Brulines in talks with Trading Standards

Brulines, the controversial beer monitoring equipment group, is in talks with various organisations including Trading Standards in order to gain 'official' recognition for its technology.

James Dickson, the group's chief executive said today the group was looking for recognition to scotch "misrepresentations" of its equipment.

"Our kit is accurate and the methodology and processes around it are robust," Dickson said.

Brulines had around one million reports going out every year, he added, and the use of one or two errors as evidence that its technology was flawed was unreasonable.

"Where there is a case of human error a licensee has the recourse to pick up the phone and call us," he said.

Dickson also confirmed that the company had been advised by its legal team that it would not be able to take action against MPs on the Business & Enterprise Select Committee (BEC), following critical comments of Brulines' systems in the BEC report, published last week.

"We see no value in pursuing this, since the MPs are covered by parliamentary privilege," said Dickson. "However we do seek to ensure that anyone who wants to see what we do can, and that misrepresentations of our systems are avoided in future.

"We don't go to court on the back of crap evidence," he added.

Dickson said he would be writing to Dari Taylor, the MP for Stockton South, where Brulines is based, as well as Peter Luff, the Conservative MP who chaired the committee which authored the BEC report, to voice his concerns.

Since publication of the BEC report last week several licensees have contacted The Publican​ saying they have been unfairly accused of buying out of the tie on the basis of data supplied by Brulines.