Beer at its best
17-Oct-2007
So what does one make of Edward Theakston? When you first meet him he is everything you would expect of a member of the Theakston brewing clan - and...
Nags Head is country's best pub
16-Oct-2007 By Tony Halstead
The Nags Head in Malvern has been named the Good Pub Guide's Pub Of The Year 2008
Unlocking potential
11-Oct-2007
Licensee Ian Mills tells Tony Halsted how he turned around the fortunes of the Cross Keys Hotel in Milnthorpe, Cumbria How I got here I started life...
04-Oct-2007
After a long wait real ale has come back to the Rats Castle
Growing real ale sales: the report you MUST read
04-Oct-2007
New research says it's a landmark moment for real ale. The MA teamed up with leading industry figures to discuss its potential for pubs. Noli...
Business Opinion
27-Sep-2007 By with Clive Consterdine FBII, director of Nucleus
Reversing the fall in British beer sales I spent half a day last week debating the issue of yields and beer quality with members of the Operations...
Room at the top
27-Sep-2007
Barracuda manager Maxine Blake tells Ewan Turney how good training helped smash targets at the Cutting Room in Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire How I...
One eye on the prize
17-Sep-2007
A recent Nielsen report examined the 10 years of the beer industry during Tony Blair's premiership. Here are a couple of points:• off-trade has...
Pub company gets rating value reduced
13-Sep-2007
Brunning & Price argued that the pub's high turnover is a result of its "exceptional ability".
16-Aug-2007 By The PMA Team
Cask Marque has claimed the smoke ban has reawakened taste buds.
Getting straight to the pint
01-Aug-2007
When is a pint not a pint? Phil Dixon reckons the Campaign for Real Ale is in danger of losing its head over its full-measure campaign
GBBF Preview: Best of the bunch
10-Jul-2007
"Golden ale is a rapidly growing style of beer and one that will appeal to younger drinkers and women as well as real ale aficionados. It's a...
Thwaites rises to challenges
05-Jul-2007 By The PMA Team
Northern brewer and retailer Daniel Thwaites' 200-year-anniversary celebrations have helped the group report a 9.5 % growth in profit before tax to...
Business Opinion
05-Jul-2007 By with The PMA Team
Civilisation is around the corner One way to look at the development of pubs in the past decade is to borrow a word often used by Mike Bramley, the...
MyNewPub
05-Jul-2007
Spinners Arms, Cummersdale, Cumbria Agent: Guy Simmonds Alain and Alison Davis have just taken on the Spinners Arms in Cumbria. They bought the...
MyNewPub
28-Jun-2007
Three Horse Shoes Inn, Ironsbottom, Surrey Agent: Fleurets Rob Martinez and Jenny Ladell have just moved into the Three Horse Shoes Inn, near...
28-Jun-2007 By The PMA Team
Northern brewer and retailer Daniel Thwaites' 200-year-anniversary celebrations have helped the group report a 9.5 % growth in profit before tax to...
Pubs face fightback in smoking ban price war
26-Jun-2007
The local curry house can be expected to mount a strong defence as pubs try to steal food trade from rivals.With more 'casual diners' expected to eat...
Cellar to Glass: plastic casks
15-Jun-2007
The crisis at Trenstar has highlighted once again one of the most intractable problems facing the pub and brewing industries.Theft of stainless steel...
Fresh or frozen? Fresh from the farm
08-Jun-2007
I am, irredeemably, a city boy. My local sourcing strategy involves popping to the corner shop for a bag of smoky bacon crisps, a Kit Kat and a copy...
Project update 4: Putting it on the map
31-May-2007
GET A town mayor together in a pub with a couple of hundred locals, some high-tech entertainment, and a bunch of Morris dancers and what have you...
4 Tim Martin
31-May-2007
non-executive chairman, JD Wetherspoon (4)
We're listening
31-May-2007
Nigel Anstead tells Joe Lutrario how talking to customers, organising events and taking care of staff doubled sales and tripled net profits over two...
30-May-2007 By Tony Halstead
Trenstar UK, the trade's biggest beer keg and cask handler, is in talks with its two major customers Carlsberg and Scottish & Newcastle after...
Trenstar's UK operations in doubt
24-May-2007 By Hamish Champ
Trenstar UK, the country's leading beer keg and cask owner, said it would operate normally for the foreseeable future despite launching a...
Strength to strength
24-May-2007
As Caskforce reaches its climax, the year's winner Mike Ford tells Noli Dinkovski how he plans to make the most of his prize Tensions were running...
Three's the magic number
17-May-2007
Before announcing the winner of the 2007 CaskForce competition, we meet the final three MA readers hoping to win a year's free rent in the Marston's...
MyNewPub
10-May-2007
Red Cow, Chrisall, Essex Agent: Christie+Co Chris and Alice Cozens bought the freehold of the Red Cow from Christie+Co off an asking price of...
Scottish licensees support smoking ban
10-May-2007 By James Wilmore
Support for the Scottish smoking ban has soared among licensees, with half now in favour, a survey has revealed. Data supplied exclusively to...
Coors appeals for unity on keg thefts
03-May-2007 By John Harrington john.harrington@william-reed.co.u
Coors has called for the industry to unite to stop the epidemic of keg thefts. This follows comments by Tadcaster Pub Company boss James...
Local protest wins return for Harveys
26-Apr-2007 By Ewan Turney ewan.turney@william-reed.co.uk
Greene King has confirmed that Harveys Best Bitter will return to the Lewes Arms in Sussex this week. The beer was removed from sale in December last...
Going for gold
26-Apr-2007
With less than three weeks to go until the final winner of CaskForce is announced, over the coming issues, the MA talks to the seven readers hoping...
20-Apr-2007 By Ewan Turney
Greene King tells MA that Harvey's Best Bitter will go on sale again this week.
How JDW outdoes rest of chain gang
12-Apr-2007
JD Wetherspoon pubs may be scorned by the purist for adhering to a formula, but as Andrew Jefford finds, what they lack in individuality, they make...
Dragon flies
29-Mar-2007
Steve Wragg tells Ewan Turney that cask ale has transformed trade at the Green Dragon in Market Lavington, Wiltshire How I got here We have been here...
23-Mar-2007 By Ewan Turney
Hosts should not underestimate the impact good quality beer can have on driving profits after the smoking ban, according to cask-ale think tank Why...
Beer to drive sales post ban
22-Mar-2007 By Ewan Turney ewan.turney@william-reed.co.uk
Hosts should not underestimate the impact good quality beer can have on driving profits after the smoking ban, according to cask-ale think tank Why...
Business Opinion
22-Mar-2007 By with Alistair Darby
Why handpull is well up to the cask Have you ever struggled to find the butter in your fridge, only to be told by your partner that it's in front of...
All things to all people
14-Mar-2007 By Gareth Iacobucci
Having transformed from a cinema to a bingo hall to a pub, the Cutting Room in Melton Mowbray has undergone more facelifts than even the most...
08-Mar-2007
A plan to charge licensees deposits of around £50 on kegs is now expected to be implemented at the end of the year. The call to have a deposit...
Project update 1: our rural pub
02-Mar-2007
Residents of Whashton, the tiny Yorkshire village that is home to the Hack & Spade, already know all about the pub's involvement in Sell More,...
Project update 1: our community pub
02-Mar-2007
If you want to be a great community boozer, you've got to connect with your customers. On their visits, the category champions visiting the Forester...
CAMRA makes six-point system available online
07-Feb-2007
The Campaign for Real Ale (CAMRA) is to introduce a new online National Beer Scoring Scheme (NBSS) to rate the quality of beer in pubs.The NBSS is a...
SIBA calls on pubcos to go local
05-Feb-2007
Pub companies are not making the most of the opportunity for local beers, according to the Society of Independent Brewers (SIBA).The latest annual...
Wales
18-Jan-2007
Bunch of Grapes Pontypridd, Mid Glamorgan The Bunch of Grapes is located in a hard-to -find part of Pontypridd. Despite this drawback, increasing...
East & West Midlands
18-Jan-2007
The Wellington Bennetts Hill, Birmingham B2 Nigel Barker believes Birmingham is no longer a "real ale desert" - thanks to the Wellington. Nigel...
East Anglia
18-Jan-2007
Brewery Tap Peterborough, Cambridgeshire It says a lot about the Brewery Tap that one of its customers regularly travels from London to enjoy an...
Yorkshire & North East
18-Jan-2007
David and Claire Smith The Princess, Rawdon, West Yorkshire What persuades someone with a lucrative and secure job to throw it away for a life...
West Country
18-Jan-2007
Goat & Tricycle Bournemouth, Dorset James Blake and Tricia Baldwin have moved cask-beer drinking at the Goat & Tricycle to a new dimension....
Wells & Young's Brewing Company buys rights to Courage cask ale brands
17-Jan-2007 By Hamish Champ
Wells & Youngs Brewing Company (W&YBC) has stepped up a gear in the cask ale market by buying the rights to brew, market and sell the Courage...
