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A small Welsh community pub has become the first-ever establishment from the country to win the Campaign for Real Ale's (Camra) National Pub of the Year award. The Bridge End Inn, Ruabon, only reopened, having been revived by its current owners, in March 2009.
Posted: 10 February 2012 | 00:05
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Posted: 09 February 2012 | 15:00
Rodger Vickers has been named the independent chairman of the new Pub Independent Conciliation and Arbitration Service (PICAS) Panel. Vickers has had a long career as a chartered surveyor solely involved in licensed and leisure property and is a practice consultant at Brownill Vickers...
Posted: 01 February 2012 | 10:56
Punters are invited to pull their own pints at a new self service pub, which opened in London last week. The Thirsty Bear has opened in the refurbished site of the Stamford Arms in Blackfriars and gives guests the power to order food and drinks without leaving their seats, through a bespoke system using Apple iPads...
Posted: 01 February 2012 | 10:03
Marston's has become the latest in the line of big companies to report positive sales over Christmas, with like-for-like sales in its managed pubs for the 16 weeks to 21 January up 5% on the previous year. Like-for-like food sales climbed 5.5% but wet sales also rose by 4.8%.
Posted: 27 January 2012 | 11:05
The owners of the east London beer brand Truman's are calling on ale drinkers in the capital to help them find a site for its new brewery. James Morgan and Michael-George Hemus refounded the brand in 2010...
Posted: 25 January 2012 | 11:47
Pub beer sales fell yet again in 2011, down 3.4% for the year, although off-trade sales were also down. The British Beer and Pub Association's (BBPA) Beer Barometer showed that the falls had helped contribute to 9,000 job losses in the beer and pub sector in 2011.
Posted: 23 January 2012 | 00:05
Greene King has unearthed a 75-year-old beer brewed to celebrate the coronation of Edward VIII, who was never crowned. The Suffolk brewer's Coronation Ale was due to be sold around Britain to commemorate the anniversary of the king's first year on the throne in 1936.
Posted: 20 January 2012 | 15:26
British brewers showcased a new range of lower-strength beers in Parliament yesterday, following the change in taxation introduced last year, which lowered the tax for beer under 2.8% abv. The event was organised by the by the All-Party Parliamentary Beer Group and attended by Health Minister Anne Milton.
Posted: 19 January 2012 | 12:00
Cornish brewery Driftwood's beer "Alfie's Revenge" has today been crowned the Supreme Champion Winter Beer of Britain 2012 by a panel of judges at the National Winter Ales Festival in Manchester. The 6.5% ABV old ale is described in CAMRA's Good Beer Guide 2012 as a "strong and fruity, well-balanced premium ale".
Posted: 18 January 2012 | 16:38
London-based pub company the Draft House has launched a competition for beer-lovers to design, brew, and name their own cask ale. The winner will see 50 firkins (3,600 pints) of their dream beer created, brewed and named by them.
Posted: 17 January 2012 | 18:51
Beer writer Melissa Cole makes a point of chastising brewers and pub operators who use the terms "malty" and "hoppy" to describe beer. Beer deserves, as she points out, a little bit more reverence than that. It certainly has begun to receive it as the growing ranks of the beerati get more vocal.
Posted: 13 January 2012 | 11:04
MPs have backed a House of Commons motion which requires the Government to commission an independent review of self regulation in the pub sector. The move came after a debate in the Commons today in which MPs criticised the Government for rejecting proposals by the Business Innovation and Skills Committee...
Posted: 12 January 2012 | 16:49
Manchester-based brewer and pub company Hydes is to close its 150-year-old Queens Brewery in Moss Side ahead of a move to a new facility in the area and withdraw from the free trade market. The company said it had identified "a number of suitable premises" that met its needs for the future and would invest...
Posted: 09 January 2012 | 13:28
Mark Hunter, the chief executive of Molson Coors UK, has taken over from Marston's boss Ralph Findlay as chairman of the British Beer & Pub Association (BBPA). The move comes as Findlay completes his two-year term of office. Hunter joined Bass Brewers in the 1980s and became marketing director in 1997.
Posted: 14 December 2011 | 14:14
The Campaign for Real Ale (Camra) has revealed the four finalists of its National Pub of the Year competition for 2011: Engineers Arms, 68 High Street, Henlow, Bedfordshire; Bridge End Inn, 5 Bridge Street, Ruabon, Wrexham; Front, Custom House Quay, Falmouth, Cornwall; Swan with Two Necks, Main Street, Pendleton, Lancashire
Posted: 14 December 2011 | 13:08
Enterprise Inns has won a High Court case against the company that runs the Lord Palmerston pub in Dulwich, south east London, following a dispute over the beer tie. Enterprise took Palmerstone Associates to court, accusing the operator of...
Posted: 30 November 2011 | 14:55
Miller Brands has expanded its craft beer portfolio by making St Stefanus Belgian abbey beer available to the UK market as part of a distribution agreement with the Van Steenberge brewery and the Sint Stefanus monastery...
Posted: 30 November 2011 | 11:26
Heineken has appointed Jacco van der Linden as marketing director for its UK beer and cider brand business. He will take up his new role in mid-January, reporting to UK managing director Stefan Orlowski , and assuming full marketing responsibility for Heineken's portfolio of main and speciality brands.
Posted: 30 November 2011 | 11:21
Enterprise Inns has won a High Court dispute against the operator of one of its London pubs, the Bedford in Balham, over the use of Brulines flow-monitoring equipment. Onifas, a company run by Fair Pint founder Karl Harrison, entered the dispute with Enterprise in March 2010.
Posted: 28 November 2011 | 12:42
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