Cask Beer

Lager is not your enemy

13-Mar-2007

Last week I was invited to chair the main debate at the SIBA conference in Leeds. Taking up such a role you silently pray for the audience to be a...

London

18-Jan-2007

Park Tavern Kingston-upon-Thames, Surrey Park Tavern has been on the cask beer lovers' trail ever since Peter McFarlane, wife Jo and daughter Sue...

The cask is clearly half-full

09-Nov-2006

It's good these days to visit a brewery and pick up enthusiasm for the future of the cask-beer sector. The visit in question was to Wells &...

It's worth the effort

17-Feb-2006

When it comes to cask beer having a great knowledge of the product you are selling is of the utmost importance. The Publican and Greene King have...

Quality first

13-Feb-2006

Perfecting a pint of cask beer is of the utmost importance. The Publican and Greene King have teamed up to explain why.If licensees should aspire to...

Cask ale champions: Talking up ale

02-Nov-2005

People are often keen to write the obituary of cask beer. But would they be so quick to dismiss it if they saw some of the licensees and managers out...

Guess who'll miss the boat on cask?

21-Jul-2005

The Morning Advertiser offered a fine example of 'parallel universes last week on page 8. There was I appealing to Greene King to keep open Ridley's...

The big chill beckons

05-May-2005

Has there ever been a better time for beer? With the press full of tales of woe ­ brewery takeovers and mergers, binge drinking, rows over licensing...

Beer quality: The cream of Cornwall

04-May-2005

In the latest of our features on the quest for quality, Adam Withrington met two regional brewers who are proudly flying the flag for quality cask...

'Try before you buy' scheme to boost Wadworth beers

17-Nov-2004

Wadworth is trying to turn more people onto cask beer by using a "try before you buy" scheme in its pubs.The Devizes-based brewer, whose brands...

Why the price isn't right…

21-Oct-2004

For any other premium product you would expect to pay a premium price, yet people still expect cask beer to be cheaper than lager. So how do you...

Drinkers back cask beer

21-Sep-2004

UK consumers are strongly behind the industry's attempts to save cask beer.In a survey carried out by the Independent Family Brewers of Britain...

Trade Talk: Stephen Goodyear

10-Sep-2004

Stephen Goodyear, chief executive of Youngs Brewery and chairman of the IFBB PR Committee on Cask Beer Week.Cask Beer Week launches later this month...

IFBB must admit Cain's error

22-Jan-2004

Anthony Fuller, chairman of the Independent Family Brewers of Britain, has learned a trick or two from professional politicians: when you're under...

It's just a Purbeck day...

04-Sep-2003

The Isle of Purbeck in Dorset sails under false colours. It's not an island, rather a large promontory firmly attached to the rest of the county. But...

Global warming bad for ale

21-Aug-2003

During the blistering heatwave of early August there were many references to 1976, the last occasion when the temperature was uncomfortably high for...

Pyrrhic victory for Freeman

31-Jul-2003

I refer to the article on 10 July and to Phil Dixon's column on 24 July concerning Brian Freeman and Punch Taverns. In March 2002 I was approached by...

An Olympian celebration...

31-Jul-2003

The Great British Beer Festival is more than just a showpiece for cask beer. It's an annual celebration of Britain's unique beer style. I've been...

Cask Beer Week aims to raise profile

17-Jul-2003

The great and the good of British brewing have come together to launch Cask Beer Week, which is being supported by the Morning Advertiser. The...

Fuller's fulfils cool promise

12-Dec-2002

We live in a cool age. I smile when my two sons ­ one just into his teens, the other two years younger ­ tell me that something is "cool", for it...