Drinks

Which drinks trends have caught on in 2019?

12-Dec-2019 By Nikkie Thatcher

Whether your customers still love their beer or perhaps a spirit, while others may not indulge in alcohol at all, there have been plenty of trends to take advantage of this year.

Countryfile presenter and Butcombe toast 3m bottles of collaboration brew

10-Dec-2019 By Stuart Stone

Countryfile's Adam Henson and Butcombe Brewery have raised a glass to the three millionth bottle of Rare Breed beer.

Swinkels and Beer Hawk Fresh tie-up will grow Euro craft beer in UK on-trade

10-Dec-2019 By Stuart Stone

Netherlands-based Swinkels Family Brewers has agreed a distribution deal with Beer Hawk Fresh, which will see its range of craft beers made more readily available through UK pubs, bars and retailers.

Opinion

Successfully managing the 12 drunks of Christmas

10-Dec-2019 By Sophie Atherton

Sophie Atherton ponders the balance between merry and drunk and feels for licensees who are trying to draw a line between the two states.

Guv'nor

Beat the brewer (a game for all the family and staff)

10-Dec-2019 By Sam Cornwall-Jones

I was under the impression you must always have a ‘majority brewer’ on your bar so that they look after your cellar equipment, says Sam Cornwall-Jones, owner/proprietor of the Drawing Board, Warwickshire.

Strongbow remains cider champion despite sales drop

09-Dec-2019 By Emily Hawkins

Strongbow has retained its place as the top-selling cider in the on-trade, with its berry variant the second most popular.

Big interview

People don't consider Cobra 'craft' because its been established for 30 years

09-Dec-2019 By Stuart Stone

Cobra founder Lord Karan Bilimoria reflects on getting his business off the ground and how it continues to expand its range after ten years in partnership with Molson Coors.

Drinks List

Gordon’s Pink Gin pushes sister tipple into second spot

06-Dec-2019 By Alice Leader

Forcing Gordon’s London Gin out of first place from last year, Gordon’s Pink Gin takes the floor showing a 185% rise in volume sales and 198% in value.

Pimm’s records near sixfold increase in value

06-Dec-2019 By Alice Leader

Pimm’s No 1 has made quite the impression for its first appearance on The Morning Advertiser’s Drink List, seeing a 580.6% surge in value this year.

Drinks List 2020

On-trade sales of sugar-free Coca-Cola and Pepsi rise by £168m

06-Dec-2019 By Stuart Stone

According to figures from The Morning Advertiser’s latest Drinks List, the combined sales value of sugar-free soft drinks Coca-Cola Zero Sugar and Pepsi Max rose by around 75% – or £168m – year-on-year.

Drinks List 2020

Smirnoff Red on-trade sales almost three-times higher than Gordon's Pink Gin

05-Dec-2019 By Alice Leader

With rumours that gin is close to eclipsing vodka as the UK’s biggest spirits category, The Morning Advertiser’s Drinks List reveals what exactly is going on behind the bar.

Drinks list 2020

Jack Daniel’s still best-selling on-trade whisky despite £6.2m drop in sales

05-Dec-2019 By Stuart Stone

A dip in volume and value sales over the past 12 months has not stopped Jack Daniel’s remaining the on-trade whisky category’s undisputed frontman according to The Morning Advertiser’s latest Drinks List.

Drinks List 2020

Heineken 0.0 on-trade sales increase by £7.7m

05-Dec-2019 By Stuart Stone

While Beck’s Blue is still the best selling low and no-alcohol beer in the UK on-trade, Heineken’s offer more than doubled both in volume and value in 2019.

Drinks List 2020

Top-performing cask ales in UK pubs

05-Dec-2019 By Nicholas Robinson

It is not possible to replicate the cask beer experience outside the pub so if you can give customers the real thing, why would they want to even try to replicate it at home?

Tiny Rebel can complaint upheld again

03-Dec-2019 By Emily Hawkins

A second complaint about Tiny Rebel’s branding has been upheld by the Portman Group for appealing to children, with the brewery describing the decision as “not based on facts”.