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Campden offers brewing microbiology course
By: JimOldfield
September 23rd, 2012
A one-day course, to update brewing microbiologists with the latest developments in the field, is being held at Campden BRI’s Nutfield labs on October 9. Among the subjects being presented by Campden’s brewery consultants will be classification of undesirable microorganisms within the brewery; good microbiological practice and the interpretation of results; advanced methods of detection Read the full post…
All change at top maltsters as Gordon returns to States
By: JimOldfield
September 23rd, 2012
Crisp Maltings has appointed Steve Le Poidevin as its brewing sales director, succeeding Gordon Tilley, who has left the group to become Charles Faram’s CEO in the USA and Canada. Mr Tilley took up his new post on September 1 and Mr Le Poidevin starts in his new role on October 1. Crisp managing director Read the full post…
Let’s escalate the beer duty battle rto the front doors of Westminster!
By: JimOldfield
September 21st, 2012
Beer drinkers from across the nation are set to descend on London for a mass lobby of Parliament – to demand the restoration of a fair price for their pint! Within hours of the e-petition against beer duty hitting the 100,000 target, CAMRA announced its intention to storm Westminster… with hundreds of real ale lovers Read the full post…
Beer tax petition smashes past 100,000-name mark
By: JimOldfield
September 20th, 2012
Hand-Pumped EXCLUSIVE The e-petition calling on the Government to scrap the hated beer tax escalator hit the 100,000-signature mark this morning. The target was reached at 10.25am today (Thursday) and Hand-Pumped was the first to carry the story – posted within half a minute of the barrier being broken! But the e-petition achievement should NOT Read the full post…
Spitfire aces Jon and Linda down another compo kill!
By: JimOldfield
September 18th, 2012
When it comes to winning Spitfire Ale competitions, no Fokkers come closer than pub owners Jonathan and Linda Quinn! The owners of Ilfracombe’s oldest pub have won a year’s supply of the ale, from Britain’s oldest brewery… their SECOND Spitfire kill in two years! The couple’s George and Dragon pub in the Devon town – Read the full post…
Danielle’s supper club hosts an ale fe-a-stival!
By: JimOldfield
September 17th, 2012
Beer-matching dinners are to be launched in Bristol, after the local Bishopston Supper Club joined forces with the Bristol Beer Factory. The factory’s head brewer, Chris Kay, has been called in to co-host the weekend ale fe-a-st, on September 28-29. The club was begun by Bristolian Danielle Coombs, who believes that food is a great Read the full post…
New book charts rise of brewing institute
By: JimOldfield
September 17th, 2012
When a handful of young scientists got together in a disreputable part of London in 1886, to discuss their shared interest in the science behind brewing, the Institute of Brewing and Distilling was born. The IBD went on to become the leading organisation of its type in the world, with over 4,000 members and it Read the full post…
British beer tax gap grows ever wider on the Beer Escalator to ruin
By: JimOldfield
September 16th, 2012
The tax gap between what British beer drinkers have to pay for their pint, compared to their European neighbours, has become even wider, the British Beer & Pub Association (BBPA) chief, Brigid Simmonds has warned. As the association published its latest “statistics bible for the beer and pub industry”, the Statistical Handbook 2012, chief executive Read the full post…
New GBG hails UK’s biggest brewers boom in 70 years!
By: JimOldfield
September 13th, 2012
The 40th edition of CAMRA’s drinkers’ bible, the Good Beer Guide is out today – celebrating the highest number of breweries in operation across the country for 70 years! The guide numbers a truly astonishing 1,009 UK breweries – 158 of which opened over the past year to give the greatest rate of opening over Read the full post…
Brewery name clash ends in Anarchy!
By: JimOldfield
September 11th, 2012
A northern brewery says it has been forced to change its name, to avoid a legal row with an established Midlands brewer. Northumberland’s Brew Star brewery has renamed itself the Anarchy Brew Co – after its highly successful premium lager, Anarchy. The Morpeth micro-brewery was challenged by Grantham’s Brewsters Brewing Company, which felt the Brew Read the full post…
