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 […]
By James Wallin, M&C Report, 22-Apr-2015 Punch Taverns has reported a 0.5% rise in like-for-like income in its core estate for the 28 weeks to 7 March 2015 and EBITDA down from £108m for the period last year to £105m this year. http://www.morningadvertiser.co.uk/Operators/Punch-Taverns/Punch-Taverns-half-year-profits
Following unprecedented success in the US, Wild Goose Canning International launched their CanCraft range for the UK & European market at the SIBA BeerX 2015 exhibition recently held in Sheffield, UK. Wild Goose Canning International has expanded their operations to the UK and have today signed a collaboration agreement with MD Engineering Solutions Ltd […]
Rascal London Porter, the latest beer to launch from Inveralmond Brewery’s award winning Inspiration Series, has proved an early hit with beer lovers after scooping Champion Beer at the World’s Biggest Ale Festival, run by JD Wetherspoon – before it has even been officially launched by the Brewery! After winning the Dark Ales Class, Rascal […]