Cask Ales

Bridge Bier Huis: only here for the beer

25-Nov-2010 By Tony Halstead

Simon Scott, who runs freehouse the Bridge Bier Huis in Burnley, tells Tony Halstead how wet sales account for 95% of the trade.

Royal Oak: woodland ways

03-Jun-2010 By Sheila McWattie

Pauline McCulloch, co-owner of the Royal Oak, Fritham, Hampshire, tells Sheila McWattie about building business in her New Forest pub. How we got...

Wychwood launches to go cask ales

31-Mar-2010 By Lesley Foottit

Oxfordshire based Wychwood Brewery has launched a new range of cask ales to go that are perfect for parties, events or just drinking at home. The...

Arkell's offers pub-goers chance to 'try before you buy'

17-Mar-2010

When you go to a cheesemonger they often let you taste the product you may eventually buy. Now Swindon-based Arkell's is offering a similar...

Hamish Champ: Surprise surprise; a happy licensee

11-Aug-2008 By Hamish Champ

Despite being a lover of 'proper' beer since my, ahem, mid-teens I'm ashamed to admit that it is only since I've been working at the Publican that I...

December winner - CHESHIRE LICENSEE Mike Ford

10-May-2007

Mike Ford runs the Farmers Arms, a Punch Tavern in Kelsall, near Tarporley in Cheshire I entered CaskForce to get one of my staff trained up, because...

January winner - STAFFORDSHIRE LICENSEES Josef, Phyllis and Jamie Lang

10-May-2007

The Langs run the Red Lion, a Marston's Pub Company local in Rugeley, Staffordshire. We spoke to Phyllis Lang Winning CaskForce in January was very...

Family fortunes

25-Mar-2004

Charles Wells Keeping beer in the family has paid dividends for local brewers in 2003, according to Nigel McNally, managing director at Charles...

Suffolk brewer Adnams has secured a deal to export its beers

20-Nov-2003

Also, from February 2004, Adnams Broadside Original will be stocked in outlets of Systembolaget, the Swedish state liquor monopoly that controls the...

Hot on the heels of the Society of Independent Family Brewer

17-Oct-2002

Britain's family brewers are still taking stock of the impact that Real Beer Week made on drinkers up and down the country. The week ended on 6...