Julian Grocock: Sometimes you just have to compromise
19-Aug-2009
I was coming back after the Great British Beer Festival and four nights in a windowless cell at Stelios's Easy Hotel in Earls Court. It was indeed...
Pub bitch: beaches, maidens and handbags
17-Aug-2009
Morgan's maidens With the weather playing havoc with this year's Ashes Test series, at least Marston's Brewing Company has been on hand to provide...
13-Aug-2009 By David Elliott
I love beer —and most of all I love a good pint of cask ale in a pub. It's something that just cannot be replicated anywhere else in the world. You...
10-Aug-2009 By Robyn Lewis
A record number of beer fans attended this year's Great British Beer Festival, with numbers up 7.6% on last year according to Camra.
07-Aug-2009 By Ewan Turney
The Campaign for Real Ale (Camra) has launched a petition to save Carlsberg's Tetley brewery in Leeds from closure.
Beer group calls for clarity in beer styles
06-Aug-2009 By Matt Eley Matt
The European Beer Consumers Union (EBCU) has used the Great British Beer Festival (GBBF) as the launch pad for a new campaign calling for clarity and...
Video: Champion Beer of Britain brewer hails win
06-Aug-2009 By John Harrington
MATV caught up with Rudgate Brewery's Craig Lee and Jamie Allen, following its win at the Great British Beer Festival.
'Heavy drinking can double the risk of cancer'
05-Aug-2009 By Matt Eley Matt
Heavy drinking, especially beer and spirits, has been linked to several different kinds of cancer. Drinkers who prefer wine do not appear to face the...
05-Aug-2009 By Ewan Turney
Titanic Stout has been crowned Champion Bottled Beer of Britain and will now be sold through 100 bars and cafes by Travelodge. Titanic scooped the...
04-Aug-2009 By Ewan Turney
The Campaign for Real Ale (Camra) is celebrating its 100,000th member on the day the Great British Beer Festival kicks off.
04-Aug-2009 By Ewan Turney
Trade union Unite has called for reform of the beer tie, a review of smoking regulations and a fair deal for pub managers in its pub trade manifesto....
CAMRA raises a glass to its 100,000th member
04-Aug-2009 By Matt Eley Matt
As the Great British Beer Festival (GBBF) opens its doors today, event organiser CAMRA has revealed it has reached the milestone of 100,000 members....
GBBF brewers hope to capitalise on cask success
03-Aug-2009
Brewers will this week attempt to attract more consumers into the burgeoning cask ale category at the Great British Beer Festival (GBBF). The event...
27-Jul-2009 By Gemma McKenna
Campaigners are battling to save a Herefordshire pub regarded as having "national importance". The grade-II listed Sun Inn in Leintwardine, near...
Battle to save pub 'untouched' for 200 years
27-Jul-2009 By Claire Dodd Claire
Residents of a Shropshire village are battling to save their unique village pub after the landlady of 74 years passed away in June. Florence Lane,...
John Porter: Here for the beer? No chance.
15-May-2009
OK, I understand that sometimes a particular beer runs out, or the crisp flavour you fancy is out of stock. Predicting the peaks and troughs of...
24-Mar-2009 By Tony Halstead
Regional brewers have formed a new marketing body dedicated to raising the profile of cask beer. The Why Handpull? Marketing Group hopes to launch a...
Cask brewers form new body to promote category
23-Mar-2009
A new alliance of regional brewers has been formed with the long-term aim of funding a generic marketing campaign for cask beer.It is hoped that...
19-Mar-2009 By John Harrington
Marston's beer boss Stephen Oliver says he "regrets" some of his "intemperate" descriptions of certain real ale enthusiasts, who he labelled...
Want to save a pub? It only costs £25
14-Aug-2008
A pub lover has launched an ambitious project to help thousands of like-minded people buy their own venue. Steve Dews, finance director at software...
GBBF attendance falls by 10 per cent
13-Aug-2008
The Great British Beer Festival has been hailed a success by organisers despite a 10 per cent fall in attendance.Around 59,000 people visited the...
13-Aug-2008 By John Harrington
Attendance at this year's Great British Beer Festival was down 10% on 2007, reflecting the overall downturn in pub visits, but bar sales remained at a good level.
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...
Cains: The first big casualty of the credit crunch?
11-Aug-2008 By Hamish Champ
Ah, the 'Glorious Twelfth'. Hundreds of be-tweeded gents will this week be traipsing across the nation's moors, blasting assorted wildfowl from the...
CAMRA launches new book: A Beer A Day
08-Aug-2008
The Campaign for Real Ale (CAMRA) wants drinkers to try a beer a day - and has published a new book to tell them how. The book, A Beer a Day, was...
James Wilmore: Good vibes at the GBBF
08-Aug-2008 By James Wilmore
What a refreshing change. Here at Publican towers we sometimes feel like a branch of the Samaritans. Fielding phone calls from distressed licensees...
'Women drink-driving on the rise'
07-Aug-2008
Road safety campaigners have urged the government to lower the drink-drive limit after a survey published yesterday revealed that up to 42 per cent...
MP calls for more education on alcohol
06-Aug-2008 By James Wilmore
MP Greg Mulholland has called for young people to be educated about alcohol to understand its positive aspects. Speaking at the official opening of...
05-Aug-2008 By Ewan Turney
The Chancellor will go down in history as the man who launched the £5 pint for the London Olympics and closed thousands of community pubs. That is...
Pubs are answer to binge-drinking problems, says CAMRA
05-Aug-2008 By Matt Eley Matt
The Great British Beer Festival (GBBF) was set to get underway today with the cloud of rising beer prices hanging over the industry. Scores of...
CAMRA's mission to get more to try ale
04-Aug-2008
Only one in three British drinkers have actually tried real ale, research issued today by the Campaign for Real Ale (CAMRA) shows. CAMRA also found...
Volunteers gear up for Great British Beer Festival
03-Aug-2008
What do an investment banker, a teacher, an IT consultant and a bus driver have in common? They are all part of the team of volunteers who helped...
CAMRA to protest at Great British Beer Festival
01-Aug-2008
The Great British Beer Festival (GBBF) will get underway next week with a protest by scores of Alistair Darling impersonators. Members of the...
The Publican backs beer and brewing
25-Jun-2008
The Publican is underlining its support for beer and brewing by backing two of the major events in the real ale calendar. This summer's Great British...
Oktoberfest: Time to take note?
21-Nov-2007
Adam writes: People have a lot of clichéd, pre-conceived ideas about the Oktoberfest in Munich - I know I did. I had images in my mind of steins,...
Branded glassware can get your goatee
06-Sep-2007
On the way to the eagerly-awaited World Beard and Moustache Championships in Brighton last weekend (a bit similar to the Great British Beer...
Yeast feast
01-Sep-2007
Susan Nowak serves up ideas on how to match a delicious variety of beers to complementary bread styles It's no wonder that beer and bread have such...
What the Sunday papers said
12-Aug-2007
Dr James Le Fanu writes in the Sunday Telegraph that the smoking ban "threatens to kill off that traditional centre of community life, the pub". A...
Hobsons Mild is new Champion Beer of Britain
09-Aug-2007
Hobsons Mild has been named Champion Beer of Britain at the Campaign for Real Ale's Great British Beer Festival. The 3.2% abv beer is described by...
Camra: local beers mean greener pints
09-Aug-2007 By Ewan Turney ewan.turney@william-reed.co.uk
Pubs should embrace ales from local breweries as the greenest way to serve a pint, according to the Campaign for Real Ale (Camra). As the Great...
Join GBBF's birthday bash
09-Aug-2007
If you haven't been already, there's still time to get yourself down to Earl's Court and sample some of the finest alcoholic beverages mankind has...
MP slams ADZs and blanket glass bans
08-Aug-2007 By James Wilmore
Tory MP Nicholas Winterton has hit out at alcohol disorder zones (ADZs) and blanket glass bans, during a rousing speech at the Great British Beer...
Champion Beer of Britain 2007 announced
07-Aug-2007
Hobsons Mild has been crowned the 2007 Champion Beer of Britain at the Great British Beer Festival (GBBF). The beer beat off stiff competition from...
What the papers say - August 7, 2007
07-Aug-2007 By Eleanor Goodman
Jane Seymour, the actress best known for her performance as a Bond girl in Live and Let Die, is being taken to court by neighbours who want to stop...
Stolen GBBF beer replaced in time for festival start
06-Aug-2007 By Eleanor Goodman
The Campaign For Real Ale (CAMRA) has told beer fans not to worry after a lorry of 15,000 pints destined for the Great British Beer Festival was...
Thursday July 12: Toast your team
27-Jun-2007
The frontline of pub retailing the people who customers are most likely to deal with face-to-face are the nation¹s barstaff.That¹s why, on...
GBBF hits 30
18-Jun-2007
The Great British Beer Festival (GBBF) is celebrating its 30th birthday this year. The event, which this year will see the trade session sponsored by...
Brewer calls for urgent PDB review
08-Mar-2007 By Tony Halstead THals22851@aol.com
Another regional brewery boss has called for a review of progressive beer duty (PBD) to create a fair system for all small brewers. Guy Newell, of...
NewsDigest
23-Nov-2006
A new report calls for raising the age for buying cigarettes in Scotland from 16 to 18. It also calls for the licensing of cigarette sales north of...
Capturing a new audience
26-Oct-2006
Brewers everywhere should follow the example of the Yorkshire Great Beer and Food Show, which proves how successful festivals can be, says Peter...