Interbrew brings Brahma to Britain
24-Mar-2005
Interbrew has launched Brazilian beer Brahma in Britain in a bid to help retailers "premiumise" business and harness the growing enthusiasm for...
Lager... in a minute
24-Mar-2005
Now then, lager: it's probably the strongest drinks category in the world, isn't it? Well there was a time, but you can increasingly look towards...
New Carling glass as C2 goes national
24-Mar-2005
Coors is set to roll out C2, its low-alcohol version of Carling, on a national scale after a successful trial period. The 2% draught-only beer was...
The challenges ahead
24-Mar-2005
If Jonathan Adnams faces big new challenges next year, so too does his personable anointed successor Andy Wood. Currently sales and marketing...
USP is key in premium market
24-Mar-2005
With a cluttered premium draught market and key supply contracts with Greene King and Mitchells & Butlers up for grabs this year, it's an...
Grape expectations: Riesling
22-Mar-2005
Adam Withrington's series on wine varietals turns to riesling, a grape that does not get the recognition it deserves from customers - probably...
Young guns hold sway in Oz
17-Mar-2005
The Brits now drink 38% of all the wine exported from Australia, so says the Australian Bureau of Statistics. How much wine is that, exactly? We...
OFT urged to look into beer price and supply
17-Mar-2005
by Ewan Turney The Competitions Commission (CC) has suggested that the Office of Fair Trading should investigate the price and supply of beer after...
Long-term future's bright for Boddington's Interbrew
17-Mar-2005
A new regional TV advertising campaign and an array of in-house support activities in pubs has been announced by Interbrew for Boddington's Cask, now...
Major shake-up for Scotch whisky
17-Mar-2005
by Rosie Davenport Tough new laws on how Scotch whisky is marketed are being considered in the industry's biggest shake-up for nearly a century....
ScotCo promises new era of price openess
17-Mar-2005
by John Harrington Scottish Courage has announced a new "fairer" system for increasing the wholesale prices of its brands and promises a new era...
Pubs showing support for Beer With Food Week
17-Mar-2005
Pubs across the UK are playing an important part in the national Beer With Food Week which, runs until Sunday and is being supported by Greene King...
Hotel du Vin opens at Brakspear site
17-Mar-2005
The former Brakspear brewery in Henley has re-opened as the seventh Hotel du Vin. The collection of buildings encircling the old brewery yard houses...
Interbrew injects £11m into new-look Boddies and Bass
17-Mar-2005
by Tony Halstead Interbrew UK is to splash out £11m on its two leading cask-ale brands, Draught Bass and Boddington's, following the transfer of...
Image is everything when it comes to marketing. But when Adn
17-Mar-2005
ANDY WOOD reflects on a new approach It goes without saying that companies such as Adnams need to build a significant consumer franchise and...
Back in 2001, Ray Welton used to rent part of the Hepworth &
17-Mar-2005
But Welton has now moved to his own premises Welton Brewery 100 yards away from Bill King's brewery on the Foundry Lane estate. Welton is a...
Beautiful Beer drive wins major coverage
17-Mar-2005
by Ewan Turney The Beautiful Beer campaign has won widespread media coverage in its first fortnight with particular focus on encouraging women...
Bill King has downsized with a vengeance. From managing dire
17-Mar-2005
But at least he's still making beer. That seemed unlikely back in 2000 when King & Barnes went out of business. King was badly damaged by the...
Budweiser Budvar set to keg at source
17-Mar-2005
Budweiser Budvar has unveiled plans to keg and rack its draught lager where it is produced in the Czech Republic to beef up its reputation as an...
Budget gets frosty reception from hosts and brewers
17-Mar-2005
by John Harringtonand Ewan Turney Licensees and brewers have hit out at the duty rises on beer announced in yesterday's Budget. From 20 March, beer...
Born to brew
17-Mar-2005
For more than 200-years Horsham's King & Barnes was a dominant regional brewery. Five years after it closed, Roger Protz reports on how three...
Brewer taps into theatre' dispense
17-Mar-2005
A new cylinderless beer engine developed by Interbrew is the first branded system of its type, designed to help licensees improve the quality of cask...
25 years on and SIBA's drum still beats loudly
17-Mar-2005
Britain's small brewers have celebrated 25 years of existence by giving a plaque to the landlady of the pub where they held their first meeting in...
British food will go global'
17-Mar-2005
Beer will be the only British item left on many pub menus in 10 years, according to top chef Michael Moore. The chef, who is proprietor at London's...
ScotCo calls for a halt to massive price hikes
14-Mar-2005
Scottish Courage has laid down the gauntlet to brewers to be more open with their pricing policies.The brewer has announced a 3.2 per cent increase...
J&B hopes to attract new drinkers with innovation
10-Mar-2005
J&B has launched a new whisky to encourage younger drinkers into the scotch category.There has been a nine per cent decline in scotch drinking in...
Carlsberg tight-lipped on rumours
10-Mar-2005
Carlsberg UK has been unable to comment on rumours that it is about to pull out of football sponsorship, including its deal with Liverpool Football...
Bodgers flies the flag for barley wine
10-Mar-2005
If Murphy's Law operates, you will read this in bright spring sunshine, but I'm writing with snow driving against the house and cars slithering...
Full-pint measure is nota worry for consumers
10-Mar-2005
by Ewan Turney MPs and the Campaign for Real Ale (Camra) are barking up the wrong tree in campaigning for a full-pint measure, according to a survey...
Gales wins green' gongfor water conservation
10-Mar-2005
by Tony Halstead Independent brewer George Gale has won a major environmental award for water conservation. The Hampshire-based brewer triumphed in...
Fuller's brings back Hock after 12 years
10-Mar-2005
London brewer Fuller's has revealed that classic mild ale Hock will be the returning hero of its spring beer festival after an absence of 12 years....
The drinking man's guide to pub food
10-Mar-2005
Daily Telegraph pubs writer ADAM EDWARDS lays out the ground rules for matching food with beer Beer With Food Week starts on Monday. I have no wish...
Sheps breaks the deadlock
10-Mar-2005
For years Shepherd Neame's Faversham brewery was hampered by the constraints of its town-centre location. Now it has broken free with the help of a...
Wine lists: six golden rules
10-Mar-2005
This week, the Morning Advertiser launches the first in a new series designed to help licensees make more money from wine. Once a month, we'll be...
Which? test hits out at top wine brands
10-Mar-2005
Consumer magazine Which? has hit out at the quality of most big brand wines labelling them "mediocre" and "disappointing" after a blind tasting...
Trade battles to polish beer's tarnished reputation
04-Mar-2005
The British Beer & Pub Association (BBPA) has launched its long-awaited campaign to improve the image of beer.Brewers and pub companies want to...
Allied Domecq launches new Malibu flavours
04-Mar-2005
Allied Domecq is set to launch two new flavours of its Caribbean rum brand Malibu.Aimed to sit alongside the original coconut-flavoured white rum,...
SAB Miller in talks to snap up Topvar
03-Mar-2005
The Morning Advertiser has learnt that SAB Miller is in talks to acquire Slovakia's third-largest brewer Topvar. Privatised in 1994, Topvar, is now...
Kalashnikov: Portman, don't ban my vodka'
03-Mar-2005
by John Harrington The 85-year-old Russian military hero Mikhail Kalashnikov, who created the famous AK-47 rifle, wrote a personal letter to the...
Beautiful Beer points to cask challenge ahead
03-Mar-2005
by John Harrington One third of the 340 pubs surveyed in the run-up to the launch of the Beautiful Beer campaign, which aims to improve beer's...
Beer With Food Week updates:
03-Mar-2005
l Restaurant sommelier turned pub landlord Mark Vandergoot is more qualified than most to offer beer with food matching tips. The Australian-born...
Bristol brewing begins to bounce back
03-Mar-2005
Signs outside the Wellington Hotel in the Horfield district of Bristol last week announced: "Beer seminar with Roger Protz". Even though I've been...
Camra signs up 75,000th member
03-Mar-2005
The Campaign for Real Ale signed up its 75,000th member during NationalPubs Week (NPW) and is now three quarters of the way towards reaching its...
Diageo ups security after fake drink scam
03-Mar-2005
Diageo has stepped up security measures in Northern Ireland after it emerged that the IRA is believed to be behind a professionally run distribution...
Water, water everywhere...
02-Mar-2005
Water sales continue to increase in pubs as more people opt for a healthier lifestyle or decide to drink it with their meals. Adam Withrington...
Meet the Merchant - Yapp Bros, Mere, Wiltshire
01-Mar-2005 By Chris Losh
Yapp Bros wine feature
The Nebbiolo grape
01-Mar-2005 By Chris Losh
Nebbiolo, Italy's finest grape?
The Beer Factor - With Beer with Food Week fast approaching..
01-Mar-2005
With Beer With Food Week fast approaching - 14 to 20 March - PubChef looks at ideas to cash in on the event.
Dominant ales
24-Feb-2005
Size matters or so it would seem in the ale market. The national brewers have moved out of ale in recent years, making way for a strong charge...
Camra targets quick buck' pub conversions
24-Feb-2005
by Ewan Turney The Campaign for Real Ale has launched an updated version of its Public House Viability Test booklet in a bid to reverse the...