With the weather set fair and a great deal of interest in this fantastic free open day at The Chiltern Brewery, many people turned up on Saturday 20th July to see behind the scenes of the working micro brewery and find out more about traditional brewing techniques, including the crucial role of the best quality […]
Hollywood star Kate Beckinsale and a glittering array of A-listers completed a Nottinghamshire day of celebration of the life of her father, Richard, with a private party and lunch at Beeston’s Victoria Hotel. The meal, washed down with pints of ‘Richard Beckinsale’, the current Castle Rock Nottinghamian Celebration Ale, followed a morning in Chilwell where […]
The Derby Brewing Company is proud and delighted to announce securing it’s forth premises, the Kedleston Hotel, Quarndon, situated on the famous Kedleston Estate. The Kedleston Hotel is a grade II * listed building, work began on the site in 1761, commissioned by Sir Nathan Curzon Bart for the estate, the build was famously overseen […]
Purity Brewing Co has appointed former Heineken executive Darryl Hinksman as its new Head of Brand. The role includes all marketing for Purity’s portfolio of beers, as well as responsibility for driving the Warwickshire brewery’s off-trade sales, which is particularly important as Purity has ambitions to grow its national distribution. The appointment of Darryl comes […]
ARKELL’S Brewery will be celebrating its 170th year of brewing with a special open day and beer festival. Visitors to the brewery, in Kingsdown, on September 7 will have the chance to tour one of the very few remaining working Victorian breweries in the world, and taste beers from across the UK. … Read the […]
Tring Brewery has launched a new look for its beers, using applied colour psychology to appeal to beer drinkers. It is believed that Tring is the first brewery in the UK to use applied colour psychology, and to recognise the importance of colour in influencing emotion, mood and behaviour. The brewery has rebranded, starting with […]
Keith Bott, chairman of the Society of Independent Brewers (SIBA), said, “SIBA, along with other industry partners, argued that duty stamps would burden the brewing industry with additional red tape, so we applaud the government for taking the pragmatic rather than bureaucratic approach. “We are especially grateful to the All-Party Parliamentary Beer Group, headed by […]
The Government has confirmed that it will not press ahead with introducing a minimum unit price for alcohol, although it promised some action on cheap deals and said it plans to take “tougher action” on irresponsible pubs and clubs. http://www.morningadvertiser.co.uk/General-News/Gov-t-shelves-minimum-pricing-plans-to-take-tougher-action-on-irresponsible-pubs
Keith Bott, chairman of the Society of Independent Brewers (SIBA), said, “We welcome the government’s announcement that it has decided not to introduce minimum unit pricing at this time. “This is the approach advocated by SIBA in its submission to the government’s consultation on Alcohol Policy. We felt, as the government clearly feels, that there […]
THERE is a god and he wears a white coat and hangs around in a laboratory. Well, what else could we think after reports that scientists in the UK have been given a $A1.6 million government grant to develop a stronger, cheaper beer. Britain’s Daily Telegraph reports that scientists hope to concoct a “designer” genome […]