Cellar Management

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Anspach & Hobday capacity hits 1.76m pints per year

03-Nov-2022 By Gary Lloyd

London-based cask and keg brewer Anspach & Hobday has completed the expansion of its brewery following a crowdfunding drive that mean it is now capable of producing 1.76m pints per year.

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Cask and keg brewers join for Theakston’s first collab

21-Oct-2022 By Gary Lloyd

Yorkshire-based brewery T&R Theakston has joined forces with Newcastle-upon-Tyne’s Wylam Brewery to create Henry’s Pick – the first collaboration beer since the family brewer was founded almost 200 years ago.

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If you love cask ale, is it OK to flirt with keg?

20-Oct-2022 By Pete Brown

Since CAMRA’s foundation, some real ale devotees have insisted it’s the only style of beer worth taking seriously. But times have changed, and so has beer.

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Liverpool-based Big Bog wins SIBA regional award

17-Oct-2022 By Gary Lloyd

Liverpool microbrewery Big Bog Brewing Co has won the Overall Champion Cask Beer Award at the Society of Independent Brewers (SIBA) North-West Independent Beer Awards 2022, which took place at the Bolton Beer Festival.

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Beer Piper launches beer-saving calculator

06-Oct-2022 By Gary Lloyd

Beer line cleaning business Beer Piper has launched an online calculator to help publicans save money and offered six tips to help keep money in licensees’ pockets.

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Kelham Island Brewery saved from closure

05-Oct-2022 By Gary Lloyd

Sheffield’s oldest independent brewery has been saved from closure by a six-strong group made up of beer, music and art fans.

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Purity pub charges premium price for cask

03-Oct-2022 By Purity Brewing Co

Contrary to some preconceptions, when properly ‘looked after’ and poured, cask ales can range from cool, light, zesty and refreshing to dark, rich and complex, with an infinite variety of styles, flavours and aromas in between.

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Big boys have ‘dumbed down cellarmanship’

27-Sep-2022 By Gary Lloyd

St Austell brewing director Georgina Young believes the art of cellarmanship is being dumbed down and, because cask beer is exclusively made only in the UK, it must be saved.

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St Austell lists Salcombe brew, Theakston triples distribution

20-Sep-2022 By Gary Lloyd

South-west-based brewer and pub operator St Austell has recently listed cask and kegged beers from Salcombe Brewery while brewer T&R Theakston has seen the distribution of its Summit variant rise threefold since the start of summer.

Zero Carbon Forum: onus on operators to cut carbon

12-Sep-2022 By Gary Lloyd

Not-for-profit eco-friendly group Zero Carbon Forum has argued the onus is on sector operators to cut their carbon footprints but they can also save on energy costs at the same time.

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Anspach & Hobday vows to grow cask beer production

05-Sep-2022 By Gary Lloyd

London brewer and taproom operator Anspach & Hobday has pledged to grow its cask beer volumes as it triples its production capacity.

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Shepherd Neame brews green hops beer for festival

31-Aug-2022 By Gary Lloyd

Shepherd Neame is set to turn fresh green hops into beer for the return of the Faversham Hop Festival after a two-year hiatus.

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All the technical help you need for cask

28-Jul-2022 By Gary Lloyd

Adding a cask beer offering to your pub can be a great way to introduce a new revenue stream while paying homage to what many describe as the most quintessentially British of products.

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Top cellar tips to ensure quality cask

04-Jul-2022 By Su Stafford, St Austell Brewery trade quality manager

When it comes to cask beer, cellar management is key to achieving top quality and taste. St Austell Brewery’s trade quality manager, Su Stafford, gives her top tips.

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New cask ales to hit pubs UK-wide

29-Jun-2022 By Gary Lloyd

Cask fans will be able to enjoy new beers from Black Sheep Brewery and Salcombe Brewery Co next month (July).

Black Sheep partners comedy star to fight back on cask

22-Jun-2022 By Gary Lloyd

Masham-based Black Sheep Brewery has launched the latest phase of its Drink Cask Beer campaign with the launch of a ‘mean tweets’ video starring comedian Maisie Adam that addresses haters of the cask category.

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Cask can be ‘completely sublime’

17-Jun-2022 By Gary Lloyd

Masham-based family brewer T&R Theakston has been a champion of cask ale for almost 200 years.

SmartDispense event to focus on sustainability

25-May-2022 By Gary Lloyd

Heineken SmartDispense has announced it will host its inaugural Energy Well Spent Summit, which will take place on 12 July at Villa Park, Birmingham.

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Is it time to reform the tradition of cask beer?

05-May-2022 By Dr Steve Housden, beer expert

I write as a lover of cask-conditioned ale and a veteran of some 40-odd years of brewing it, caring for it in pub cellars and, of course, drinking it.

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Call for new cask ale operators

19-Apr-2022 By Ed Bedington

With cask beer being a unique product for UK pub operators, it’s important to ensure pubs are maximising the opportunity and getting it right and The Morning Advertiser (MA) is now seeking new operators to the trade to help them lay solid foundations...

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MA launches The Cask Project to save beer category

04-Apr-2022 By The Morning Advertiser

A campaign to re-energise cask beer has been launched to reinstall it in pride of place on the bar of pubs throughout the country.

Publican Awards 2022

Meet the finalists: Best Brewing Pub Company sponsored by Food Alert

21-Mar-2022 By The Morning Advertiser

This year’s award for Best Brewing Pub Company will be given to the business based on its strength in combining brewing operations and its pub estate together.

Tech feature

Tech feature – Is tech still important post-Covid?

21-Feb-2022 By Gary Lloyd

The use of technology has been seen as something to fear according to plenty of Hollywood movies.

More taprooms to open while and low and no set to flourish in 2022

20-Dec-2021 By Gary Lloyd

A rise in the number of brewery taprooms along with low and no-alcohol beers will take centre stage in 2022, according to beer line cleaning expert Beer Piper.

‘Payroll chaos’ at GXO threatens beer deliveries to thousands of pubs

20-Dec-2021 By Nikkie Thatcher

An industrial action ballot has been threatened at logistics firm GXO because of a “complete mess” in the new payroll system.

Don’t undersell cask beer – it can’t be replicated at home

25-Oct-2021 By Gary Lloyd

“There’s nothing like this.” Some of the more ‘seasoned’ readers may remember this as a hit song for soul singer Omar 30 years again when it peaked at number 14 in the UK music charts. However, the statement also rings true of cask ale.

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Autumn International rugby was made for Guinness

04-Oct-2021 By Diageo

With sporting events back in action, there is a fantastic chance for operators to re-engage with multiple occasions and cater for the pent-up demand for quality on trade experiences.

Free Heineken SmartDispense up for grabs

10-May-2021 By Heineken

Heineken is giving twelve lucky operators the chance to win with SmartDispense over the next 12 months, inclusive of three years free services and line cleaning as well as additional staff training benefits and access to the Heineken Buying Club – all...

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Perfect pints – born in the cellar, raised at the bar

23-Oct-2020 By The Morning Advertiser

Even in the throes of a global pandemic, maintaining a stellar pub cellar is far from small beer, especially with potentially lower product throughput. The Morning Advertiser looks at how Covid-19 has shifted demand downstairs.

Opinion

What cellar management tips can help reopened pubs save money?

01-Jul-2020 By Jeff Singer, Beer Piper

With Britain’s pub and bar industry still riding out the Covid-19 pandemic, it’s natural that operators and bar managers will be looking at ways to operate as efficiently as possible when they open again.

How to create a best cellar

10-Feb-2020 By Stuart Stone

Serving the best possible drinks is vital in keeping customers coming back – get it wrong and you can kiss those drinkers goodbye. But if you can keep your cellar in mint condition, you could make a real name for yourself

Cellar management: how to keep your kit in prime condition

13-Nov-2019 By Michelle Perrett

There are many aspects to good cellarmanship, here is a rundown of some of the things you must ensure are kept in optimum condition

Heineken reduces brewer connection fees to £10.50

26-Oct-2018 By Nicholas Robinson

Heineken has scrapped its £145 one-off brewer connection fee in favour of a monthly £10.50 pay-as-you-go charge with a view to “levelling the playing field”.

Cellar to glass

30-Jan-2004

It has become as clear as a perfect pint that the traditional publican's craft of cellar management now requires a much broader set of skills and...

Clean up with a perfect pint

10-Jul-2003

There's no escaping the fact that cleanliness is next to­ the perfect pint. This should be the maxim of all licensees and cellar staff. When it...

Too late to cry wolf over bill

03-Jul-2003

Where have the pub companies and trade bodies been for the last five years? Is it really credible to believe that organisations so closely involved...

Cellar management

30-Oct-2002

Over the next couple of pages, we focus on cellar management, with tips including how brewery courses are focusing on commercial benefits and the...

More on cellar management

30-Oct-2002

Phil Mellows looks at how the content of Interbrew's cellar training has changed, and at how Hall & Woodhouse staff are being offered free...