Tory forces Beer Escalator debate
By: JimOldfield
July 1st, 2012
The most serious threat to Britain’s brewery and pub trade finally gets an airing tomorrow (Monday) – when the hated ale tax, the Beer Escalator, is debated in Parliament. But if the good news is that the scandalous tax rises are finally out in the open, the bad is that the MPs WON’T get a Read the full post…
Ale, food and cocktail trails come to Huddersfield fest
By: JimOldfield
July 1st, 2012
Not one, but THREE, food and drink trails are being launched in West Yorkshire, to celebrate the Huddersfield Food and Drink Festival in August. Real ale and local grub will be joined by six venues serving cocktails, when a cocktail trail starts on July 21. James Bond types will be able to collect a stamp Read the full post…
CAMRA Beer Olympics 2012… the winners!
By: JimOldfield
June 27th, 2012
The Trawlerboys of Lowestoft’s Green Jack Brewery netted silver at the CAMRA Beer Olympics, with their best bitter coming in just behind Coniston’s No 9 Barley Wine, as the runner-up in the Champion Beer of Britain (CBOB) contest this afternoon. Trawlerboys is a 4.6 per cent ale, described as “a rich, malty and fruity copper-coloured Read the full post…
The shipwrecked ale that could change the way we drink – and eat!
By: JimOldfield
June 24th, 2012
No-one would have thought that bottles of ale – discovered by divers in a 170-year-old ship, wrecked off the coast of Finland – would be more than small beer… But these toppled tipples are among the oldest beer in the world – and they could have huge implications in determining the future taste, health properties Read the full post…
Hardknott tie-up with Fullers produces an English experiment!
By: JimOldfield
June 24th, 2012
A Cumbrian brewer has joined forces with Fullers to create a new, all-English 6 per cent IPA, fittingly entitled The English Experiment. Hardknott Brewery boss Dave Bailey teamed up with Fullers director John Keeling after the pair met at a British Guild of Beer Writers event. The result is a new beer which uses four Read the full post…
Ansells axe makes mild men bitter
By: JimOldfield
June 24th, 2012
Midlands mild fans have launched a furious protest after giant brewer Carlsberg decided to axe the famous Ansells Mild, after 131 years of tastebud-tickling. While a small keg production run is still in existence, mainly for the social club trade, Wolverhampton-based Marston’s – which makes the ale for Carlsberg – has halted cask production. Carlsberg Read the full post…
Now York and Norwich glug it out in scrap to be UK’s Ale City
By: JimOldfield
June 19th, 2012
It was always on the cards… but York and Norwich are set to glug it out as the key contenders in the bid to be the UK Ale Capital. York is planning to run a huge beer census on June 30 – aiming to prove that it boasts more different ales than any other city Read the full post…
Twenty ales in battle for national supermarket prize
By: JimOldfield
June 12th, 2012
Twenty ales are battling it out to win six-months of guaranteed supermarket sales, after Sainsbury’s announced its regional finalists in its Great Beer Hunt 2012 competition. More than a hundred beers, in five UK regions, were pitched into the effort to win a six-month national listing with the supermarket chain. They were evaluated by selected Read the full post…
Green-King celebrate beer-trothal with their very own ale!
By: JimOldfield
June 10th, 2012
When Green-King announced a merger, a top brewer stepped in with a celebratory ale… And bride and groom Louise King and Jamie Green found themselves toasting their wedding day with their OWN hand-made ale from the national giant which shares their new name! Greene King, the brewer, supplied 80 special bottles of beer to Green-King Read the full post…
Brewers benefit as sun, sport and celebrations bring beer bonanza
By: JimOldfield
June 7th, 2012
British brewers should gear up for a 330 MILLION pint booze bonanza if the sun continues to shine this summer! That’s the number of EXTRA beers that will be sold over a summer of sport and Jubilee fun, according to figures from Opinium Research. Opinium says its research shows that 27 per cent of Britons Read the full post…
