Training & Recruitment: food safety
20-Apr-2007
With 70,000 food poisoning incidents in the UK every year*, and outbreaks in restaurants at a nine year high**, safe food practices to protect...
Thwaites makes clear it's not for sale
19-Apr-2007 By Mark Wingett mark.wingett@william-reed.co.uk
Daniel Thwaites, the Lancashire-based brewer and pub operator, has celebrated its 200th anniversary by declaring it is not for sale and setting out a...
Evening: cocktails for party nights
18-Apr-2007
Cocktails are still considered by many to be the domain of the style bar, confined within city centres, to be drunk by the young, cool and trendy.Not...
JDW to mix it up
18-Apr-2007
Next month JD Wetherspoon is to launch a new cocktail range to capitalise on the growing popularity of speciality spirits such as sambuca.So far the...
Cape Crusaders
17-Apr-2007
I first visited the townships that surround Cape Town airport eight years ago. On the whole things look slightly better now than then - there are...
Aspalls launches pink cider
17-Apr-2007
Aspall, makers of super premium Aspall Suffolk Cider, has launched a new pink cider to try and capitalise on the increasing popularity of rosé wine...
S&N agrees brewing deal for Baltika
16-Apr-2007
Scottish and Newcastle (S&N) has announced a new agreement to produce Russian lager Baltika under licence in the UK.The brand is currently...
Q&A: Sweating over juniper
12-Apr-2007
What exactly is your role in the gin production process?Running a still is literally like watching a kettle boil every day, but the key areas are the...
Fior Brands re-launches Midori
12-Apr-2007
Fior Brands has unveiled a new bottle design and health-conscious recipe modification for its melon liqueur Midori.The new look was launched today...
Chilled draught Magners trialled
12-Apr-2007
IRISH DRINKS company C&C, which owns Bulmers in Ireland and Magners in Great Britain, is trialling a super-chilled draught version of the cider...
Fuller's takes Discovery down the chilled route
12-Apr-2007
Fuller's has announced that blonde beer Discovery will now only be available in chilled format across its own estate and the entire freetrade.The...
NEWS OF THE BREWS
12-Apr-2007
Higsons Bitter reborn A legendary name in Liverpool brewing is returning to the city's pubs after an absence of almost 20 years. The first pints of...
11-Apr-2007
Bottles of a Belgian lager displaying a picture of a woman whose clothing can be removed have been stripped from shelves for breaching The Portman...
10-Apr-2007
Fuller's announces Discovery will only be served through a cooler at a temperature of between eight and 10 degrees.
Brains goes Continental
10-Apr-2007
Brains has launched its first continental style beer targeted at 18 - 35 year olds in Wales called 45. Brewed in Cardiff, 45, is made with pure welsh...
05-Apr-2007 By John Harrington
A licensee has been told he must pay Opus Energy an extra £1,813 over six months - after he complained about the supplier's excessive charges....
C2 is the beer of the future in Carling's major ad campaign
05-Apr-2007
Coors Brewers has launched a new advertising campaign for C2 - its lower-strength version of Carling. The £3m campaign started airing last Sunday...
PROTZ
05-Apr-2007
A load of 'Horlicks' I went to the pub and found people enjoying alcohol. They weren't sniffing it, injecting it or smoking it. They were drinking...
Q&A: Entrepreneurial spirit
02-Apr-2007
How would you assess the performance of Beam Brands in the UK since its formation a year ago?It is rare in your career to get hold of a portfolio of...
Wetherspoon beer festival set to be biggest yet
29-Mar-2007 By Graham Ridout & The PMA Team
Managed pub company JD Wetherspoon (JDW) will stage its largest-ever beer festival next month as part of its campaign to double real-ale...
Chris Maclean: cask beer never better
29-Mar-2007 By Chris Maclean
Last night I was invited to give a talk at the district CAMRA AGM on beer keeping. I was flattered to be asked.I duly arrived at the venue and was...
Carlsberg draymen get double digit pay rise
29-Mar-2007 By Hamish Champ
Carlsberg has awarded its UK draymen a ten per cent pay rise.The deal was announced today by the Transport & General Workers Union, which acted...
Coke to launch range of new products
29-Mar-2007
Coca Cola Enterprises (CCE) is to launch a range of new products targeting both adults and children in the on-trade.Schweppes Straightcut, 330ml...
29-Mar-2007 By Roger Protz
Shame on Young's Michael Hardman has been a special friend of mine for a long time. Without Michael as a mentor, I wouldn't be earning a living as a...
Bells ring for two Brewers
29-Mar-2007
Keith and Vanessa Brewer will celebrate 20 years at Alderminster's Bell pub in Warwickshire this April. And their achievement is no mean feat -...
Lewes locals set on restoring Harveys
29-Mar-2007 By Joe Lutrurio joe.lutrurio@william-reed.co.uk
Lewes residents are still conducting anti-Greene King protests outside the Lewes Arms, East Sussex, four months after the brewer stopped serving the...
InBev at the Forester Arms
28-Mar-2007
InBev at the Forester Arms• Visited Forester Arms on March 21 and opened up new account • Agreed to list Stella Atois, Peeterman Artois, Becks...
Speciality spirits: A shot in the arm
28-Mar-2007
There are several names that pop up more than most when tackling the issue of responsible drinking. Shots, and the category's major brands, bear the...
Speciality spirits: All rests on Baileys
28-Mar-2007
THERE IS a particularly fat cat that gets all the cream in cream liqueurs. Dooley's and Carolans are, it must be said, mere kittens compared to the...
Speciality spirits: feeling fruity
28-Mar-2007
Fruit-flavoured speciality spirits tend to be like the fruits they are made from: they burst forth in the summer. The longer, warmer days usher in a...
Speciality spirits: making a name for themselves
28-Mar-2007
IN ANY area of drinks marketing, it's tempting to place pigeons into snugly fitting pigeon holes. Throughout this feature you will find rough...
28-Mar-2007 By Lucy Britner
Greene King is to launch Greene King IPA Chilled. The new brand is an authentic keg beer designed to be served at 4°C from a condensating font....
Focus Scotland: Scottish brewers
27-Mar-2007
An Teallach AleRoss-shire01854 633306Arran BreweryIsle of Arran01770 302353www.arranbrewery.comAtlas BreweryArgyll01855...
Focus Scotland: Tennent's profile
27-Mar-2007
In this world we now live in, where provenance, local sourcing and genuineness is king, standard lager has taken a bit of a knocking. A former head...
Focus Scotland: the Year of Rebus
27-Mar-2007
For the Scottish pub trade, 2007 is set to be the Year of Rebus.Twenty years ago Ian Rankin's first crime novel to feature the 'not very good'...
Make sure your cask is good
23-Mar-2007
The smoking ban has concentrated thinking among pub retailers like nothing else. For the last two years investment strategies have been torn up and...
23-Mar-2007 By Ewan Turney
Hosts should not underestimate the impact good quality beer can have on driving profits after the smoking ban, according to cask-ale think tank Why...
Q&A: Bowled over by Deuchars
22-Mar-2007
Many sports fans, particularly cricket fans, will know the name Gavin Hamilton. After starting his career in county cricket, his exploits for the...
Cheers, landlord!
22-Mar-2007
IT'S NOT every day that when someone has the opportunity to invite anyone in the world on a VIP trip to a rugby international that they invite their...
NEWS OF THE BREWS
22-Mar-2007
Thwaites launches Wainwright Ale Lancashire brewer Thwaites has launched a seasonal ale named after a famous local author as part of its bicentenary...
Beer to drive sales post ban
22-Mar-2007 By Ewan Turney ewan.turney@william-reed.co.uk
Hosts should not underestimate the impact good quality beer can have on driving profits after the smoking ban, according to cask-ale think tank Why...
Slap in the face for pubs and brewers
22-Mar-2007 By John Harrington john.harrington@william-reed.co.u
l Beer up 1p l Cider up 1p l Wine up 5p l Sparkling wine up 7p l Spirits frozen Chancellor Gordon Brown has been accused of turning his back on...
21-Mar-2007
The Wine and Spirit Trade Association welcomes spirit duty freeze but says it is shocked by sparkling wine increase
21-Mar-2007 By Iain O'Neil
Gordon Brown ignores pleas from the trade and raises tax on bar by 1p a pint
Look out for the beer snobs
20-Mar-2007
For those with ambitions of wine connoisseurship, be warned: it's not worth the hassle. Believe me, I tried it once. It was the most confusing day of...
St Peter's plans new £3m brewery
20-Mar-2007 By Hamish Champ
Increased demand for its beers has prompted Suffolk's St Peter's Brewery to look at building a new brewery at a cost of £3m.The company's existing...
Diageo at the Hack & Spade
15-Mar-2007
The Hack and Spade has a good selection of quality brands and also a selection of premium brands, which are all displayed to maximise visibility....
Carling Premier to be relaunched
15-Mar-2007
Coors Brewers has announced it is to relaunch its nitrokeg lager brand Carling Premier.The Burton-based brewer will be putting serious marketing...
Q&A: Keeping your cool
14-Mar-2007
Where did the idea for Filton come from?Filton Brewery Products began life as Filton Engineering - a division of Cox & Hughes - in 1981 when...
Family pubs: the soft option
14-Mar-2007
The smoking ban is set to have a significant impact on pubs as family venues, with four out of 10 adults more likely to take their children into...
