Food & Drink

Licensee to tap into his cellar's spring

27-Jan-2005

An enterprising licensee hopes to sell a new range of bottled water after discovering a spring in his cellar. The 13th-century cellar at the Ship...

Water, water everywhere

27-Jan-2005

ANDREW JEFFORD entertains some impure thoughts as he discourses on the importance of water Water matters for earthlings. We live on the blue...

Unity key to championing beer's past

20-Jan-2005

I was flicking disconsolately through the television channels one evening looking for a programme that wasn't a repeat or an insult to the...

Pint prices set to rise 8p as brewers pass on costs

20-Jan-2005

by Tony Halstead Licensees are to be hit with a string of price rises from national brewers' increases that could force up the price of a pint by...

Fill in our food questionnaire

20-Jan-2005

If you want to be in with a chance to win 100 cases of Waverley TBS wine for your pub then don't forget to return the food survey questionnaire...

Trade hit by brand price hikes

19-Jan-2005

Licensees are facing a year of rising costs with three major drinks suppliers set to introduce significant price rises.Twelve months on from their...

JMR launches new set of whisky cocktails

18-Jan-2005

Jon, Mark and Robbo's (JMR) Easy Drinking Whisky Company is set to launch a series of whiskey cocktails into UK pubs and bars.The award-winning...

Top level reshuffle at Diageo

18-Jan-2005

Diageo Great Britain has announced a major shake-up of its senior management structure.Two managing director posts have been created, with one...

Beer tie safeguards satisfies regulators and the City

13-Jan-2005

The Trade and Industry Select Committee's decision that the beer tie should remain for pubcos prompted a surge in share prices among the big...

Coors goes plastic

13-Jan-2005

Coors is launching a new range of plastic glassware' that the brewer says is the cheapest yet and the closest to the conventional pint glass. The...

Camra seeks pub adoption

13-Jan-2005

The Campaign for Real Ale has launched a new "Adopt a Pub" scheme asking consumers to order free National Pubs Week promotional packs todistribute to...

Battle of the beer brands

13-Jan-2005

Beer suppliers will also be going toe-to-toe when the Six Nations gets under way next month. Ewan Turney reveals the big players and their game plans...

Media brings down our winter warmers

13-Jan-2005

Andrew Jefford reported last week on the lively debate in Camra's (Campaign for Real Ale) newspaper What's Brewing on the subject of the ever-growing...

Xmas beer sales rise in north and fall in south

13-Jan-2005

by Ewan Turney The north of Britain enjoyed the biggest increase in beer sales over the festive season, with the south suffering a small decline. A...

Grape expectations: Back to basics

12-Jan-2005

Continuing our series on wine varieties, this month we look at syrah... or is that shiraz?This is the third in a series of features focusing on grape...

Adnams returns family member to helm of brewery

10-Jan-2005

Jonathan Adnams is poised to become executive chairman of Adnams next year when Simon Loftus retires as the head of one of Britain's few remaining...

Why the list should always come first

06-Jan-2005

How you choose and order your wine list speaks volumes about your establishment. I can tell the lists "ordered" from the wine merchant a mile off....

Spirit changes wine and cask-ale ranges

06-Jan-2005

The Spirit Group is revamping the range of cask ales it offers to consumers. The managed pub operator is changing its line-up to introduce more...

The dark side of Camra

06-Jan-2005

Not everyone likes the new blondes', but that just shows what a mixed bunch beer drinkers are, says Andrew Jefford The letters page of Camra's...

Low-alcohol Carling launched by Coors

06-Jan-2005

by John Harrington Coors Brewers hopes to exploit what it sees as the untapped potential for low-alcohol beer by spending £1m launching a 2% abv...

Plastic fantastic

06-Jan-2005

Glass bottles could well become a thing of the past in pubs when the Licensing Act comes into force. Tony Halstead visits a packaging supplier who...

Has JDW dropped a Belgian bolleke?

06-Jan-2005

Beer-drinking circles were buzzing last month when Wetherspoon's announced it was launching the famous Belgian beer De Koninck on draught throughout...

Beer with food week bulletin

06-Jan-2005

The first Beer with Food Week takes place from 14 to 20 March, championed by the Morning Advertiser and PubChef magazine. Beer with Food Week will...

Charles Wells favours new premium Kirin

06-Jan-2005

by Dizziana Rossi Charles Wells is introducing a premium version of its Kirin beer in a bid to get wider distribution in top-end pubs and bars. The...

Pubcos off the hook on beer tie

21-Dec-2004

The beer tie is set to continue after the Trade and Industry Select Committee's lengthy investigation found it should remain.Pubcos were taken to...

British beers will beat the winter chills

16-Dec-2004

I met Nick Stafford at a beer launch last week and, to my surprise, he said he felt small brewers needed to be more innovative. Nick runs Hambleton...

Brands to look out for

16-Dec-2004

Simon Kay, commercial director, Regent Inns "We have put San Miguel on draught into Bar Risa because it offers choice to premium draught lager...

Smirnoff is crowned the fastest move

16-Dec-2004

Smirnoff has stolen a march on its rivals to claim the title of the fastest-growing on-trade product of the year. The stalwart brand gained the most...

Unions set to ballot Interbrew members

16-Dec-2004

Interbrew UK workers at four breweries may stage a mass walkout in February after the company refused to accept union proposals to deal with workers'...

Greene King managed hosts in Pubwatch push

09-Dec-2004

by John Harrington Greene King has started a drive to get its managed pubs involved in their local Pubwatch after a survey carried out by them...

From cheap plonk to Fit-ou for a king

09-Dec-2004

I've just come back from the largest vineyard in the world. I'm talking Languedoc-Roussillon in the south of France, which produces more wine than...

Cask sale at Theakston's

07-Dec-2004

Masham-based brewer T&R Theakston is offering drinkers the chance to buy their own cask of Old Peculier ale in the run-up to Christmas.A limited...

Binge-drinkers choose beer but wine plays role'

02-Dec-2004

by John Harrington Beer is the most popular choice for binge drinking an activity undertaken by half of all 18 to 34 year-olds according to...

Wine is top tipple for women bingers

01-Dec-2004

Wine is emerging as the drink of choice among the growing legions of female binge-drinkers.Pressure group the Wine Trade Action Group (WTAG), a...

UK launch for US beer range

01-Dec-2004

America's fourth biggest brewer is making a move into the UK for the very first time.The High Falls Brewing Company in Rochester, New York, has...

Jim Beam to make major UK investment

26-Nov-2004

Bourbon could make a major impact in the UK drinks market following ambitious plans outlined by Jim Beam this week.Thomas Flocco, chief executive and...

Wine Focus: Top combinations

25-Nov-2004

In association with:Enhance your customers' dining experience with wine that brings out a meal's flav our. Ben McFarland reports.The first steps of...

We can cope with T&G strike, says Carlsberg

25-Nov-2004

by John Harrington Carlsberg UK has insisted that supplies will not be disrupted over Christmas despite a 16-day walk out over pay issues by staff...

Special flavours hold limited appeal for licensees

25-Nov-2004

Limited edition flavours of traditional crisp variants bring something a little bit different from the norm. With limited space behind the bar,...

Taking cask to cask

25-Nov-2004

Why should anyone bother with cask ale? Because, as DAVID GRANT, managing director of Moorhouse's Brewery and northern chairman of SIBA makes clear,...

Industry support for Beer With Food Week

25-Nov-2004

Phil Vickery, celebrity chef and licensee of the King of Prussia in Farnham Royal, Berkshire "Beer With Food Week is a fantastic idea. It's not just...

If any beer was a crucial factor in my life from the "midwif

25-Nov-2004

My great-grandfather, grandfather and parents were all devotees. Indeed, I was brought up to believe that the best pub in the world was the Edmunds...

Gales

25-Nov-2004

storms ahead Gales shines out as one of the most successful examples of an established brewery. Adrian Tierney-Jones talks to managing director...

Full liquid pint back on Government's agenda

25-Nov-2004

by Tony Halstead The trade is bracing itself for another attempt by consumer groups to force pubs to serve customers a full liquid pint. The thorny...

EU protection for Boddingtons?

25-Nov-2004

Workers at the Boddingtons Brewery at Strangeways in Man-chester have decided to apply to the European Union so that the brand can have special...

Beer and food: The odd couple?

24-Nov-2004

Can beer ever partner food as comfortably as wine does?One of the more innovative suggestions to have arisen from the trade's beer and food...

The taste of things to come

18-Nov-2004

Beer guru Jeff Evans spells out the points of distinction of some of the leading players in his A-Z (well almost) of imported brews

Wadworth good for a relationship

18-Nov-2004

On a trip to the Wadworth brewery in Devizes, Adam Withrington found out there was much more to the business than its beer. One of the nicest things...