03-Jun-2010 By Lesley Foottit
A community-run Denbighshire pub has announced plans to set up a post office and long term ambitions to add a microbrewery.
02-Jun-2010 By Ewan Turney
Purity Brewing Co. is offering a case of beer to anyone on Twitter who recommends a pub or shop where they think Purity should be stocked. The...
27-May-2010 By The PMA Team
Greene King is boosting capacity at its Belhaven brewery in Dunbar — the scheme is expected to be complete in February 2011.
21-Apr-2010 By Philip Davison
Licensee Philip Davison of the Sun in the Wood, Newbury asks how can you still make money from running a pub?
Good Beer Guide goes mobile
14-Apr-2010
It will be easier than ever for pub customers to find the best outlets in their area after CAMRA released a mobile edition of the Good Beer Guide....
New Burton brewing museum to open on May 1
30-Mar-2010 By James Wilmore
Burton's new brewing and visitor centre is set for its grand opening on May 1. The newly revived facility - the National Brewery Centre - is being...
19-Feb-2010 By Gemma McKenna
Meantime Brewing Company is set to open its new restaurant, cafe-bar and microbrewery in Greenwich on 23 March after a two-year building project. ...
17-Feb-2010 By Gemma McKenna
Cumbrian microbrewer Hesket Newmarket opened its first pub, the Shepherd Inn, at Melmerby, last June, but has announced plans to quit. The...
02-Feb-2010 By John Harrington
A 40% abv brew — billed as the world's strongest beer — is now available in the UK from German craft brewer Schorschbräu.
Flood victims get boost from CAMRA
20-Jan-2010
CAMRA will be holding a charity auction this Friday at the National Winter Ales Festival, Manchester, to raise money for the victims of the Cumbria...
18-Jan-2010 By Ewan Turney
Further details of the British Beer and Pub Association's Pub Industry Framework Code of Practice are due to be published this week. The code,...
04-Dec-2009 By MA Reporter
With the floods in Cockermouth receded, those at the Marston's-owned Jennings brewery reflect on the tumultuous past few weeks.
04-Dec-2009 By Paul Wells
Charles Wells boss Paul Wells explains why being a tenant of a regional family brewer is that little bit different.
Trade veteran Richard Butterworth dies
02-Dec-2009 By Tony Halstead
One of the UK pub trade's best-known figures, Richard Butterworth, has died following a short illness at the age of 64. Butterworth spent more than...
27-Nov-2009 By John Harrington and Lesley Foottit
Outspoken MP Greg Mulholland has accused the British Beer and Pub Association (BBPA) of running a "partial" campaign to save the pub.
12-Nov-2009 By The PMA Team
Microbrewers passionate about beer are enjoying tax breaks from Progressive Beer Duty and capitalising on the benefits of running their own pubs.
28-Oct-2009 By Ewan Turney
Controversial Scottish micro-brewer BrewDog has acquired its first pub — the Marischal in Aberdeen.
Pub operators to add microbreweries
24-Oct-2009
Microbreweries are to be added to two freehouses following their acquisition by experienced operators. Licensee Mark Hey has plans to convert the...
23-Oct-2009 By Gemma McKenna
A Shropshire micro-brewery has stepped up to save one of the UK's most historic pubs — where beer was served directly from casks.
Everards offers free beer for a year
20-Oct-2009 By Ewan Turney
Leicestershire brewer Everards is offering a year's supply of beer to one lucky person as part of its 160th anniversary celebrations. The brewer is...
Everards offers a year's beer for best memorabilia
20-Oct-2009 By James Wilmore
Everards is offering a year's worth of beer to the customer who comes up with the best piece of memorabilia to help celebrate the brewery's 160th...
25-Sep-2009 By MA Reporter
The MA has teamed up with SIBA to hold the first-ever free-to-attend pub retailing conference for microbrewers who run pubs.
Brewers tell OFT removing the tie would "shake the industry's foundations
21-Aug-2009 By James Wilmore
Family brewers have told the Office of Fair Trading (OFT) an end to the beer tie would lead to further pub closures, the loss of more traditional...
31-Jul-2009 By Roger Protz
Drinkers are rejecting blandness in favour of flavour — and big brewers are suffering, says Roger Protz.
Brewery in Peak condition
17-Jul-2009 By Roger Protz
A new brewery in Derbyshire has some powerful history behind it. The plant for the Thornbridge brewery at Crompton Mill near Bakewell is on the site...
Marston's warns free trade not to rely on discounts
19-May-2009
Marston's has warned free trade pubs that they will have to rely on better promotion as budgets tighten and brewery discounts decline.There is little...
13-May-2009 By Ewan Turney
Vociferous Lib Dem MP Greg Mulholland has called for a fresh set of beer orders in the wake of the damning pubco report.
30-Apr-2009 By Roger Protz
Alistair Darling is trying to kill off pubs, just like Dr Beeching butchered the railways in the 1960s, says Roger Protz.
20-Apr-2009 By Ewan Turney
A whopping 90% of the population believe that beer tax should be frozen of reduced at this week's Budget, according to a new poll. The poll of 1,007...
31-Mar-2009 By John Harrington
1,131 tied pubs owned by seven pubcos have closed since December 2005 and action is needed, says GMB - but BBPA argues the tie has "nothing to do with closures
'Hitman Hatton joins the beer tax fight'
03-Mar-2009
Ricky Hatton tells The Sun why he backs the brewing industry's Axe The Beer Tax campaign. "I am supporting the Axe The Beer Tax, Save The Pub...
18-Feb-2009 By The PMA Team
Liverpool brewer Cains has denied that delays in HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) granting it a transport licence is affecting its business.
Hook Norton backs Axe the Beer Tax
21-Jan-2009 By Matt Eley Matt
Hook Norton is the latest brewery to give its backing to the British Beer & Pub Association's Axe the Beer Tax campaign. The move follows the...
Moorhouse's invests in new £3.5m brewing complex
17-Dec-2008 By James Wilmore
Lancashire brewer Moorhouse's is aiming to triple its brewing capacity thanks to a new £3.5m brewing complex. Work on the new 5,000sqm site in...
27-Nov-2008 By Gemma McKenna
Hartlepool brewery Cameron's is set to keep expanding in the face of the credit crunch, although the company admits to scaling back plans.
Reality Czech
17-Nov-2008
Beer sales in the UK have fallen a further eight per cent between July and September. What can brewers do to stop this slide?The best thing any...
05-Nov-2008 By Ewan Turney
The second part of Neil Morrisey's Risky Business screened last night on Channel 4 with the actor and Richard Fox attempting to open their pub — and the Morning Advertiser would like to get your views on the show.
23-Oct-2008 By The PMA Team
Leicester brewer and retailer Everards has embarked on an innovative partnership with emerging local brewers to operate pubs. The company is buying...
Business benefits
23-Oct-2008
Inspirational businesses have been celebrating after picking up prizes at this year's Society of Independent Brewers (SIBA) Brewing Business...
Everards wins award
14-Oct-2008 By The PMA Team
Everards, the regional brewer, has collected the top honours at the SIBA - Society of Independent Brewers Association - Business Awards. The family...
Oliver's army at Marston's
01-Oct-2008
"I'm actually really pleased you're here, Adam. It means I don't have to do any morris dancing." Not exactly what I was expecting to hear as an...
Opinion: Look at the bigger picture for beer
23-Sep-2008
The latest Good Beer Guide has had a bigger impact in the media than usual this year. And with the double whammy of pub closures and falling beer...
11-Sep-2008 By Tony Jennings
In Europe, brew masters in traditional breweries are regarded with an awe bordering on reverence. An almost papal authority is attached to their...
05-Sep-2008 By Roger Protz
Closed pubs are just one tangible face of the damage done by the Beer Orders.
Opinion: Eavesdropping on InBev
01-Sep-2008
I just can't get away from work these days. A trip to drink beer in Brussels on a day off recently was bound to be something of a busman's holiday,...
26-Aug-2008 By Ewan Turney
Adnams has reported a £148,000 loss before tax for the six months to 30 June as the credit crunch and rising prices take their toll.
22-Aug-2008 By Tony Halstead
Several licensees at Cains pubs have told of their heartbreak as they face losing their jobs following the company administrator's decision to close...
The duty rise is a disaster, says Wells and Young's boss
08-Aug-2008
Nigel McNally is looking vexed. This might surprise some. After all, here is a managing director who has steered a company through a tricky merger...
Cains in administration
07-Aug-2008
PricewaterhouseCoopers (PWC) has been appointed administrator to Liverpool pub company and brewer Cains after talks with its bank broke down earlier...
Finalist selected for Budweiser Brewmaster competition
22-Jul-2008
Budweiser has selected 10 finalists for its Brewmaster's Apprentice competition, which will make the winner an honourary brewmaster.At the final at...
