Brewery confiscates pub's 'defaced' barrels
A Cumbrian licensee, who put beer barrels outside her pub to stop illegal parking, is appealing for replements after they were confiscated by the brewery.
Archives for June 30, 2014
Norfolk pub triumphs in Good Food Guide's reader award
The Ingham Swan in Norfolk has been announced as one of ten regional winners in the Waitrose Good Food Guide Readers’ Restaurant of the Year 2015.
Tom Kerridge wins Gastropub of the Year but loses top spot in National Restaurant Awards 2014
The Hand and Flowers in Marlow, Buckinghamshire, has been voted the UK’s Gastropub of the Year for the third successive year.
Student buys two of Manchester’s top bars in his first business venture
A 22-year-old entrepreneur has bought Taps Restaurant & Bar and Epernay Champagne bar in Manchester for a ‘six-figure sum’.
Punch tenants still worried about their pubs' futures
Punch tenants are still concerned about the future of their pubs, despite bondholders last week voting in favour of the pubco’s restructuring proposals.
Joule’s launches craft beer format
Joule’s, the Shropshire brewer and pub operator, is developing a new craft beer bar concept that it wants to roll out into five sites initially.
London's 'smallest old pub' celebrates every landlord since 1678 with roll of honour
The latest in a long line of licensees at ‘London’s oldest small pub’ is celebrating a decade at the tiny watering hole.
Sipsmith launches a vodka for sipping
Craft distiller Sipsmith has created a sipping vodka.