Henley-On-Thames

BIG INTERVIEW

The Big Interview: Tom Davies of Brakspear

23-Oct-2023 By Gary Lloyd

Regrets? Tom Davies of Brakspear doesn’t dwell on them.

‘Ginuary’ comes to Henley-on-Thames

14-Dec-2017 By Stuart Stone

Henley-on-Thames will host its first ever gin trail in January thanks to a collaboration between locally distilled Mr Hobbs Gin and Brakspear.

Pubco offers countryside walking app to attract younger crowd

02-Nov-2017 By Helen Gilbert

Brakspear is hoping to target younger drinkers with an interest in walking via a new app that details countryside trails within the Oxfordshire and Berkshire regions.

Action group 'on the verge' of regaining pub

27-Jun-2017 By Fred A'Court

Villagers may be on the verge of getting their pub back after a 14-year battle involving a brewery, their local MP, a five-day public enquiry and council planning officers.

Brakspear chief pulls pints for Sue Ryder charity

19-Apr-2017 By Georgina Townshend

Going back to his bartending roots, Brakspear’s chief executive pulled pints to help the company raise £51,000 for a chosen charity.

Pub celebrates D-Day anniversary with fake bomb raid

09-Jun-2014 By James Wallin

A pub hosted a D-Day commemoration with a difference – complete with air shelter, fake bomb raid and a week in Normandy as first prize in a fancy dress contest.

Brakespear pub wins Good Food accolade

26-May-2011 By Lesley Foottit

A Brakspear pub has been named a regional winner of The Good Food Guide's Restaurant of the Year Award. Orwells in Shiplake near Henley won the...

Tom Davies: Brakspear's man of action

24-May-2011 By Phil Mellows

Tom Davies is the new youthful face at the helm of Brakspear. Phil Mellows finds out how the optimistic chief executive is taking things forward...

Brakspear pubs win £2K each at awards

06-Apr-2011 By Michelle Perrett

Tenants at six Brakspear pubs have received £2,000 each as winners of the first ever Hospitality Awards. The awards were made to the licensees who...

Brakspear won't let 'unviable' pub

04-Mar-2011 By The PMA Team

Henley-based pub company Brakspear is refusing to let a pub it believes would be in danger of sending tenants bankrupt. The White Horse in Henley's...

Brakspear's hat-trick of reopened pubs

10-Jun-2010 By Gemma McKenna

Brakspear Pub Company has reopened three pubs in its home town of Henley on Thames, Oxfordshire.

Scores on the Doors warning for pubs

13-Apr-2010 By Matt Eley Matt

A licensee who feels he was harshly treated by health inspectors is warning new tenants to let authorities know when they start, to avoid the same...

THE GUV'NOR

07-Jun-2007

Paul Clerehugh Be prepared for unannounced visits from the tax man, warns the licensee of the Crooked Billet in Stoke-Rowe, Oxfordshire Recently I...

Hotel du Vin opens at Brakspear site

17-Mar-2005

The former Brakspear brewery in Henley has re-opened as the seventh Hotel du Vin. The collection of buildings encircling the old brewery yard houses...

Wychwood is the new Henley for Brakspear

07-Aug-2003

by Andrew Pring Brakspear's new base is to be at Wychwood Brewery in Witney, Oxfordshire, just over 30 miles from its spiritual home at Henley on...

Henley site earmarked for luxury hotel development

12-Jun-2003

Winchester-based Hotel du Vin is to apply to build a 42-bedroom luxury hotel on the site of the former Brakspear brewery in Henley-on-Thames. The...

FastPour trial ­ was it the stuff of bitterness?

22-May-2003

Was FastPour Guinness a trial that followed a bitter experience by a very senior Guinness executive? One story circulating in the trade is that he...

Brakspear adds letting bedrooms to rural pubs

15-May-2003

by MA Correspondent Brakspear has embarked on a policy of adding letting bedrooms to its rural pubs as part of an investment drive following the...

Brakspear sells brewery site for £10m

08-May-2003

Claire Hu Brakspear has sold the site of its former brewery in Henley-on-Thames to developers for £10m, finally closing the book on a tradition...

Brakspear site debate hots up

06-Mar-2003

by Claire Hu The closure of Brakspear's brewery in Henley-on-Thames at the end of last year left many locals feeling resentful. Yet the row over the...

Industry expert launches attack on large pub companies

24-Sep-2002

Beer industry expert Roger Protz has launched a scathing attack on the country's giant pub companies accusing them of conducting an "extortion...