18-Jul-2006 By Iain O'Neil
A complaint about ads for Spitfire Ale which showed Italian footballers surrendering with cries of 'don't shoot' have been upheld by the Advertising...
14-Jul-2006 By Iain O'Neil
British men spend an average of £1,144 a year cultivating their beer guts according to research. Private medical insurer PruHealth commissioned...
Quinn's ripe for Diageo
14-Jul-2006 By Jo Grobel
Diageo is launching a TV ad campaign for Quinn's fruit ferment as part of an £8.5m marketing splash behind the newcomer. Quinn's, introduced in...
Licensees need to be inventive over beer pricing
13-Jul-2006
Licensees need to be more inventive with how they price beer in their pubs, according a senior figure at one of Britain's biggest brewers.Steve...
13-Jul-2006 By Lucy Britner
Pubs can afford to charge higher prices for beer and should adopt a more flexible policy, according to Stella Artois brewer InBev. InBev's managing...
Leffe builds on quality image
12-Jul-2006
InBev has launched a new advertising campaign to support Leffe, its increasingly popular speciality beer brand.The campaign, which will run for 10...
Beer Lao launches in UK
12-Jul-2006
Beer Lao, a new import from the south east Asian country of Laos, has been launched exclusively into the UK on-trade. The beer is being imported by...
Young's can taste success with brewery move
11-Jul-2006
Young's is convinced pub customers will not be able to taste the difference when its beers move from their traditional home in Wandsworth to the...
07-Jul-2006
A Camra award-winning village pub and its gardens have been saved from becoming an executive housing estate - thanks to a villager buying it and...
Adams' new eve for ales - Feature
06-Jul-2006 By Rosie Davenport
Greene King Brewing's MD is on a mission to turn around the fortunes of ale. In his first interview since stepping into the top job last September, Justin Adams shares his vision with Rosie Davenport
06-Jul-2006 By The PMA Team
Brewer Daniel Thwaites has reported a decline in pre-tax profit after record regulatory costs in the year to 31 March 2006. The brewer saw pre-tax...
Liqueurs and shooters have it licked
06-Jul-2006
According to a report by market researcher Mintel, sales of liqueurs are growing despite the fact fewer people are drinking them. Overall, volume...
A drink for all seasons
06-Jul-2006
On the hottest week of the year Eliot's Spiced hot wine has unveiled a new strategy to make mulled wine a drink for all seasons.The brand made a big...
06-Jul-2006
Crossing swords with a fellow columnist is a dangerous course of action. The dispute could rumble on, turn and turn about, until we both disappear up...
New brewery seeks to educate
06-Jul-2006
A microbrewery with a difference has opened its doors in West Yorkshire. Paul Simpson and Tony Gartland spent £500,000 on developing the Saltaire...
A bit special
05-Jul-2006
In the drinks industry we never seem to tire of categorising things. There are the endless categories we put drinks into - be it simply beer, wine...
03-Jul-2006 By The PMA Team
Deuchars IPA, the award-winning beer and flagship brand of the Edinburgh based Caledonian Brewing Company, is being rolled out in 30 of Massive's 40...
30-Jun-2006 By Rosie Davenport
InBev UK is testing a citrus-flavoured, half-strength version of Beck's lager in a handful of independent on-trade outlets in Glasgow. Beck's Green...
29-Jun-2006 By Ewan Turney
Beer prices could face a substantial hike after Britain's major keg supplier doubled its charges. TrenStar owns more than 60% of the nation's beer...
29-Jun-2006 By Ewan Turney
The "Magners halo effect" helped the cider market grow in the past year, in contrast to cask ale, which continued its decline. Figures from market...
Proving the brewery wrong
29-Jun-2006
When Paul Clerehugh took on the Crooked Billet in Stoke Row, Oxfordshire, the pub was on its knees, but he's made it a £1m turnover outlet by dint of sheer hard work, sticking to basics and listening to his locals
Independence Day quiz: it's no tea party
28-Jun-2006
Yes, we should never have let them go off on their own but it's too late now and, hey, there's no reason why we shouldn't celebrate American...
Disunity in the beer world
28-Jun-2006
There was a bit of a hullabaloo surrounding the launch of Coors Sub Zero two weeks ago. Such a launch normally only reaches the pages of the trade...
Moorhouse's reveals plans for £1m brewery
28-Jun-2006
Award-winning brewer Moorhouse's has announced its £1m vision for a new brewery in Burnley.David Grant, managing director of the brewer, last week...
28-Jun-2006 By Iain O'Neil
Cains the Liverpool brewery rescued by Ajmail and Sudarghara Dusanj continues to go from strength to strength having just signed a deal with...
Comment: Legislation is needed to save local beers and brewers
26-Jun-2006 By Hamish Champ
In 1989 the UK's independent brewing community breathed a sigh of relief as the Beer Orders finally broke the stranglehold of the national brewers...
23-Jun-2006 By The PMA Team
World Champion cask-ale brewer Moorhouse's has unveiled its £1m vision for the future of its Lancashire brewery. The investment will allow...
Coors Sub Zero 'coldest in world'
23-Jun-2006 By Rosie Davenport
Coors Brewers is launching a new drink it claims is the world's coldest-ever draught beer. Served at -2.5ºC, Coors Sub Zero uses "space age"...
Batemans tenant takes on red-tape buster role
22-Jun-2006 By The PMA Team
Lincolnshire family brewer and retailer George Bateman & Son has appointed one of its tenants as a full-time red-tape buster. David Philips,...
Coors Fine Light goes Sub Zero
22-Jun-2006
Coors Brewers has unveiled new technology enabling licensees to serve the world's first sub-zero pint of lager.Coors Sub Zero has been eight years in...
22-Jun-2006 By Roger Protz
Jonathan Webster, the managing director of Hardys & Hansons in Nottingham, says: "ale lovers will get a better deal" from his company's takeover,...
Calling all micros!
22-Jun-2006
SIBA's Local Brewing Business Awards aim
Drinks Doctor: Desperate House Wines
21-Jun-2006
A phrase that has become as much a part of a pub-goers' bar-call repertoire as a "pint of lager" and a "packet of pork scratchings", is "a glass of...
BAR. 06 round-up
16-Jun-2006
Despite not having the loudest stand (that honour belonged to Charles Wells' Corona) Cobra certainly had one of the most striking. And it was at the...
16-Jun-2006 By Iain O'Neil
Heineken UK launches a new promotion giving consumers the chance to win a KEF 'instant DVD theatre' in selected bars throughout June and July. The...
Soft Drinks report - Getting fresh: the next big thing?
15-Jun-2006 By Rosie Davenport
Pure fruit juice is being hailed as the future banker for pubs and suppliers are making sure there is plenty of choice
15-Jun-2006 By The PMA Team
London brewer and retailer Fuller's has joined the growing clamour over progressive beer duty and the way it is distorting the cask ale market....
Soft Drinks Report 2006
15-Jun-2006
What are soft drinks for? It sounds like a daft question, but if you haven't thought too deeply about the role that soft drinks play at your pub you...
Pub trade says "aye" to Cyclops
15-Jun-2006
Leicester brewer Everards' new tasting notes system looks set to be adopted as an industry standard.The Cyclops system displays simple eyes, nose and...
Britvic to introduce PET J2O bottles
15-Jun-2006
Britvic is to introduce non-glass packaging for its J2O juice brand as it looks to innovate in the on-trade. Both the apple & mango and orange...
15-Jun-2006 By Jo Grobel
Licensees Richard Strzyzewski and Jacquie Ackroyd have won the ultimate prize - their annual rent of about £25,000 will be paid for them in the...
Sam Smith gets tough on 5% head
15-Jun-2006 By Ewan Turney
Yorkshire brewer and operator Samuel Smith has put pressure on its managers to serve every pint of draught beer with a 5% head. The company has...
In Session... with Ben McFarland
14-Jun-2006
It's a fair bet that the drinking demands of hordes of England fans will be somewhat lost in translation this summer. Reebok Classics twitching in...
S&N adds fruit cider to growing portfolio
14-Jun-2006
Scottish & Newcastle UK (S&N UK) has added another brand to its cider portfolio as it continues to meet rival Magners head on.Jacques is a...
13-Jun-2006 By The PMA Team
Nottingham brewer and retailer Hardys & Hansons has admitted it is in the early stages of take-over discussions after a number of approaches....
13-Jun-2006 By The PMA Team
Everards agrees to sell its independent free trade business to WaverleyTBS
12-Jun-2006 By Iain O'Neil
Two east London licensees have been fined for passing off cheap spirits as brand names like Smirnoff and Bacardi. The Cross Keys in Dagenham and the...
08-Jun-2006
The Dusanj brothers, the entrepreneurs who rescued the Cains brewery business in Liverpool, have made their first profit at the company after...
Magnificent seven ride to rescue of cask beer
06-Jun-2006
Research by seven of Britian's biggest regional brewers has shown licensees need to cut down the number of cask ale brands in their pubs to ensure...
06-Jun-2006 By Andrew Pring
Leading ale brewers have formed a think-tank dedicated to breathing new life into the declining cask market. Called "Why Handpull?", the new group...
