Warwickshire-based Purity Brewing Co has reported a positive year of growth for the financial year to September 2012. The brewery’s star is shining brightly as it notes the highlights of the past year: • Sales turnover grew by 23% from £2.6-million in 2010-11 to £3.2-million in 2011-12 • Five new people were welcomed to the […]
A unique partnership between a brewery and an international wildlife charity is launched on the shoreline of Scotland’s Moray Firth today (Monday Feb 11). A new beer created in support of Whale and Dolphin Conservation (WDC) means that for every pint drunk, cash will be donated to help conserve and promote the work of the […]
A Cornish ale has reached the number one spot for the best loved beer in the UK, according to Cask Marque. Heligan Honey, brewed by Skinners, has been named top British beer by Cask Marque’s CaskFinder app users, who give beers a % rating as and when they taste them in UK pubs, with rankings […]
Hobsons Brewery has said a farewell to its special charity beer for 2012 “Old Prickly” as it goes into hibernation. The ‘snuffly hedge grog’ has been a phenomenal success with over £2500 raised for the charity. Shropshire brewer Hobsons started brewing the special beer in March 2012 for the British Hedgehog Preservation Society (BHPS) as […]
Arts Alive and Flicks in the Sticks programme live professional events and big screen films all over Shropshire and Herefordshire. Last year over 42,000 people enjoyed over 700 films and over 100 live performances in 90 local community venues, all hosted by local people. Wye Valley Brewery has produced brand new beer mats in partnership […]
At Leeds’ oldest real ale house, Whitelock’s, Yorkshire’s multi-award winning Ilkley Brewery last night (Wednesday 6 February) launched The Mayan, the latest beer in its Origins range. Taking inspiration from an ancient Mayan recipe, this 5.3% chocolate Chipotle stout is velvety smooth and bittersweet with subtle smoky tones. Created in collaboration with food and drink […]
A Dartmoor farmer is helping Dartmoor Brewery boost the provenance of its Dartmoor IPA, one of the Brewery’s most popular beers. Cereal farmer, Tim Cox is supplying the Princetown based brewery with the first ever malting barley grown in the National Park, and in so doing, improving the Brewery’s green credentials by reducing its beer […]
A former sixties Chelsea football legend is celebrating after 20 years running the same Everards pub – with plans to go into extra time with a few more years behind the bar. Bert Murray, a winger who made 160 appearances for Chelsea in the early 1960s, has hit another long service milestone by clocking up […]
View film: www.beerandpub.com/filmpreview A new film highlighting the importance of a beer tax freeze in the March Budget was released by the British Beer & Pub Association today. The film ‘The Beer Story – Calling Time on Duty’ highlights the vital role the brewing and pub industry plays in the economic and social life of […]
Corvus, the new 30 litre keg stout from brewers Wadworth in Devizes, Wiltshire, came out on top in recent research which included a blind tasting, with 65% of drinkers choosing Corvus over Guinness. The independent research was carried out by the Oxford School of Hospitality Management which is the No 1 in Europe for Hospitality […]