Cold comfort
There can be little doubt of the biggest story in lager in recent years: the extra cold revolution. Even outside of lager, everywhere you look there...
Archives for May 29, 2007
Kitchen equipment: How deep is your fryer?
A fryer is one of the key items of cooking equipment for a pub, as frozen potato and protein products are often a dominant feature of the...
Shake up your fortunes
Barstaff don't need the flair of Tom Cruise in that blockbuster study of the drinks industry Cocktail to profit from mixing drinks. At least that is...
Reassurance needed
THE PUBCO boss points at the fonts for Stella Artois, Artois Bock and Peeterman Artois, InBev's 'famille Artois', in one of his pubs. "What are they?...
Slugs: Not just for girls
It's a warm Tuesday evening in May, and on the big screen Chelsea are ignominiously dropping out of the Champions League at the semi-final stage,...
Across The Bar
WHETHER A major national pubco or an innovative regional operator, it is the pubs themselves who are really at the sharp end when it comes to feeling...
North East Focus: recipes with beer
In a region that enjoys its beer as much as the North East does, it's a safe bet that you'd find a good tradition of food to accompany it.The region...
What the papers say - May 30, 2007
Drink-driving is soaring among young people who missed out on the impact of earlier campaigns, according to police statistics which reveal that a...
Trenstar insists it is "business as usual
Trenstar UK, the trade's biggest beer keg and cask handler, is in talks with its two major customers Carlsberg and Scottish & Newcastle after...
The Thorns in the Spotlight for good pub grub
The Thorns pub in Brierley Hill has been voted the Best Eating Place Pub in the West Midlands by its regulars.The pub came top of a poll in the the...
Mystery of disappearing Hoegaarden
Mystery sourrounds the growing shortage of Belgian wheat beer Hoegaarden in the UK.Disgruntled licensees have told The Publican that deliveries of...
Back To Basics: Cellar Management
WHEN IT comes to qualifications to run a pub, the Award in Beer Cellar Quality (ABCQ) must be one of the strongest. The nationally-recognised...
Henry J Bean's to open in Wimbledon
Food and Drink Group is to open its first new Henry J Bean's site since it acquired the brand. The company is to convert the Life bar in Wimbledon it...
Greene King ramps up tenant food support
Greene King develops Bake 'N' Bite concept for bar food.
North East Focus: Head of Steam
What has been the rest of the country¹s loss has been Newcastle¹s gain with Tony Brookes¹ Head of Steam group. His three flourishing sites in the...
Roll out the barrel…
FACT: BEER sales in the UK on-trade are in decline. There, now we've got that out of the way, we can get on with trying to address the issue.Key to...
North East Focus: view from the top
THINK OF the North and the pub trade and it's probably fair to say that for many people the image coming to mind would have a flat cap, a fag hanging...