Last month, the Chancellor George Osborne cut the price of a pint of beer by 1p in a bid to support our British pubs. But how much difference will this actually make to Britain’s brewing and pub businesses? BBC Breakfast visit one of Britain’s longest serving family brewers – Robinsons to find out. The planned […]
East Yorkshire brewery Great Newsome are set to promote this year’s Hull Beer and Cider Festival to the whole of the UK by sponsoring a group of the country’s top tweeters to live tweet from the event. Twitter users from as far away as London, Sunderland, Leeds and Scarborough will be joining social networkers from […]
A West Midlands brewery is celebrating its second anniversary – with the aid of a little horse-power. Dotty the driving pony has become a regular attraction around the town since she started weekly beer deliveries from Craddock’s Brewery at the Duke William in Stourbridge town centre to the Plough and Harrow in Worcester Street. Both […]
Two of Wadworth’s Licensed Business Development Managers, Norman Taylor and Andrew Spriggs, have recently been awarded a nationally recognised qualification from the BIIAB (British Institute of Innkeepers Award Body). The Level 4 Certificate in Multiple Licensed Premises Management represents a significant achievement involving months of hard work and dedication. The certificate is the first and […]
Wadworth Trade Quality Brewer Adrian Wood is retiring after 44 years in the brewing industry. He has been at Wadworth for the last 61/2 of those years, working with Publicans to ensure excellent storage and delivery of cask ales. The brewing world that Adrian leaves has changed in character since he first joined it, and […]
INEPENDENT brewers and beer lovers have raised more than £700 for St Luke’s Hospice. The Society of Independent Brewers’ SIBA BeerX Festival came to Sheffield for the first time in March and chose Sheffield’s only hospice as its charity. Guests were encouraged to make donations to the hospice and also to hand in unused beer […]
Great news for local business Joule’s Brewery, as they are formally welcomed to the ‘Society of Independent Brewers’ SIBA, following a visit by Keith Bott, MD of Titanic Brewery last week. The ‘new’ Joule’s Brewery was completed in 2010 and Steve Nuttall, MD of the Brewery comments “we are delighted that SIBA have accepted our […]
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Keith Greener,Spares and Service Manager from Microdat sadly passed away from pneumonia on 30th March 2013 after battling Leukaemia for several months. Keith joined Microdat in the early 1990’s was a dear friend and colleague. Steve Midgley Microdat Technical Director says “Keith will be sadly missed by everyone not only for his knowledge and skill […]
Boulder, CO • April 10, 2013 – The Brewers Association—the not-for-profit trade group that tabulates production statistics for the U.S. brewing industry—today released its annual lists of the top 50 craft and overall brewing companies in the U.S., based on 2012 beer sales volume. Of the top 50 overall brewing companies, 39 are small and […]