspear pubco gets a revamp
09-Jul-2007 By Hamish Champ
JT Davies has 'relaunched' the Henley-On-Thames pubco Brakspear, which it bought last year for £106m.The new-look company will be called the...
09-Jul-2007
Greene King IPA has extended its relationship with rugby union's Harlequins. The new, improved deal sees Greene King IPA move from being an official...
Global Star pubco snaps up Walsall's historic Highgate Brewery
05-Jul-2007
A little-known pubco has bought Walsall's historic Highgate Brewery. Global Star, which operates about 100 pubs in the West Mid-lands, paid an undisclosed sum to Aston Manor Brewery, the owner of Highgate.
Thwaites rises to challenges
05-Jul-2007 By The PMA Team
Northern brewer and retailer Daniel Thwaites' 200-year-anniversary celebrations have helped the group report a 9.5 % growth in profit before tax to...
Chris Maclean: Proud of my beer
05-Jul-2007 By Chris Maclean
The other night I visited a local freehouse near here. It is a nice little pub and I like the company of the landlord. It is small and clean with a...
Wholesaler focus: A quality delivery
05-Jul-2007
WAVERLEYTBS WAS formed in 2004 by Scottish & Newcastle (S&N) through the merger of two separate companies:Waverley and The Beer Seller (a...
Wholesaler focus: Supply and demand
05-Jul-2007
IT USED to be so simple. Customers came in for a pint and a fag, had a selection of perhaps three flavours of crisp and two kinds of sandwich to...
05-Jul-2007 By John Harrington
Opus backs down and offers a refund to victim licensees
Canadian IPA mounts campaign
05-Jul-2007
A draught IPA brewed in Canada is being launched in the UK, with real-ale pubs as its main target. The 5.3% abv Sleeman's IPA is being imported by...
New plant for Woodforde's
05-Jul-2007 By Tony Halstead
Norfolk independent brewer Woodforde's is to invest £500,000 in new brewing plant to satisfy soaring demand for its cask beers. The new 60-barrel...
05-Jul-2007
The first time I met George Bateman, he took me on a tour of his brewery in Wainfleet, in Lincolnshire. The gesture was typical of the man: George...
InBrief
05-Jul-2007
Fond farewell to George Bateman A memorial service for George Gunson Bateman, JP, chairman of Batemans brewery, will be held at 1pm on Monday 23 July...
Brewing the Burton way
03-Jul-2007
It is a little known fact that Alistair Darby, managing director of Marston's Brewing Company, judges much about a person on first meeting them upon...
S&N's UK first half operating profits down
03-Jul-2007 By Hamish Champ
Scottish & Newcastle (S&N) expects its UK operating profits to be lower in the first half than last year, thanks to rising input costs, poor...
03-Jul-2007 By Graham Ridout
A little-known pubco has bought Walsall's historic Highgate Brewery. Global Star, which operates around 100 pubs in the West Midlands, paid an...
Coffee Solutions
01-Jul-2007
QWe are limited for space on our back bar and don't feel we have room for a full-size espresso machine, but I want to sell top-quality coffee. What...
28-Jun-2007 By The PMA Team
Northern brewer and retailer Daniel Thwaites' 200-year-anniversary celebrations have helped the group report a 9.5 % growth in profit before tax to...
South East Focus: English wines
28-Jun-2007
I would imagine the first thought for anyone who finds themselves on the M25 motorway is to get off it as quickly as possible. But if you find...
Glastonbury's mud, sweat and beers
28-Jun-2007
When the rain's coming down in sheets and the earth's being splattered about faster than an Olympic mud-pie fight, music lovers at the Glastonbury...
Making a meal of the beer
28-Jun-2007
Greene King kick-started the drive to encourage drinkers to match beer with food with a special brew called The Beer To Dine For. It was one of the...
The big man who saved a small brewery
28-Jun-2007
George Bateman, the brewer of 'good honest ales', has died at the age of 80. Roger Protz assesses his career and legacy George Bateman, who died on...
Whyte and Mackay launches "super premium" range
26-Jun-2007
Whyte and Mackay has launched a range of super premium whiskies that it hopes will create a "halo effect" around the brand in the on-trade.While the...
Caledonian Brewing Company raises £3,000 for charity
26-Jun-2007 By Eleanor Goodman
Staff at the Caledonian Brewing Company raised £3,000 for the Scottish Community Foundation by completing a 54 mile walk in just one day.Six people...
25-Jun-2007 By The PMA Team
George Bateman, the head of Lincolnshire family brewer George Bateman & Son, has died. Mr George, as he was affectionately known at the...
The Cocktail Challenge
21-Jun-2007
For the last couple of years a lot has been written in these pages and a lot has been said in training courses across the country about the potential...
A Brew to be Proud of
21-Jun-2007
There's more to making a decent cask ale than most pub-goers realise.A lot more - and doesn't The Publican team know it!We travelled to Leicester to...
Cider goes global
21-Jun-2007
Cider is on the march and much of the impetus is coming from abroad. Adrian Tierney-Jones reports from the International Exhibition of Quality Cider...
21-Jun-2007 By Roger Protz
Hawk-eyed readers may recall that I wrote recently about beer and pubs living in two parallel universes. There's one inhabited by the global brewers...
19-Jun-2007 By John Harrington
Portman Group announces new rules
Beer deals compared to washing-up liquid
19-Jun-2007 By James Wilmore
A senior pubco figure has hit out at a claim that the way people buy beer from supermarkets, and the rate they consume it, can be compared to...
Amstel focuses on laid-back drinking
19-Jun-2007
Amstel is to launch a new marketing campaign that aims to help Britain experience the laid-back drinking culture of Amsterdam and promises...
Cellar to Glass: line cleaning
15-Jun-2007
Attend any cellar management course and one of the lessons that will be driven home to you over and over again is that you must clean your beer lines...
Cellar to Glass: plastic casks
15-Jun-2007
The crisis at Trenstar has highlighted once again one of the most intractable problems facing the pub and brewing industries.Theft of stainless steel...
