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Beer Group sides with BBPA against “catastrophic” beer stamps
By: JimOldfield
July 26th, 2012
The All-Party Parliamentary Beer Group has backed the British Beer and Pub Association’s stance against the introduction of beer tax stamps – which the BBPA warns could cause an industry catastrophe. The beer group has been conducting an independent inquiry into duty fraud – with the tax stamps proposed as one of the measures to Read the full post…
Kids’ charity benefits from huge North-East ale festival
By: JimOldfield
July 24th, 2012
One of the North-East’s biggest beer festivals is giving 10 per cent of its take to a children’s charity this year. The sixth Tynemouth Beer Festival takes place from September 13-15 – and its organisers have chosen the Children’s Foundation to benefit from it. “The foundation supports medical research into childhood illnesses and conditions and Read the full post…
Gill could help you run a Robbies pub!
By: JimOldfield
July 24th, 2012
If you’re looking to run a pub for Cheshire family brewer Robinsons, Gill Dennett should be your first call! Gill has joined the brewery as Business Opportunities Development Manager, taking over from John Lavin, who retired recently. She is the first point of contact for all prospective tenants wishing to invest in a tenancy with Read the full post…
Meet Britain’s first lady know-it-ales!
By: JimOldfield
July 22nd, 2012
It’s official… Britain has just unveiled its first two women real ale know-it-alls! Sophie Atherton and Annabel Smith have become the country’s first accredited female Beer Sommeliers, after passing an exacting exam under the watchful eye of Beer Academy Chief Examiner, Dr George Philliskirk. The Beer Sommelier qualification – launched by the academy just six Read the full post…
British ales invade the Falklands
By: JimOldfield
July 22nd, 2012
Real ale fan Jeff Halliday has set up the world’s most remote micro-brewery, at his home… in the Falklands! Fifth-generation islander Jeff got a taste for real beer when he worked in the UK – and went home with the ambition of founding his own brewery. He returned to this country to complete two brewing Read the full post…
British ales invade the Falklands
By: JimOldfield
July 22nd, 2012
By Hand-pumped staff July 22 2012 Real ale fan Jeff Halliday has set up the world’s most remote micro-brewery, at his home… in the Falklands! Fifth-generation islander Jeff got a taste for real beer when he worked in the UK – and went home with the ambition of founding his own brewery. He returned Read the full post…
They’re hop-ping across the pond… the Yanks are coming in force!
By: JimOldfield
July 19th, 2012
Just a handful of decades ago, Britain’s real ale drinkers were most definitely chasing the brewers, as lovers of proper beer tried desperately to avoid the swimming-pool vats of tasteless ‘ale’ turned out by a handful of mass producers. But the real ale boom has produced an astonishing turnaround – as the mushrooming numbers of Read the full post…
BrewDog opts for German efficiency at its new brewery
By: JimOldfield
July 17th, 2012
BrewDog has chosen German specialists Esau & Hueber to design and install the cold process area of its new brewery, currently being built near Ellon in Aberdeenshire. BrewDog brewing director Martin Dickie said: We chose Esau & Hueber as the supplier of the new cold process area package, as they fully understood our requirements and Read the full post…
Hand-Pumped emerges victorious from international ‘Dragons Den’
By: JimOldfield
July 17th, 2012
It’s official: a “Dragon’s Den” of media experts has agreed on what you already know… Your Hand-Pumped website has been judged to be a winning digital venture – by a university and business project spanning three continents! This site, which only launched in March, has been picked as one of just six businesses to receive Read the full post…
Rare ales in the Beer and Now… as new online bottle-hunter is launched
By: JimOldfield
July 17th, 2012
Three Manchester-based entrepreneurs have launched what they say is UK’s first “niche specialist online world-beers store”. Led by CEO and founding partner Andy Etches, the trio of real ale lovers said they joined forces after spotting “a distinct lack of online retailers” selling their favourite beers. After years of research into how they could source Read the full post…
