The Beer Academy is seeing a 20% year-on-year uplift in bookings onto its range of beer appreciation courses, fuelled by a huge growth of interest in all aspects of beer and beer styles. The organisation has now reviewed and reworked its programmes in order to offer a more structured training ladder, taking delegates from its Foundation course, through the […]
Hat trick for Deschutes Brewery Brewers and cider makers from all over the world gathered at London’s Guildhall on 29 April for the unveiling of the Championship winners in the International Brewing and Cider Awards 2015. Trophies were awarded to nine beers and one cider, with US brewer Deschutes scoring a ‘hat trick’ with three […]
Moorhouse’s, Lancashire’s leading independent brewery, has pledged ongoing backing to the county’s annual Twenty20 Cricket Competition with a renewed sponsorship deal. The second Moorhouse’s Brewery Lancashire Cricket League 20/20 Competition will ensure the famous ‘Pendle Witches’ brands enjoy excellent exposure in the acclaimed Burnley brewer’s 150th anniversary year. It will run for another three years […]
The Beer Academy, the leading global beer education body, is seeing a 20% year-on-year uplift in bookings onto its range of beer appreciation courses, fuelled by a huge growth of interest in all aspects of beer and beer styles. At the same time, the Beer Academy has reviewed and reworked its programmes in order to […]
Members of the Campaign for Real Ale have decided to stop criticising drinkers for choosing different types of beer and have instead pledged to get behind the entire category. Camra was formed in the 1970s to fight back against “bland, processed, mass-produced beers” and the homogenisation of the category by big brewers. But at a […]
Silver sponsor of SIBA and equipment supplier, Vigo Ltd, has announced its launch into canning lines. Vigo revealed at BEER-X that it is UK agent for US canning equipment innovators, American Beer Equipment, who developed the LinCan™ canning line. Sales of craft beer in cans are growing so fast in the US (up 89% […]
Are you a British brewer? Then we want to hear from you! We’ve got a category dedicated to bottled IPAs, and if you use British ingredients, are passionate about provenance and think you’ve got an award-winning beer on your hands, enter our awards right away! To enter the awards, click here! After an incredibly successful […]
The fact that Oakham Ales trophy cabinet is bursting at the seams has led to two recent internal promotions to the Brewery team. Stewart Poulter (aged 37), becomes Assistant Brewer and Ed Sharman (aged 26) is promoted to Trainee Brewer. Stewart has been working with Oakham Ales for the past eleven years and now supports […]
A collaboration between Thornbridge Brewery and Forum Cafe Bars LTD will have you reaching for your (half) pint glass this spring. Sheffield: The ‘Half Pint Marathon’ is a month long celebration of some of Sheffield’s best independent, beer venues, dreamt up by the people behind two of the city’s most popular companies to raise […]
UK craft brewer Freedom Brewery is to triple its capacity in a GBP1.5m (US$2.2m) expansion project. The Staffordshire-based company will instal new fermentation and maturation tanks as well as a brew house for triple-filtering beer. It said the expansion is in response to a growing global craft beer scene. “We are being requested in more […]