Brewers face crisis over £10m theft of beer kegs
18-Aug-2005
by Tony Halstead Soaring metal prices have led to a surge in the number of stolen beer kegs this year, according to the country's biggest container...
AdiAdi makes debut in UK
18-Aug-2005
A new brew from India is making its debut in the UK as its distributor looks to plug the gap for drinks that complement Asian food.AdiAdi, which...
The people's brewer
18-Aug-2005
Marston's head brewer Stephen Brooks has seen a few changes since he started work at the brewery in 1975. He reflects on 30 years of brewing and...
Courtbound Baltika shareholder sells stake back to S&N
17-Aug-2005
Hartwall Capital has sold its controversial stake in Russian brewer Baltika back to BBH, Scottish & Newcastle/Carlsberg's joint venture in the...
St Peter's Brewery up for sale
15-Aug-2005
Suffolk-based St Peter's Brewery Company is up for sale with a price tag of around £20m.The operation, based at St Peter's Hall near Bungay, is in...
Great British beer pulls in the crowds
11-Aug-2005
The press office at Olympia, site of last week's Great British Beer Festival, has a balcony that is a first-floor eyrie, with a commanding view of...
Record numbers pulled in by the taste of real ale
11-Aug-2005
by MA Reporter The Campaign for Real Ale's Great British Beer Festival saw a record 47,000 visitors at London's Olympia last week. This is an...
Organic nettle beer launched by H&W
11-Aug-2005
A new organic nettle beer, brewed to be enjoyed with a range of dishes, has been unveiled by Dorset brewer Hall & Woodhouse. Stinger made its...
New products
11-Aug-2005
Wychwood Brewery brought its new limited-edition ale to the GBBF a 4.2% abv fruity ale called Battle Axe. Wychwood's head brewer Jeremy Moss said: 'I...
Licensees missing out on imported lager, says NOFIBS
10-Aug-2005
Licensees are missing out on a big opportunity to increase their margins with genuine imported lager.Six out of ten (61 per cent) premium lager...
Badger has a sting in the tail
04-Aug-2005
Dorset brewer Hall & Woodhouse has teamed up with TV chef Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall to produce a new premium ale made with nettles harvested...
Greene King shrugs off GBBF criticism
04-Aug-2005
Greene King has shrugged off criticism it received at the Great British Beer Festival following its decision to close the Ridley's brewery.At the...
Scot turns IPA origins on their head
04-Aug-2005
Is it time to re-evaluate the origins of two 19th-century beer styles, India Pale Ale and Pale Ale? One veteran Scottish brewer, who has just...
How important are real ales to your business?
04-Aug-2005
John Royce Kestor Inn Newton Abbot Devon 'They are very important to us, mainly because people drink them! We have three main ales on and we like to...
Beer and Food - A Taste of Dorset
01-Aug-2005 By Susan Nowak
Susan Nowak reports on a beer and food initiative run by the West Country's Badger Brewery in partnership with small producers in Dorset. Badger...
Avanti report points to new future for drinks advertising
29-Jul-2005
Drinks advertisers are turning away from TV commercials in favour of promoting their brands on pub and bar plasma screens, according to a new...
Carlsberg to inject £11m into Tetley
28-Jul-2005
Carlsberg UK is investing more than £11m in its Tetley's ale brand over the next year.New fonts have been designed for both Tetley's Smoothflow and...
Sheps secures deal to brew Asahi Super Dry
28-Jul-2005
by The PMA Team Shepherd Neame has signed an agreement with Asahi Breweries to brew the number-one Japan-ese beer Asahi Super Dry under licence for...
Unite behind the GBBF... and London
28-Jul-2005
T here were many fine messages of support for London following the 7 July terrorist atrocity, but the most poignant was a one-sentence letter in The...
Stephen Crawley Caledonian
28-Jul-2005
The Caledonian Brewery in Edinburgh is another that has passed through multiple owners. It was founded in 1869 by George Lorimer and Robert Clark and...
Sudarghara Dusanj Cains
28-Jul-2005
The Robert Cain brewery is back with the name it had in the 19th-century, but the magnificent Victorian building in Liverpool is on its seventh set...
Sue Thomas-Taylor
28-Jul-2005
Greene King In the past few months Greene King IPA has overtaken Tetley's bitter to be the UK's best-selling standard cask ale, another triumph for...
Nigel McNally
28-Jul-2005
Charles Wells If cask ale is the quintessential English drink, then Charles Wells has been very clever in associating its Bombardier cask bitter with...
Mark Woodhouse
28-Jul-2005
Hall & Woodhouse Hall & Woodhouse has just announced it wants to build a new brewery in Blandford St Mary, its Dorset home. Not so much...
SABMiller pumps £30m in speciality beer drive
28-Jul-2005
by John Harrington SABMiller is setting its sights on the speciality beers market as it looks to bring new beers from its global portfolio to the UK....
Rupert Thompson
28-Jul-2005
Refresh UK The story of Brakspear's may be unique in the long history of the British brewing industry because of the mothballing and subsequent...
Richard Everard Everards
28-Jul-2005
Everards was one of the few regional family brewers to give up completely on cask ale in the early 1970s: the rise of the real-ale movement persuaded...
Pubs must focus on ale quality say top brewers
28-Jul-2005
by Rosie Davenport Pubs need to put more focus on serving quality ale in peak condition to attract new customers and increase prices. That's the...
Let hosts be part of
28-Jul-2005
the deals on wheels Guest beers on trains are one thing, says The Daily Telegraph's pub writer ADAM EDWARDS, but what the networks really need is...
Jonathan Neame Shepherd Neame
28-Jul-2005
Shepherd Neame, which fights with Young & Co of Wandsworth for the title of Britain's oldest surviving brewer, exhibited a perfect example of the...
John Roberts Fuller's
28-Jul-2005
Fuller, Smith & Turner has gone from a company that was, 50 years ago, the butt of a distinctly unflattering nickname from Londoners...
Jaclyn Bateman Batemans
28-Jul-2005
Batemans brewery, in the Lincolnshire village of Wainfleet All Saints, nearly went the drainwards way of hundreds of other small brewers when, in the...
Fergus McMullen McMullen
28-Jul-2005
McMullen & Sons has had its wobbles in the past few years, with some family members deciding, just as they have at other regional brewers, that...
Figures show UK drinkers favour beer over wine
28-Jul-2005
I was interested to read the article 'Wine pips beer as top tipple: survey in your issue of 14 July. The article claims that 'three-quarters of...
German group to build new Adnams brewery
28-Jul-2005
by John Harrington Suffolk brewer Adnams has appointed a German brewhouse manufacturer as part of a £3.8m plan to modernise its brewery. Huppmann...
Great for beer
28-Jul-2005
Now that some of Britain's leading brewers have made their pitches about the future of beer, it's your turn to see whether they can live up to their...
Andy Wood Adnams
28-Jul-2005
For a company with only 85 tied outlets, Adnams punches well above its weight. This is, in large part, because it is one of a tiny group of local...
Alistair Darby
28-Jul-2005
Wolverhampton & Dudley Alistair Darby, managing director of W&D Brands, the brewing arm of Wolverhampton & Dudley Breweries, took up his...
A recipe for success
28-Jul-2005
The fantastic opportunities offered by speciality beers have been highlighted at the latest Masterclass demonstration held at The Garrison Hotel in...
Are these the saviours of ale?
28-Jul-2005
As sales of cask beer continue to fall more brewers, most recently Ridley's, have decided to call it a day. But what does the future really hold?...
Brian Jenkins Daniel Thwaites
28-Jul-2005
Daniel Thwaites will be celebrating its bicentenary in two years, by which time awareness of its cask ales should be spreading out from its northwest...
Football preview: PPV and Coca-Cola Championship matches
27-Jul-2005
Sky pay-per-view matchesAugustSaturday 13 12.45pm Everton v Man Utd5.15pm Middlesbrough v LiverpoolSaturday 2012.45pm Man Utd v Aston Villa5.15pm...
Sheps to brew Asahi Super Dry
26-Jul-2005
Shepherd Neame has signed a deal to brew Japanese lager Asahi Super Dry under licence for the UK market.The agreement will see the brand brewed and...
Cider on the rise
21-Jul-2005
After enduring years of jokes and poor sales things are finally looking up for cider. Adam Withrington looks at cider's renaissance.Cider. What...
Gold is the new Best for Badger
21-Jul-2005
Dorset brewer Hall & Woodhouse (H&W) has lined up a new flagship ale to take over from Badger Best.Badger First Gold represents a radical...
Daringly different
21-Jul-2005
Adventurous drinkers are driving growth in the speciality beer market no wonder the big brewers are scrambling to get in on the act. Jo de Mille...
Brothers deal gives Freedom a chance
21-Jul-2005
Freedom Beer is to relaunch its Pilsener brand on 20 August almost a year since its former owner appealed to the Morning Advertiser to help find it a...
Branded glassware a clear winner
21-Jul-2005
Just four years ago, as long as a glass had a logo on it, that was good enough. Today, however, having the right glass is almost as important as the...
Belhaven beer volumes up 6%
21-Jul-2005
Scottish brewer Belhaven has reported strong sales growth, with beer volumes up by around 6% since the end of the last financial year on 3 April. At...
At last, summer's here to turn
21-Jul-2005
up the heat on beer volumes By Tony Halstead Soaring July temperatures have seen brewers step up beer production to meet extra demand from pubs...