Bundobust is booming!
By: JimOldfield
June 30th, 2016
Bundobust – the unique Yorskhire Indian street food and craft beer restaurant – is hopping across to the Red Rose side of the Pennines with the opening of its second eatery, in Manchester’s Piccadilly Gardens, this autumn. The award-winning concept opened its doors in Leeds in 2014, after bringing together two of West Yorkshire’s award-winning Read the full post…
No Brexit blues at soaraway Greene King
By: JimOldfield
June 30th, 2016
Brewer Greene King has shrugged off Brexit concerns, as it passed the £2 billion revenue mark in its full-year results. Greene King added the Scottish Spirit Pub Company to its portfolio at a cost of some £774m in the past year – and the brewers refused to bend to the worries of Brexit and a Read the full post…
‘Cut taxes and red tape to help industry’ BBPA boss asks Government
By: JimOldfield
June 27th, 2016
The boss of the British Beer and Pub Association is singing the praises of the country’s pubs, for creating a vibrant workplace for young people. But BBPA Chief Executive Brigid Simmonds called on the Government to do its bit to help the growth industry, with less red tape and lower taxes to help our publicans. Read the full post…
CAMRA unveils Britain’s best-looking boozers at Pub Design Awards
By: JimOldfield
November 8th, 2012
Britain’s best looking pubs have been unveiled this week, as CAMRA picks its champions for the annual National Pub Design Awards. A judging team of architects, historians and pub campaigners have scoured the UK for the hostelries with the best “vision, imagination and a level of restraint in their design”, and have returned with four Read the full post…
Special Brrrrrrew for Antarctic explorers!
By: JimOldfield
October 30th, 2012
Thirsty British scientists at the South Pole are to get their Christmas wish with an ice-cold in Antarctica – after brewers at their Southampton local invented a special brrrrrrrrew! The Dancing Man brewery at the Platform Tavern pub is playing Santa to a team from the British Antarctic Survey and Southampton-based National Oceanography Centre – Read the full post…
Make it snappy for pub photo contest
By: JimOldfield
October 30th, 2012
Pub photographers need to get snappy… as a competition deadline for capturing a slice of “pub-life” expires tomorrow! Saltaire Brewery’s “Pride in Pub Life” competition is looking for a picture which best captures daily life in pubs and bars. The best entries will be displayed in an exhibition, and the winner will also receive £250 Read the full post…
The sex shop they’re all hopping into… for a pint!
By: JimOldfield
October 23rd, 2012
Swindon has launched its newest pub – built from scratch in a former sex shop! And The Hop Inn – billed as “a pub for grown-ups” – has already gotten into bed with the real ale lovers of the Wiltshire town by dragging in drinkers. Owners Jason Putt and his wife Karen Griesel are not Read the full post…
GET SET – IT’S B-DAY AT LAST!
By: JimOldfield
October 23rd, 2012
People-power has won out – with MPs finally granting a full Parliamentary debate on the Government’s controversial “beer duty escalator”. The 100,000-plus e-petition has helped win a three-hour debate a week today (Thursday, November 1) with a motion that will call on the Government to review the hated tax policy. And the brewers’ society, SIBA, Read the full post…
New plunge in real ale sales despite summer of sport
By: JimOldfield
October 23rd, 2012
Britons drank 117m fewer pints of beer between July and September this year… despite a sporting backdrop that included the European footy finals and the London Olympic Games. BodyAnd the British Beer and Pub Association (BBPA) has pinned the latest, 5.6 per cent, plunge firmly on the door of 11, Downing Street. The BBPA says Read the full post…
Cask men trash big brewers in BBPA awards
By: JimOldfield
October 18th, 2012
Real ale champions ruled at the first ever British Beer and Pub Association industry awards, as cask brewers picked up all four new gongs. Brewing companies Liberation Group, Daniel Thwaites and Joseph Holt each clinched top spot in the three awards categories at the BBPA’s annual dinner last night (October 17). And Wychwood Brewery’s Chris Read the full post…
