Marston's moves to end keg losses
26-Jul-2007 By Tony Halstead THals22851@aol.com
Marston's has cut off beer supplies to a number of wholesalers in an attempt to reduce the number of kegs being lost in the supply chain. Wholesalers...
26-Jul-2007 By Tony Halstead
Marston's has cut off beer supplies to a number of wholesalers in an attempt to reduce the number of kegs being lost in the supply chain. Wholesalers...
Cellar to Glass: plastic casks
15-Jun-2007
The crisis at Trenstar has highlighted once again one of the most intractable problems facing the pub and brewing industries.Theft of stainless steel...
30-May-2007 By Tony Halstead
Trenstar UK, the trade's biggest beer keg and cask handler, is in talks with its two major customers Carlsberg and Scottish & Newcastle after...
Trenstar's UK operations in doubt
24-May-2007 By Hamish Champ
Trenstar UK, the country's leading beer keg and cask owner, said it would operate normally for the foreseeable future despite launching a...
Business Opinion
26-Apr-2007
with James Crawfurd-Porter Brewers must keep an eye on their kegs Casks and kegs must be the most enduring eco-friendly packaging of modern times....
08-Mar-2007
A plan to charge licensees deposits of around £50 on kegs is now expected to be implemented at the end of the year. The call to have a deposit...
Hydes: profits drop sharply
22-Feb-2007 By The PMA Team
Manchester-based Hydes Brewery has reported a sharp drop in profits in its most recent year, after difficult times in its managed division and...
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...
Booker sells beer kegs
08-Nov-2006
Free traders who run out of kegged beer can now stock up at Booker. The cash and carry operator has become the first to sell beer kegs across the...
21-Sep-2006 By Tony Halstead
Licensees could be charged a deposit of between £10 and £20 for each beer keg or cask delivered to their premises unless the trade finds ways of...
Cool customers
26-Jul-2006
In spite of the unseasonal weather, demand for extra-cold beer is rising. Graham Ridout investigates effective ways of coping with drinkers' demands...
29-Jun-2006 By Ewan Turney
Beer prices could face a substantial hike after Britain's major keg supplier doubled its charges. TrenStar owns more than 60% of the nation's beer...
15-Jun-2006 By The PMA Team
London brewer and retailer Fuller's has joined the growing clamour over progressive beer duty and the way it is distorting the cask ale market....
06-Jun-2006 By Andrew Pring
Leading ale brewers have formed a think-tank dedicated to breathing new life into the declining cask market. Called "Why Handpull?", the new group...
Coors launches Cold Beer Station
29-Mar-2006
Coors Brewers has launched a new set of fonts for its extra cold offer, as it looks to improve the standing of beer on the bar.As exclusively...
Family brewers back beer duty review call
16-Mar-2006 By John Harrington
The body representing Britain's family brewers is backing calls for a review of the controversial tax break for small brewers. This comes amid fears...
02-Feb-2006 By Tony Halstead
Brewers defended surcharges of up to 50p per container imposed on hosts who order small casks and kegs - a policy which is netting big firms...
Keg thefts crisis could cause beer price hikes
25-Aug-2005
by John Harrington Beer prices could be forced up if the current spate of keg thefts continues. Last week it was claimed that up to 250,000 kegs...
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...
Heineken taps into David'
08-Apr-2004
Heineken UK has become the latest brewer to launch an innovative draught beer dispense system to improve service standards. Called "David", the...
Boost profits
26-Feb-2004
from beer The MA is throwing its weight behind an industry-wide campaign to improve the image of beer and standards of dispense in pubs. Under the...
Continental Copa
19-Feb-2004
Greene King pub Copa has taken the controversial step of destocking cask ale and replacing it with continental-style niche beers, reports Ben...
Siba action stamps on unauthorised cask use
15-Jan-2004
By Tony Halstead The Society of Independent Brewers is claiming a "great result" after halting the unauthorised use of casks by the Landlord's...
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...
Barrels shortage worries brewers
01-May-2003
By Tony Halstead The closure of the UK's sole producer of cask barrels has led to a container shortage which could threaten the future output of...
Through a glass darkly
20-Mar-2003
National brewers may be seeing their ale brands diminish, but regionals are performing well, as Graham Ridout found out Whenever the ale market is...
Microbrewery for former Courage site
05-Dec-2002
A microbrewery is to form part of a £150m redevelopment of the former Courage Brewery in Bristol. Work on the three-year project is expected to...
Clubber shot in the face
07-Nov-2002
Police are appealing for witnesses to come forward after a man was shot at a packed Coventry night-spot in the early hours of last Thursday morning....
Hot on the heels of the Society of Independent Family Brewer
17-Oct-2002
Britain's family brewers are still taking stock of the impact that Real Beer Week made on drinkers up and down the country. The week ended on 6...
Report on size of cask ale market sparks row
10-Jan-2002
A row has broken out over a report which claimed the cask ale market was much healthier than previously thought.The Business Guide to the Cask Ale...
