Pint

Sacha Lord forecasts up to 20p increase in cost of a pint

01-Apr-2022 By Rebecca Weller

Night-Time Economy Adviser for Greater Manchester, Sacha Lord, has forecasted a 16 to 20p rise in the cost of an average pint over the next 3 months as inflation, increased VAT pressures, and surging gas prices hit hospitality operators.

BBPA predicts 24.5m pints to be sold during Six Nations matches

11-Mar-2022 By Rebecca Weller

The British Beer & Pub Association (BBPA) has estimated 24.5m pints could be sold in UK pubs during the Guinness Six Nations Rugby Championship this weekend (Friday 11 and Saturday 12 March 2022), according to the BBPA’s beer sales volume survey alongside...

BrewDog to give away 1 million pints of beer

28-Feb-2018 By James Beeson

Scottish brewery BrewDog is to give away 1 million pints of beer in an ambitious attempt to convert new drinkers to craft beer.

Drinkers told to 'grass up pubs' over short measures

02-Feb-2018 By Nikkie Sutton

Consumers are being encouraged to ask for their pints to be topped up if they are short of a full measure.

Opinion

Pete Brown asks 'What price a good pint?'

04-Oct-2017 By Pete Brown

At £3 a third, Brooklyn Brewery’s rich, nuanced Cloaking Device is not a rip-off, it’s an astounding bargain

Bar staff insider: know-it-all customers

23-Aug-2017 By Bar staff insider

When you’ve been working in the trade for as long as I have, there’s not much worse than ‘teaching your grandmother to suck eggs’. 

Brewery reported to trading standards over Pint cans

13-Jun-2017 By James Beeson

Marble Brewery has been reported to trading standards over the sale of its Pint beer variant being sold in 500ml cans.

Creator of The Wire buys pub customers pints 'to apologise for Trump'

07-Jun-2017 By Georgina Townshend

The creator of American HBO TV series The Wire spent hundreds of pounds in a London pub, buying pints for punters to apologise for recent tweets sent by US president Donald Trump.

TV weatherman legend backs Fuller's free pints giveaway

06-Feb-2017 By Helen Gilbert

Fuller's has signed former weatherman Michael Fish as the face of a new campaign that promises to give punters a free pint of London Pride whenever it rains in the capital. 

LONDON

Night Tube sees drinks sales up, but food sales down

22-Dec-2016 By Finn Scott-Delaney from MCA

The introduction of the Night Tube to London has seen an uplift in drinks sales – but at the expense of food sales, a new report has shown.

Legislation

Beer prices could soar by 30p a pint

14-Nov-2016 By Michelle Perrett

The price of a pint of beer could be set to soar by 30p as pub companies face a “triple whammy” of pressures in the New Year, The Sunday Times has reported.

MA Sport

MatchPint and Carlsberg to offer free pints to customers at 100 freehouses

12-Oct-2016 By Liam Coleman

Pub-finder app MatchPint is reinvigorating its previously successful partnership with Carlsberg by launching a collaborative promotion with 100 freetrade pubs in Liverpool and Manchester.

Bar staff insider

Bar staff insider: the drinks you never want a customer to ask for

04-Oct-2016 By Bar staff insider

A Guinness and a bitter shandy – the two drinks that are the bane of a bartender’s life.

Leeds bar owner fined £20,000 after man is forced to have oesophagus removed

08-Jan-2016 By Emily Sutherland

A Leeds Bar owner has been fined £20,000 after serving beer accidentally containing caustic soda, leaving one drinker with such severe internal injuries his oesophagus had to be removed.

Drinking guidelines to call for twice weekly alcohol abstinence

04-Jan-2016 By Oli Gross

As the Government draws up new drinking guidelines, reports suggest consumption advice is set to be slashed due to health concerns.

Government drinking guidelines

Could we really be warned it's unsafe to drink one pint of beer?

13-Nov-2015 By Oli Gross

An anticipated reduction in Government’s guidelines could warn that drinking one pint of many of the country's most popular beers is unsafe.

Community hub

From pints to post: pub combines with shop and Post Office

28-Sep-2015 By Oli Gross

A North Yorkshire pub hopes customers will sway from "pint to post" after converting an old pool room into a Post Office to create a community hub.

Guv'nor: We can't afford to lose convivial appeal

23-Sep-2015 By Peter Tiley

Research earlier this year found that fewer than one in 10 pub visits are solely for the purpose of having a drink.

Pub Loan Fund

Pubs minister launches £1.5m fund to help locals buy pubs

11-Sep-2015 By Mike Berry

A new £1.5m fund to help local people take control of pubs at risk of closure has been launched by Community Pubs Minister Marcus Jones.

Nightmare children top complaint from pub goers

02-Sep-2015 By Emily Sutherland

Unruly children top the list of complaints from pub goers according to this year’s Good Pub Guide.

Beer

Only 12% of UK men opt for a pint in a pub

27-Aug-2015 By Emily Sutherland

A poll has found that only 12% of British men over 30 name beer or lager as their drink of choice in a pub, with one in five citing calories as the reason for their choice.

Punch set to launch free pint promotion

07-Apr-2015 By Mike Berry

Punch Taverns has teamed up with lager brands Carlsberg and Carling on a nationwide promotion giving drinkers the chance to enjoy a free pint in Punch pubs.

New research shows over 1,000 pubs saved by beer duty cuts

23-Feb-2015 By Ellie Bothwell

The Campaign for Real Ale (CAMRA) has urged the Chancellor to cut beer duty for a historic third time in next month’s Budget.

Editor's Comment

Price hikes defy logic

05-Feb-2015 By Rob Willock

Pub customers are understandably confused. And so are licensees. And so am I, frankly.

Good Pub Guide 2015: Regional breakdown of beer prices

04-Sep-2014 By Ellie Bothwell

The average price for a pint of beer in Britain is now £3.31, a 3.4% increase on last year, according to the Good Pub Guide 2015.

Second Butcher’s Hook for London operator

08-Aug-2014 By Elliot Kuruvita

The owner of London gastropub the Butcher’s Hook in Fulham, west London has opened another site.

Stonegate to host nationwide charity pub tour

09-May-2014

Stonegate Pub Company will launch Britain’s Biggest Pub Tour next week.

Southampton pub sells pints for 10p

28-Apr-2014 By Helen Gilbert

A Hampshire pub relived the swinging sixties in more ways than one when it served up 10p pints to mark 45 years of being in business. 

Minimum pricing would have 'negligible' impact on low income moderate drinkers, says report

10-Feb-2014 By Ellie Bothwell

Minimum alcohol pricing of 45p per unit would reduce deaths and hospital admissions among those who purchase large quantities of low cost alcohol, but would have negligible effects on low income moderate drinkers’ alcohol consumption and spending.

Young's offers free pints to celebrate 182nd birthday

20-Sep-2013 By John Harrington

Young’s, the London-based pub company, is giving away free pints of Young’s beer at its outlets in the capital via vouchers in City AM, Evening Standard, and Time Out, to celebrate its 182nd birthday.

How to pour a beer using your just your mind

17-Sep-2013 By Robyn Black

In the same week it was announced that the new iPhone offers “Touch ID,” which replaces the need for PINs with fingertip recognition, I poured a pint of beer using the power of thought.

Guinness harnesses new technology on fonts to engage consumers

07-Aug-2013 By Robyn Black

Technology fitted to the new Guinness fonts will enable punters to instantly win free pints, as well as get involved in offers and competitions.

Why we love lager

29-May-2013 By Robyn Black

It is not overstating the case to say that standard lager is the most important pint you pull and glass you pour in your pub.

Heineken’s £4m bid for pint perfection

23-May-2013 By Robyn Black

Heineken is pumping £4m into a 12-month programme to make sure publicans serve perfect pints.

Good things come to those who serve quality pints of Guinness

16-Apr-2013 By Robyn Black

Guinness teams will be visiting some 6,000 pubs and bars between now and the end of June in a bid to drive sales of the Black Stuff in the on-trade.

Beer Duty Debate: Beer in danger of becoming a luxury item

05-Mar-2013 By Michelle Perrett

A pint of beer is in danger of becoming a luxury item, Conservative MP for Nuneaton Marcus Jones has told the House of Commons today during a debate on the beer duty escalator.

Call time on unhealthy pub food

11-Feb-2013 By Pete Brown

As someone who loves pubs and thinks we spend too much time drawing attention to what’s wrong with our industry and not enough championing what’s right, I always feel a bit bad about using this column to criticise pubs.

Time to prove that beer is more popular than pasties - Sign the petition

02-May-2012 By Rob Willock

Nearly 500,000 people in the UK have signed petitions against the so-called ‘pasty tax’, which will see a 20% rate of VAT applied to heated pasties and pies. Meanwhile, at the time of writing, the ‘Stop the Beer Duty Escalator’ petition had managed to...

Looking forward to the green shoots of spring

23-Jan-2012 By Steve Haslam

First of all, happy new year to everybody and hopefully it was a great Christmas for you. But we know what follows now — back to the reality of the January blues.

Dragons Done?

15-Sep-2011 By Publican Sam

It’s not often that the TV makes me want to write about it, but the latest episode of BBC TV’s Dragon’s Den (series 9, episode 7) caught my attention to such an extent that I want to share a few thoughts.

GMB: pubco tenants interests too disparate for industrial action

13-Sep-2011 By Ewan Turney

Trade Union the GMB claims the interests of tied tenants are “too disparate” for them to unite and take industrial action against pubcos — plus tenants fear the power of the pubcos.

Fair Pint: 'Five pubs fail every day'

19-Apr-2011 By Ewan Turney

Anti-beer tie group Fair Pint believes the failure rate of pubs may be as high as five per day — it disputes figures given by BBPA.

Exclusive: JDW uses 'spotters' for ID patrols

10-Feb-2011 By The PMA Team

JD Wetherspoon has started to employ "spotters" to identify under-age drinkers that have slipped through the net at its pubs. They are being...

'Young women drinking dangerous levels of booze'

30-Jan-2011 By Hamish Champ

Government statistics show that girls aged under 15 are consuming an average 11.3 units of alcohol a week, the equivalent of six medium glasses of...

Pub lays claim to smallest cinema

28-Jan-2011 By Matt Eley Matt

Is this the smallest public cinema in the country? Staff at the Old Fighting Cocks in Telford, Shropshire, seem to think so. They have transformed...

Pub food: business boosters

25-Jan-2011 By Jo Bruce

Ideas for driving food and drink sales at your pub including a ten-pence sale, art exhibitions and a customer-run kitchen and bar.

'Beer: how much would you pay?'

20-Jan-2011

The average price of a pint has risen above £3 for the first time. After the VAT increase, Britain's largest breweries have warned it's likely there...

Robert Sayles: The sanctity of the round

19-Jan-2011 By Robert Sayles Robert

I looked at the clock; 6:42. They should be arriving any minute now. Reaching down to retrieve some glasses I happened to glance through the window...

Brewers blame rising costs for price hikes

12-Jan-2011 By James Wilmore

The 'Big Four' brewers have blamed increasing costs after revealing the wholesale price of key lager brands are set to increase by around 5p a pint....

VAT rise adds 6p on a pint of beer

04-Jan-2011 By Ewan Turney

The Government should consider a lesser rate of VAT for the hospitality trade after today's rise to 20% is expected to add 6p on a pint. That's the...