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BrewDog set for keynote summit talk

Beer Innovation Summit

BrewDog set for keynote summit talk

By Mike Berry

BrewDog has been revealed as a keynote speaker at next month’s Beer Innovation Summit, organised by the Publican’s Morning Advertiser.

Future alcoholic drinks trends

What will we be drinking in 2020?

By Robyn Black

If kale, coconut water and craft beer were the tastes of 2014, what will we be drinking five years from now?

Focus on bakery: wanted bread or alive

Menu focus

Focus on bakery: wanted bread or alive

By Daniel Woolfson

With the rise of food-led pubs, baked bread and similar products are becoming increasingly popular amongst customers and operators are finding innovative ways to capitalise on hunger for the starchy staple.

UK food trend bone broth 2015 London pop ups The Grocer

Trend watch

Trend watch: bone appétit?

By Daniel Woolfson

Bone broth may not sound like a particularly appetising concept. However, the dish is being touted as having immense health benefits and is making a stir in the foodie scene.

Molson Coors re-launch brand identity and wholesale business

Supplier News

Molson Coors re-launches wholesale business

By Jessica Mason

Molson Coors has re-launched its wholesale business, dropping the ‘wholesale’ positioning from its new brand identity and instead replacing it with: ‘Molson Coors – Service. Choice. Trust.’

Pete Brown: Pubs will always have a role

Future pubs special

Pete Brown: Pubs will always have a role

By Pete Brown

With a history spanning a thousand years, Pete Brown argues it’s unlikely we’ll drop the idea of the pub community any time soon.

An artist's impression of PMA editor Rob Willock in 2020

Future pub special

Seeking 2020 pub vision

By Rob Willock

The pioneering car maker Henry Ford was reported once to have said: “If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses.”

Johnnie Walker's bottle of the future

Diageo unveils the "bottle of the future"

By Robyn Black

The bottle of the future, which it is claimed will “completely change the role of the bottle in the consumer experience,” has been unveiled by Diageo for its Johnnie Walker whisky brand.

The Big Interview: Simon Emeny, Fuller's

The Big Interview: Simon Emeny, Fuller's

By Mike Berry

Fuller’s may be defined by its beers, but it is its food that is increasingly attracting customers to its pubs and spurring the company to set the pace for change in an industry that is currently shaking off the shackles of financial stagnation. Mike...

The Big Interview: Martin Thatcher, Thatchers Cider

The Big Interview: Martin Thatcher, Thatchers Cider

By Mike Berry

Thatchers has been producing cider since the early 1900s and the family-run business, now in its fourth generation, is still doing well. Mike Berry finds out more about the man at the helm.

Butcombe appoints new director of brewing

Butcombe appoints new director of brewing

By Ellie Bothwell

Butcombe Brewery has appointed Stuart Howe as director of brewing – the first appointment since Liberation Group acquired the company at the end of last year.

Money makers: healthy set menus and jazz lunches

business booster

Money makers: healthy set menus and jazz lunches

By Alison Baker

For £17, guests enjoy two courses plus coffee with dishes including spinach and feta salad with Kalamata olive Puy lentils, Asian chicken broth with edamame, bean shoots and chilli and the very popular poached egg on wholegrain toast with crushed avocado,...

BrewDog launches gluten-free beer

BrewDog launches gluten-free beer

By Ellie Bothwell

BrewDog has launched its first gluten-free beer, which drinkers can order by sticking two fingers up in a ‘V’ sign at the bar.

CAMRA urged to stand against 'beer sexism'

CAMRA urged to stand against 'beer sexism'

By Mike Berry

The Campaign for Real Ale has been urged to toughen its stance on so-called ‘beer sexism’ and put in place measures to make the industry more welcoming to women.

Carlsberg appoints first non-Dane CEO

Carlsberg appoints first non-Dane CEO

By James Wallin, M&C Report

Carlsberg Group has announced its president and chief executive Jørgen Buhl Rasmussen is retiring and will be replaced by Cees ‘t Hart, currently chief executive of the Dutch dairy company Royal Friesland Campina.

FSA issues warning over counterfeit Glen's vodka

FSA issues warning over counterfeit Glen's vodka

By Ellie Bothwell

Counterfeit vodka labelled as Glen’s Vodka has been offered for sale in a number of outlets in London, the Midlands and North Scotland, the Food Standards Agency (FSA) has warned.

Trend watch: cruising for a fusing?

Trend watch

Trend watch: cruising for a fusing?

By Daniel Woolfson

Say “fusion” and people usually cringe. Briefly popular in the nineties, combining seemingly mismatched concepts and cuisines was written off as unnecessary and extravagant by many.

J2O Spritz launched

BRAND NEWS

J2O goes posh with a new sparkling variant

By Jessica Mason

Britvic is launching a lightly sparkling brand extension for its J₂O brand, named J₂O Spritz, in a bid to answer the demand for more excitement and choice in adult soft drinks.

Bacardi Carta Fuego launched

Bacardi takes rum into the shot sector

By Jessica Mason

Following its first redesign in a decade, Bacardi is taking aim at the growing shot market with a new spiced brand, set for launch this April, The Publican's Morning Advertiser can reveal.

Hoxton Cidersmiths launch Sixpointsix

New brand for Hoxton Cidersmiths

By Robyn Black

Hoxton Cidersmiths, set up by friends who describe themselves as a “pair of cider purveyors,” is to launch a third new brand this month.

WSTA wine and spirits pub sales

Pub wine and spirit sales at a high

By Mike Berry

Wine and spirits sales are becoming increasingly important to the on-trade and now account for almost half of the value of all drinks sales in new openings, exclusive figures have revealed.

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