Cornish coast brewhotel splashes out on casks to make its ale go further
By: JimOldfield
July 1st, 2012
Cornwall’s award-winning Driftwood Spars hotel-brewery has spent £9,000 on over 100 new casks, to allow it to target new sales beyond the county. Such has been the Spars’ success that the St Agnes hotel now brews 11 different ales – including Alfie’s Revenge, which won Best Winter Beer at the National Winter Ales Festival 2012. Read the full post…
Germany thrash England in a Euro 2012 game of two halves
By: JimOldfield
June 26th, 2012
Stretching credibility beyond even the girth of Chancellor George Osborne’s cummerbund, the British Beer and Pub Association has produced a video… to celebrate England getting to the FINAL of Euro 2012! The action takes place around the bar of the Dog & Duck, where our boys taken on the Germans. And there’s bad news as Read the full post…
Brewers head off more Government red tape over ‘beer tax avoidance’
By: JimOldfield
June 5th, 2012
The British Beer & Pub Association has issued a 10-point plan to tackle beer duty fraud – to try to head off the Government which is threatening yet more red tape for the brewing industry. The All Party Parliamentary Beer Group is embroiled in conducting an inquiry into the issue – with the threat of Read the full post…
Tourist information now on draught in Peak District pubs!
By: JimOldfield
June 4th, 2012
Pubs in a top National Park are being turned into mini tourist information centres, in an innovative new initiative between tourism bosses and the British Beer & Pub Association (BBPA). So far, some eight pubs in Derbyshire’s Peak District have agreed to act as Visitor Information Points in a pilot scheme between the BBPA and Read the full post…
Scots set to slash drink-drive limit
By: JimOldfield
June 4th, 2012
Scotland is set to almost HALF its drink-drive alcohol limit in a move to align itself with continental Europe. The lowering of the limit from 80milligrams of alcohol per 100ml of blood to 50mg will mean drivers will be able to have just one pint of normal-strength beer or a small glass of wine to Read the full post…
Remember the days when a pint cost you 9d!?
By: JimOldfield
June 2nd, 2012
Your weekly wage put a kingly £7.50 in your hand, a pint of real beer (at it was all real) cost 9d – and whether you drunk it in the public bar or the carpeted saloon bar denoted your social class… spare a thought for how it was when the Queen came to the throne. Read the full post…
And the winners are…
By: JimOldfield
May 28th, 2012
It’s that time of season again, when the pub and brewery awards winners come flooding in from CAMRA – and here is a clutch of success stories that have caught Hand-Pumped’s eye. Kelso’s Cobbles Inn won praise in Parliament after taking the title of CAMRA Borders Pub of the Year! The pub was hailed in Read the full post…
Swap Jubilee extended opening hours says pub body
By: JimOldfield
May 28th, 2012
The British Beer and Pub Association is calling for the Government to sanction extended opening hours on next year’s special double Bank Holiday – to give the Queen “the massive national thank you she so richly deserves” on her Diamond Jubilee in June. The BBPA wants later opening on the Sunday and Monday of the Read the full post…
Barflies know best as drinkers’ pub wins out again!
By: JimOldfield
May 22nd, 2012
A pub whose customers took it over on the brink of closure has scooped its local CAMRA Pub of the Year award for the third time in four years. The Hope, in Carshalton, Surrey, was saved by its drinkers in 2010. Since then it has gone from strength to strength – being repeatedly crowned the Read the full post…
BBPA swaps chairmen and adds pub muscle
By: JimOldfield
May 22nd, 2012
By Jim Oldfield May 22 2012 The British Beer & Pub Association (BPPA) has shown shades of Heathrow over the past couple of weeks, with a rush of arrivals and departures at the top. Flying OUT is Molson Coors chief exec, Mark Hunter, who has stepped down as BBPA chairman following his appointment by Read the full post…
