JD Wetherspoon has secured a licence for its first pub on a motorway services, and says it hopes it will be the “first of many”. http://www.morningadvertiser.co.uk/Company-City-News/JD-Wetherspoon-secures-first-pub-at-motorway-services
An Enterprise Inns tied tenant wants pubs to stop buying draught beer from pubcos for one day a month. http://www.morningadvertiser.co.uk/General-News/Enterprise-licensee-calls-for-pubco-draught-beer-boycott
SIBA National (Trade Association) emails will be down for maintenance from 16:00 today This includes Beer Competitions Charlie Gorham Julian Grocock Lisa Hoffin Membership Nick Stafford Sara Knox Secretariat Stephen Holt All trustees and secretaries
SIBA MEMBERS ONLY Start: 18:30 To be held at Everard Brewery, Castle Acres, Everard Way, Narborough, Leicestershire LE19 1UT
The new Visitors Centre at Robinsons Brewery in Stockport has received VisitEngland accreditation, with glowing testimony from the organisation’s assessors. The Visitors Centre, which has been open for just two months, has been recognised as a Quality Assured Visitor Attraction. The assessor wrote: “Robinsons Brewery Visitors Centre and brewery tour offered an excellent overall visitor […]
A CRAVEN Arms Brewery has won a top award for its beer. The Wood Brewery in beat off strong competition at the prestigious Heart of England fine foods (HEFF) Diamond Awards to take home the award for best alcoholic drink. It was the sixth annual Diamond Awards from HEFF, which celebrates the best of local […]
One of the youngest independent brewers in the South West has become only the second person in Cornwall to qualify as a beer sommelier. Twenty six year old Joe Thomson, from Launceston, has passed a prestigious London-based course to become one of an elite band of just 36 beer sommeliers worldwide. Designed to provide accredited […]
Drinks bodies have given a mixed response to the latest official figures on alcohol consumption which reveal the majority of people are drinking responsibility but show a rise in alcohol related deaths. http://www.morningadvertiser.co.uk/General-News/Majority-of-people-drinking-responsibly-reveal-latest-Government-statistics
SIBA MEMBERS ONLY Venue: Charters Bar, Town Bridge, Peterborough, PE1 1FP http://www.oakagroup.com/charters/contacts.asp Time: 12:00
Increasingly small businesses are using social media to promote and entertain their customers. One such business is D’Acqua restaurant in Sunderland who is making short films which are then posted on youtube. Maxim Brewery and its famous Double Maxim Brown ale has regularly featured as both an accompaniment and ingredient in many a fine dish […]