Promoting standards and quality
21-Apr-2005
Operations director Tom Dempsey says the whole company ethos is to "serve a fine pint in a good pub". But "catering is obviously a growing part of...
Jonathan Adnams and Simon Loftus may be chalk and cheese. Bu
24-Mar-2005
When Jonathan Adnams takes over from Simon Loftus as chairman of the family business next year, it will crown a remarkable period of transformation...
Adnams to spend £9m on modernisation
24-Mar-2005
Adnams is to spend £9m modernising its distribution and brewing systems. A new £5.5m distribution centre will be built on an 85 acre gravel pit...
Bill King has downsized with a vengeance. From managing dire
17-Mar-2005
But at least he's still making beer. That seemed unlikely back in 2000 when King & Barnes went out of business. King was badly damaged by the...
Born to brew
17-Mar-2005
For more than 200-years Horsham's King & Barnes was a dominant regional brewery. Five years after it closed, Roger Protz reports on how three...
Back in 2001, Ray Welton used to rent part of the Hepworth &
17-Mar-2005
But Welton has now moved to his own premises Welton Brewery 100 yards away from Bill King's brewery on the Foundry Lane estate. Welton is a...
A nagging dilemma
10-Mar-2005
Young's has a dilemma. Should it abandon its outgrown site to expand? Andrew Catchpole meets the brewery's chairman and chief executive.There is an...
The taste of summers past
24-Feb-2005
Andrew Jefford wishes that beer could catch the excitement of wine I've spent the last few weeks filling my head with Burgundy. No, I'm not...
In session...with Ben McFarland
22-Feb-2005
Beer Writer of the Year Ben McFarland on caffeine-infused beers and their coverage in the tabloids.You have to hand it to the Daily Star, that most...
Licence for microbrewery
17-Feb-2005
Q I am building a microbrewery in the yard of my licensed premises, I have been told by the magistrates that I do not need to apply for a licence for...
Export is true hero but shuns limelight
03-Feb-2005
Dortmund was once known as the "Burton of Germany". In the 19th and 20th centuries, the great steel-making and coal-mining city had more breweries...
Unity key to championing beer's past
20-Jan-2005
I was flicking disconsolately through the television channels one evening looking for a programme that wasn't a repeat or an insult to the...
Charles Wells favours new premium Kirin
06-Jan-2005
by Dizziana Rossi Charles Wells is introducing a premium version of its Kirin beer in a bid to get wider distribution in top-end pubs and bars. The...
The dark side of Camra
06-Jan-2005
Not everyone likes the new blondes', but that just shows what a mixed bunch beer drinkers are, says Andrew Jefford The letters page of Camra's...
We can cope with T&G strike, says Carlsberg
25-Nov-2004
by John Harrington Carlsberg UK has insisted that supplies will not be disrupted over Christmas despite a 16-day walk out over pay issues by staff...
Days when wine is a bitter enemy
18-Nov-2004
They say the good thing about bashing your head against a brick wall is that it's wonderful when you stop. I wouldn't know: my cranium has been in...
Honesty shines in Pale Rider deal
04-Nov-2004
On a crisp autumn day, I found myself in deepest rural Essex tasting a Yorkshire beer produced in a brewery founded by a family from Northumberland....
Champagne yeast beers launched into on-trade
22-Oct-2004
Two new premium beers with a difference have been launched into the on-trade.Kasteel Cru from Coors and Curious Brew from the English Wines Group...
The home
14-Oct-2004
brew crew After years of decline the brew-pub is undergoing something of a revival, finds Adrian Tierney-Jones. And although producing your own beer...
New brewing contracts boost Marston's 60%'
07-Oct-2004
by The PMA Team Three new beer-supply contracts will see beer volumes at Wolver-hampton & Dudley's Marston's Brewery increase by around 60% in...
Drink Talking: Steven Prescott
16-Sep-2004
Strangeways employs local people to brew local beer and it is essential to keep it so says Steven Prescott, regional director for CAMRA, Greater...
Greene King's Beer To Dine For to go draught
29-Jul-2004
As Greene King prepares to rollout its Beer To Dine For in bottles, the beer could soon be available on draught.Rooney Anand, head of brewing at...
Heading for home
16-Jul-2004
After months of hard work Rupert Thompson has successfully returned Brakspear to its Oxfordshire home. He speaks to Adam Withrington.Rupert Thompson...
Beer and food back on the menu at GBBF
13-Jul-2004
Beer and food is back on the menu this summer, with the Great British Beer Festival (GBBF) showcasing the best of the trend.Britain's brewers have...
Greene King's 'Beer To Dine For' set for second course
25-Jun-2004
The stage is set for beer to return to its "rightful place" on Britain's dining tables according to Greene King.The Suffolk brewer has relaunched its...
Grant to RoadChef
22-Apr-2004
Former head of Inn Partnership Martin Grant is to head motorway service-station chain RoadChef. He will succeed John Greenwood, who has been in...
Hooked, line and sinker
22-Apr-2004
It may be run today as a modern drinks business, but beer writer Roger Protz could not help feeling he was in an enchanted time warp when he visited...
Scottish Courage closes Tyne Brewery
22-Apr-2004
Scottish Courage, the UK's leading brewer, has announced a second major brewery closure.Only three months after the closure of its Edinburgh-based...
Tetley's sidelined?It's just not cricket
18-Mar-2004
So Carlsberg has dropped Tetley. It seems awfully clumsy of the Danish group like an England slip fielder grounding a straightforward catch from...
The battle of the Chancellor's ear
11-Mar-2004
British beer may be hard done by, but argues Andrew Jefford whatever Gordon Brown decides to do about it in his Budget, justice will remain...
Wheat's a treat
10-Mar-2004
Hoegaarden started a wheat beer trend in the UK that has grown steadily ever since. Ben McFarland sheds light on this burgeoning beer style.It's been...
Protz: bottled beers need detailed labels
04-Mar-2004
Beer writer Roger Protz has called on brewers to print more product information on bottle labels to inform drinkers about ingredients used in the...
01-Mar-2004 By Richard Fox
Richard Fox looks at how beer with food stretches back thousands of years and suggests some simple ways of using beer in your kitchen. Ambling...
All S&N brewing under review
24-Feb-2004
No guarantees are being given over the future of other Scottish & Newcastle (S&N) sites in the wake of the decision to shut the Fountain...
Look out: Friday 13th ale is Back
19-Feb-2004
Hogs Back has reintroduced Friday 13th a 4.2% abv ale. The Surrey-based brewer always produces the brew when there is a Friday 13th in the month....
Advertising drive is no act of folly
08-Jan-2004
Wharfedale Brewery at Hetton in the Yorkshire Dales, is causing quite a stir with its "Drinking is Folly" slogan on the local busservice. There have...
Bill rigs lifeline for brewery
18-Dec-2003
Bill Parkinson calls to mind the American businessman who liked the razor so much he bought Remington: Bill enjoyed Moorhouse's beer so much that he...
Brits find Utopia in £100 bottle of beer
11-Dec-2003
by Claire Hu When is a beer not a beer? That was the question being puzzled over by the brewing industry this week as the world's strongest, and...
Reaching for the stars
03-Dec-2003
From 450 entries, Charles Wells is now on a five-strong shortlist for the CBI/Real Business Growing Business Awards 2003. Paul Wells tells Mark...
A tale of two dreams
20-Nov-2003
Andrew Jefford enters the debate on malting barley origins and variety You pour a pint. You set it down. The customer looks at it approvingly, sniffs...
Don't worry Al, lunch is on them
13-Nov-2003
Wolves & Dudley made a very astute move when it decided to sponsor comedian Al Murray, aka the nation's favourite pub landlord, on his "Giving it...
Stuart Neame hits back at "libellous" claims
06-Nov-2003
Stuart Neame, the outspoken "Kill the Bill" campaigner and former vice-chairman of Shepherd Neame, has accused the Kent brewer of acting...
Brewing heritage
23-Oct-2003
Kronenbourg's premium beer, 1664, commemorates the date when a cooper named Jerome Hatt first brewed in Strasbourg. He based his small brewery in the...
The crown jewels
23-Oct-2003
Roger Protz celebrates the proud tradition of the Kronenbourg brewery The cab driver nodded to the right and then to the left: "Over there are the...
Fuller's is gearing up for Christmas with the launch of two
23-Oct-2003
For the fifth year running, the London brewer will be releasing Jack Frost a 4.5% abv ale that is available in cask and bottle. Jack Frost is...
Beer
01-Oct-2003
Brewers have realised that things have to change for beer It's as if the British brewing industry has suddenly woken up and smelt the hops. In a bid...
Theakston's must cut S&N link
18-Sep-2003
My first visit to Theakston's Brewery in Yorkshire was in the late 1970s. I arrived in the remote Dales town of Masham to be greeted by Michael...
Band of
21-Aug-2003
golds Everyone likes winning. Yet for those brewers many of them micros that won an award at the Great British Beer Festival, the joy of...
Ten years on
14-Aug-2003
The All-Party Parliamentary Beer Group has more than proved its value. How did we manage before asks Andrew Pring? The best institutions seem to have...
Is he ready to celebrate?
14-Aug-2003
I now know the meaning of "shell shocked". Ken Brooker should have been a happy man. But his face was ashen, his shoulders stooped, and he shook his...
