SIBA chairman Keith Bott yesterday posted a ‘message in a barrel’ to the Chancellor on behalf of the association’s 652 members, requesting an end to the unpopular beer duty escalator. The barrel was sited for the day at the House of Commons, enabling MPs to post their own message to the Treasury ahead of Budget. […]
Local beer is offering a lifeline to Britain’s troubled brewing and pub industries, with volume sales up by an estimated 6.8 per cent last year to over 1.4 million barrels, according to the Local Beer Report, published today by the Society of Independent Brewers (SIBA). Over the same period, on-trade beer sales overall declined by […]
Hallidays Accountants LLP are aiming high as they set themselves a target of raising £5,045 for the Seashell Trust, their chosen charity for 2013. The money Hallidays wants to raise will be used to purchase a MOTOmed Therapy Bike for the Peter Harrison Fitness Suite at the Seashell Trust. The specialised exercise bike helps those […]
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 […]
Wye Valley Brewery has recently acquired The Vaga Tavern, in Hereford, bringing its estate to six pubs in total. The Vaga Tavern is a pub with a great heritage as the centre of community activity, however in recent years it had lost some former glory. New owners Wye Valley Brewery together with licensees Ben and […]
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 […]
The West Yorkshire town of Otley is staking its claim as one of Britain’s premier pub places with the launch of an ale trail leaflet that’s set to help further boost to its growing tourism trade. The Historic Otley Ale Trail features a map of the town showing all of its 18 hostelries along with […]
25 years ago Richard Scragg and Helen Teasdale bought the current Springhead Brewery site on Main Street in Laneham from long-term resident, Robin Minnitt. Historically the buildings had been used as the Minnitts family home, a mill, a bakery and a grocery shop. Richard went on to use the main buildings as a mill for […]
Real ale fans have a reason to be ‘merry’ as two new beers with a legendary connection hit the shelves in 75 Lincolnshire Co-operative foodstores. Robin Hood and Maid Marian are both brewed by the Springhead Brewery in Laneham, near Retford. They join the firm’s beers Roaring Meg and The Leveller which are already popular […]