Analysis
14-Oct-2020 By Stuart Stone
How does the UK Government's support for the hospitality sector stack up against what's being offered on the continent?
03-Aug-2017 By Nikkie Sutton
Publican Awards winners North Brewing Co has revealed that its beers are now being drunk around the world.
The Pub Conference
20-Jun-2016 By Oli Gross
Tim Martin has insisted that JD Wetherspoon is not a brand and stressed that its position on the high street continues to evolve.
01-Aug-2013 By Robyn Black
A new session beer from Czech brewery Budvar is set to be launched in UK pubs and bars.
Support grows for petition calling on the Government to recognise the importance of British beer
11-Mar-2013 By Michelle Perrett
A petition calling on the Government to recognise the importance of British beer has received 358 signatures.
15-Jan-2013
Snifter knows a few people who enjoy climbing into a mash tun now and again, so imagine how they must feel about the opportunity to sleep inside a giant beer barrel.
14-Feb-2012 By Adam Pescod
National Pubwatch recognised the good practice displayed by two licensees — Janet Dooner and Miles Murphy — by presenting them each with an Outstanding Contribution Award last week.
17-Feb-2011 By Ewan Turney
Anti-beer tie group Fair Pint has urged all licensees unhappy with their pubco to get in touch with the Business, Innovation & Skills Select...
05-Nov-2010 By Lesley Foottit
The Netherlands has become the first European country to overturn its smoking ban — by allowing more than 2,000 pubs to re-introduce smoking.
13-Sep-2010 By Robyn Black
Diageo is launching an ambitious new initiative for its Smirnoff brand, in a bid to create buzz and excitement around the vodka globally. The...
Pub takes euros for beer
17-Aug-2010 By James Wilmore
A Dorset pub has decided to accept euros for a limited period in a nod to the huge numbers of German and Dutch tourists visiting the county this...
19-Jul-2010 By Lesley Foottit
Anti-tie campaign group Fair Pint has expressed confidence in the chance for "meaningful reform" of the relationship between tied tenants and their...
05-Jul-2010 By Lesley Foottit
Smoking will be banned at Germany's famous annual festival Oktoberfest following a public vote. Lighting up will now be prohibited from 1 August in...
18-Jun-2010 By Gemma McKenna
Raising duty and VAT will see UK beer drinkers shelling out an extra £100m by the end of 2010, says the Campaign for Real Ale (CAMRA).
Mulholland vows to continue beer tie fight
11-Jun-2010 By James Wilmore
Outspoken Lib Dem MP Greg Mulholland has vowed to continue campaigning for reform of the beer tie, after being re-elected chairman of the All-Party...
11-Jun-2010 By Gemma McKenna
Outspoken Lib Dem MP Greg Mulholland has been re-elected as chair of the All Party Parliamentary Save the Pub Group at the group's inaugural meeting...
Proud of Pubs Week: Get your MP into your pub
03-Jun-2010 By Matt Eley Matt
With a change in government and more than 200 newly elected MPs there has never been a better time to get the people in power into your pub. And...
21-May-2010 By John Harrington
Carlsberg has announced its sponsorship of the Euro 2012 football tournament. It's the seventh time the brewer has sponsored the European...
14-Jan-2010 By Lesley Foottit
The Campaign for Real Ales (CAMRA) National Winter Ales Festival will feature over 200 beers this year and takes place on 20 January.
Mulholland slams BBPA over pub industry debate
10-Nov-2009 By Hamish Champ
Greg Mulholland, the Lib Dem MP who chairs the All-Party Parliamentary Save the Pub Group, has slammed the sector's leading trade body for refusing...
10-Sep-2009 By Gemma McKenna
A Leeds barman has won the Pilsner Urquell UK Master Bartender of the Year, and will go on to represent the nation in the international finals to be...
27-May-2008 By MA reporter
It will be harder to generate sales from Euro 2008 with no Home Nations involved but it won't be impossible. You just need to be more creative and...
Pete Robinson: What we can learn from the Germans
23-Apr-2008
The 'business' part of my sojourn was completed mercifully quickly leaving plenty of time to explore some of Germany's finest bars, bierkellers,...
Pete Robinson: The German "smoking ban" is a big joke
14-Nov-2007
Let me begin by declaring I have no time for the corrupt army of EU bureaucrats ensconced in Brussels but I regularly travel throughout Europe on...
Pubs left out of streamlined EU rules on organic food
13-Jun-2007
Pubs will be exempt - for now - from new European Union (EU) rules on food labeling designed to make it easier for consumers to identify organic and...
Brains goes Continental
10-Apr-2007
Brains has launched its first continental style beer targeted at 18 - 35 year olds in Wales called 45. Brewed in Cardiff, 45, is made with pure welsh...
FIONA SIMS - columnist
20-Jul-2006
With a run of good vintages and some very affordable offerings, there's never been a better time to put Riesling on your wine list
17-May-2006 By Iain O'Neil
Beer lovers who are lucky enough to be heading to Germany to watch England in the World Cup might want to pocket CAMRA's latest book as a travel...
Dining Deutsch part 2
01-May-2006 By Jo Bruce
The first game of the World Cup kicks of in Munich on 9 June. PubChef headed to Bavaria to explore the region's culinary scene and look at produce...
01-Mar-2006
Dear Surgery: I am looking at featuring German produce and dishes on my menu during the World Cup. Where can I find some ideas?
Bock to the future for old Artois brand
30-Jun-2005
Interbrew is relaunching its Artois Bock beer this week, a 6.2% abv speciality beer which has not been available since 1960. Bock will be available...
'Germany top for binge drinking'
06-Aug-2004
Germans are more likely than Britons to binge drink, with 17 per cent believing that "the point of drinking is to get drunk".This compares to eight...
Carlsberg calls time on Holsten UK
11-Jun-2004
Carlsberg has called time on Holsten UK.The Danish giant acquired its parent company in a £363m deal in January and has announced that from July,...
Interbrew U-turn on Staropramen
06-Nov-2003
Interbrew UK has bowed to drinker pressure and announced that the brewing of its draught Staropramen brand is returning to the Czech Republic from...
Hop to it
23-Oct-2003
At Wingersheim, a small town at the centre of the Alsace hop farms, I travelled on a bumpy trailer behind a tractor to view the fields with their...
German wine rises
16-Oct-2003
Germany makes some of the most appealing light and fruity wines in the world. Sadly, its reputation has suffered from too much bland, over-sulphured,...
Irish humble German's in beer drinking premiership
18-Sep-2003
The world famous Oktoberfest kicks off this Saturday in Munich. The usual picture painted is of thousands of visitors quaffing vast quantities of...
Holsten launches first non-alcoholic beer
17-Jul-2003
Amid talk of responsible drinking, Holsten UK is doing its bit by launching its first non-alcoholic beer (NAB).Brewed in Hamburg, Germany, and with...
Chancellor
19-Dec-2002
has reason to get shirty Chancellor Gordon Brown could be in for some unexpected laundry as UK pub chain chiefs take a lead from Germany and send him...
SABMiller trading update sees results ahead of last year
17-Sep-2002
SABMiller, the world's second largest brewer, has announced that its results and earnings per share for the first five months until the end of August...
Locals protest against brewery closure
30-Jul-2002
Locals have objected to news that the world-famous Three Tuns brewery at Bishops Castle in Shropshire could be knocked down.Secretary of the...
Bad news for Bass on brewery purchase and Czech merger
27-Oct-1997
Bass is set to lose out on yet another major UK purchase and has suffered a setback in the Czech Republic.Bass was thought to be the most obvious...
