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Dead Man’s Fingers branches into Tequila, new flavours from Gordon’s and Rekorderlig

18-Mar-2022 By Rebecca Weller

Gordon’s, Rekorderlig and Dead Man’s Fingers unveil new drinks, plus launches of UK's first Tequila ice tea and beers from Otter and Salcombe breweries.

Sharp's head brewer named Young Brewer of the Year

21-Dec-2021 By Rebecca Weller

Sharp’s Brewery head brewer Aaron McClure has been named Young Brewer of the Year at the Brewers Choice Awards.

CAMRA cancels 2022 Great British Beer Festival Winter

23-Nov-2021 By Rebecca Weller

The Campaign For Real Ale (CAMRA) Great British Beer Festival Winter (GBBFW) 2022, has been called off.

New product round-up

‘World’s first’ black gin arrives in UK, new Pub Pride Day brew, River Cottage beer range unveiled

16-Jul-2021 By The Morning Advertiser

The latest new product launches include a commemorative beer from Farr Brew, more pours from Hugh Fearnley-Wittingstall and the ‘world’s first’ naturally black gin.

Pandemic ‘premiumisation’ sparks beer tap and tech review for 67% of operators

13-Jul-2021 By The Morning Advertiser

Two thirds of pub and bar operators are reviewing their beer offer off the back of a newfound thirst for premium pours, according to research carried out by Beer Piper in tandem with The Morning Advertiser (MA).

How has 2020 changed people and pubs?

‘It’s hard enough for any start-up to gain customers, especially when not trading as intended’

03-Jan-2021 By Mark Bates, the Three Bs Micropub, Bridlington, East Yorkshire

The Three B’s Micropub in Bridlington opened in April to a nationwide lockdown. Here publican Mark Bates looks back on opening a closed pub.

Opinion

I’ll tell you what’s so special about Timothy Taylor’s Landlord

07-Apr-2020 By Pete Brown

Pete Brown explains that even if you had the recipe for making something iconic, it doesn’t mean it can be replicated.

GK says popular ale has not been dropped

20-Nov-2019 By Emily Hawkins

Brewer and operator Greene King (GK) has confirmed that a popular beer has not been ditched from its brewing rotation despite its sale to an international property firm.

Hobgoblin gets 21st century facelift

24-Sep-2019 By Stuart Stone

For the first time in its 31-year history, Hobgoblin and its portfolio of award-winning beers are being given a makeover.

Airlines to host American-themed craft pop-up

02-Aug-2018 By Emily Hawkins

A pop-up pub showcasing hundreds of US craft beers will open this month in the latest marketing ploy by two airlines to attract UK tourists to cross The Pond.

CAMRA chief executive Tim Page steps down

30-May-2018 By Nicholas Robinson

The Campaign for Real Ale’s (CAMRA) chief executive Tim Page has announced he will no longer head the organisation following the results of the Revitalisation Project in April.

CAMRA members cast votes on the organisation’s future

07-Mar-2018 By James Beeson

Members of the Campaign for Real Ale (CAMRA) are to cast their votes on the future direction and purpose of the 47-year-old consumer organisation.

AB InBev

AB InBev to open first food-led managed pub in London

05-Dec-2016 By Sara Hussein

Global brewer Anheuser-Busch InBev is set to open its first food-led pub chain in London under the American brand Goose Island Beer Co (GI). 

Beer

Fuller’s launches Instagram campaign to attract Millennial drinkers

17-Oct-2016 By Nikkie Sutton

London brewer Fuller’s has launched a unique campaign involving Instagram to attract craft beer-drinking Millennials.

Good Beer Guide 2017

Almost 200 Punch pubs in Good Beer Guide

27-Sep-2016 By Nikkie Sutton

Almost 200 Punch pubs have featured in the Campaign for Real Ale’s Good Beer Guide 2017, which features 4,500 pubs nationwide.

Beer

Can the Norwich City of Ale festival compare to Munich's Oktoberfest?

10-Jun-2016 By Roger Protz

Why go to Oktoberfest when you've got the Norwich City of Ale festival? Roger Protz reports.

BEER

Brewdog re-releases ‘Bourbon Baby’ Scotch ale

10-Jun-2016 By Daniel Woolfson

Brewdog has announced the re-launch of its spirit beer ‘Bourbon Baby’.

SIBA MCA/PMA survey

Survey: Licensees 'golden opportunity' to tap into the UK beer market

18-Mar-2016 By Mike Berry

A Society of Independent Brewers study has shown customers want to drink British beer while licensees also want to sell it. Mike Berry finds out why this is a golden opportunity for everyone.

City news

Number of micropubs doubles in the last year

15-Feb-2016 By James Wallin, M&C Allegra FS

The number of micropubs in the UK has doubled in the last year and is expected to reach 800 by 2018, according the Micropub Association.

Beer

Asahi Super Dry Black launched

19-Oct-2015 By Jessica Mason

Shepherd Neame is launching a bottled dark lager variant from Japanese lager brand Asahi, which it currently brews under licence in the UK.

Pete Brown: Hop to it - get planting

09-Oct-2014 By Pete Brown

UK hops may have looked in terminal decline a couple of decades back but, as Pete Brown finds, the future's looking rosy for Homulus lupulus.

CAMRA launches search for Britain's most historic clubs

17-Jun-2014 By James Wallin

The Campaign for Real Ale (CAMRA) has launched its search for Britain’s best historic clubs.

Three in four PMA readers think statutory code plans don't go far enough

10-Jun-2014 By James Wallin

Readers of the Publican’s Morning Advertiser have called for the Government to go further in its plans to regulate the pubco/tenant relationship.

Greene King launches Love Golden Beer campaign

20-Mar-2013 By Robyn Black

In a summer that will lack the buzz of the Olympics, Greene King is urging publicans to go for gold by promoting golden ales.

Miller Brands adds a new Belgian beer to its St Stefanus range

09-Nov-2012 By Robyn Black

Miller Brands is expanding its world beer range with a second offer under its Belgian Abbey ale brand, St Stefanus.

'Scottish government alcohol plans face further defeat'

29-Sep-2010 By Matt Eley Matt

Scottish government plans which could see under 21s banned from buying alcohol from off-sales are set to be rejected by MSPs. Labour, the Tories, and...

Brakspear brings back Special

10-Feb-2010 By Sonya Hook

February's Brakspear beer is Brakspear Special, a 4.3% abv Brakspear favourite brought back for one month only. The beer delivers a classic full...

JFL: pubcos have failed miserably

28-Aug-2009 By Ewan Turney

Pubcos have "failed miserably" to self-regulate and it is "imperative" the pubco model is investigated by the Competition Commission. That's the...

Wells and Young's unveils new Bombardier font

21-May-2009

Wells and Young's has unveiled a new font for its Bombardier cask beer brand.The Wells Bombardier font stands at just over a foot high on the bar and...

Camra targets mild conversion for lager drinkers

05-May-2009 By Ewan Turney

Lager drinkers are being urged to give mild a try in May by the Campaign for Real Ale (Camra).

Carling proves to be licensees choice

12-Mar-2009

Given a completely free choice licensees would stock Carling as their number one beer brand. Coors flagship lager came out on top in a Box Marketing...

Leyton Orient Supporters Club serves best beer

17-Oct-2008 By Ewan Turney

Leyton Orient Supporters Club has been named the Campaign for Real Ale's (Camra) Club of the Year.

Back to Basics: Well matched

09-Oct-2008

Have you ever had that feeling where you've missed out on a joke? Where everyone is having the greatest time laughing about it but the joke has gone...

Camra: Fair Pint counter productive

14-May-2008 By Ewan Turney

Real ale group believes breaking the tie would lead to soaring rents

Greene King backs CAMRA's Mild Month

24-Apr-2008 By Matt Eley Matt

Greene King is championing the Campaign for Real Ale (CAMRA) Mild Month of May by urging people to gives its award-winning XX Mild a try. The brewer...

All ale 'n' hearty at brewers' xmas bash

13-Dec-2007

Thankfully no undercover policemen were lurking in the excellent Hand & Flower pub near Olympia, west London, last Thursday - they'd have had a...

New Coors ale in Scottish market

07-Jun-2007

Coor Brewers is set to take on the established heavyweights of the Scottish ale market with the surprise launch this summer of Maclachlan's Best, a...

Perfect pairing

03-May-2007

At the Windsor Castle in Lye, West Midlands, matching beer and food is a fine art. Susan Nowak reports In Belgium you find breweries with "brew...

Beer fans" are sophisticated, report claims

25-Apr-2007 By James Wilmore

More than half of all UK beer enthusiasts are under 44, upmarket, affluent and well-educated, a new report has revealed. The research, commissioned...

Fuller's makes chilling Discovery

10-Apr-2007

Fuller's announces Discovery will only be served through a cooler at a temperature of between eight and 10 degrees.

Industry must back cask ale says Camra

05-Oct-2006 By Ewan Turney

Cask ale will become a marginalised product unless a properly funded campaign to increase consumer interest is launched, the Campaign for Real Ale (Camra) has warned.

Wells & Young's set to overhaul rivals

28-Sep-2006 By Andrew Pring

The new Wells & Young's Brewing Company starts trading next Monday with plans to increase combined barrelage by 20,000 to well over 500,000...

Changing a West End pub into a great local

10-Aug-2006

The Salisbury, London

Camra urges 'go traditional' on St Patrick's Day

07-Mar-2006 By Iain O'Neil

CAMRA urges pub-goers to seek out a pint of real stout or porter this St Patrick's Day

Beer with food - Anything goes

01-Mar-2006 By Richard Fox

Or does it? Over the next few pages Richard Fox, author of the new Food and Beer Cookbook, gives advice on matching different beer styles with food.

Women are

18-Aug-2005

no small beer Mark Woodhouse, vice-chairman of Hall & Woodhouse, turns journalist as the latest contributor to our Good For Beer series. Here he...

Beer and Food - A Taste of Dorset

01-Aug-2005 By Susan Nowak

Susan Nowak reports on a beer and food initiative run by the West Country's Badger Brewery in partnership with small producers in Dorset. Badger...

In session... with Ben McFarland

20-Jul-2005

Disillusioned with numerous run-of-the-mill beer competitions and under siege from uninvited visitors in his garden, Ben McFarland dons his white...

Full steam ahead

23-Jun-2005

Beer guru JEFF EVANS reflects on the progress being made by the BBPA's Beautiful Beer campaign at a tasting aboard the Severn Valley Railway There's...

Dominant ales

24-Feb-2005

Size matters ­ or so it would seem in the ale market. The national brewers have moved out of ale in recent years, making way for a strong charge...