Brewers today welcomed the decision in the Budget to scrap the Beer Duty Escalator and to take 1 pence off the price of a pint. Keith Bott, of Titanic Brewery is among brewers who have led a campaign to scrap the duty which has seen beer taxes hiked by 42 per cent since 2008. The […]
We’re pleased to announce the launch of Birmingham Beer Bash, a brand new festival celebrating great beer and the craft of the brewer, coming to Birmingham on 26th and 27th July 2013. Held at the Bond Company, a former canal side warehouse on Fazeley Street in the resurgent Digbeth area of the city, the event […]
The Chiltern Brewery, Buckinghamshire, has teamed up with innovative design agency, Dirty Design, to create a series of clever, fresh, ground-breaking and industry re-defining pump clips that change existing ideas about this ‘point of sale’ concept. What they have developed is a range of full-scale curved pint glass pump clips in superb visual colour representation […]
Leicestershire brewery Everards has won a national award for the successful management of its 170-strong estate of pubs. The Publican Awards named Everards Brewery ‘Pub Company of the Year 2013’ (tenanted/leased 20 – 199 outlets), in recognition of the company’s flexible approach and comprehensive tenant support package. Considered the most prestigious in the industry, The […]
Craft brewing has had a resurgence across the world during the past few years and is having a fantastic influence on the brewing industry in the UK. With over 1100 breweries now operating, the range of beers styles available has never been greater. Many of the beers brewed in today’s new wave of breweries are […]
Everards pub the Seven Stars has proved a shining success only seven months after re-opening by being named Rugby CAMRA Pub of the Year. The pub claimed the title just months after it first re-opened its doors following a £200,000 refurbishment. The winner’s certificate was handed over by CAMRA representative Steve Durrants at a special […]
Duvel Moortgat has won the top brewer award in the annual Castle Rock Brewery Beer of the Year night held at the Canalhouse pub in Nottingham. Their win, in the 14th year of the competition, is the first to have been awarded to a continental brewer and is the first time the award has gone […]
The generosity of an Oadby licensee has helped lift spirits at Leicester Hospital after he arranged for six televisions to be installed at one of its wards. Phillip Wharton, 61, who runs the Fox Inn in Oadby has paid £1,000 of his own money to buy five of the televisions and organised a raffle which […]
The Chiltern Brewery, the oldest independent brewery in Buckinghamshire and the Chilterns, has won yet another award for one of their beers. The bottled Lord Lieutenant’s Porter has won a bronze medal in the International Brewing Awards held in Burton on Trent. The awards, held on Friday 15th February and known as the ‘Beer Oscars’, […]
At Thornbridge we are keen to encourage aspiring brewers to try and make new and exciting beers. With Brew Team 2013 we gave the opportunity to two teams, one from each of the Universities Real Ale Societies, to come up with some exciting new beer recipes. We assigned each team with one of our brewers […]