Knobworth unveiled
By: JimOldfield
May 16th, 2012
Forget Knebworth – there’s only one thing you can call your music and ale festival if you want to raise cash for testicular and prostate cancer… Enter the new KNOBWORTH Festival – which has just taken place at a country pub in Northamptonshire! The two-day event was hosted by The Angel Inn at Yarwell, near Read the full post…
The Rolls Royce of working men’s clubs!
By: JimOldfield
May 15th, 2012
The Rolls Royce Leisure Club in Barnoldswick, Lancs, has won a pair of awards for the quality of its beer! It was awarded Cask Marque accreditation for serving the perfect pint of cask-conditioned ale, and Carlsberg UK’s coveted Gold Award which rewards licensees for high-product standards.
Government taxes put skids under their efforts, beer bosses warn
By: JimOldfield
May 13th, 2012
The boss of Britain’s biggest pub chain has slammed the rising cost of beer, saying it is creating a “serious” north-south divide, with new pubs only opening in city centres and the affluent south. Wetherspoon chairman Tim Martin (pictured) spoke out as CAMRA revealed that 12 pubs a week are being shut across Britain as Read the full post…
Tykes invited to talk out about Yorkshire’s best pub
By: JimOldfield
May 8th, 2012
Ale-loving Yorkshire folk are being invited to nominate their favourite pub in one of the biggest competitions ever… to find the county’s most popular local. The contest has been organised by Welcome to Yorkshire, whose chief executive Gary Verity said: “We want everyone to have their say and tell us about the local they love. Read the full post…
High hops for Italian vineyard owner’s son paid to drink English ale!
By: JimOldfield
May 3rd, 2012
A Sardinian vineyard owner’s son has picked the best job in Britain – being PAID to spend time in country pubs! In a move that rivals editing Hand-Pumped (!) Dr Ignazio Cabras has won a £7,700 grant to spend 18 months studying the British pub in a bid to save it from extinction. The 33-year-old Read the full post…
Beer tax takes its toll in 57-million-pint beer sales plunge
By: JimOldfield
April 29th, 2012
Chancellor George Osborne has been blamed for a frightening 57 MILLION pint dip in pub sales over the past quarter, after he refused to freeze the “beer escalator” tax. The British Beer & Pub Association (BBPA) slammed Mr Osborne’s policies, after the Pub association’s quarterly Beer Barometer reported a six per cent drop over the Read the full post…
Raising the bar on the perfect pint
By: JimOldfield
April 28th, 2012
Next time your pint of cask ale looks or tastes below-par – don’t immediately blame the brewer. There are plenty of reasons why pints can lose quality – with many problems occurring at the bar. Here Ruth Evans, chief executive of the Brewing, Food & Beverage Industry Suppliers Association (BFBi), outlines some of the biggest Read the full post…
Hail the micro-pub as real ale houses return to the UK
By: JimOldfield
April 17th, 2012
After the revolution of the micro-brewery comes… the micro-pub! And it’s already spreading like wildfire across southern England – as our drinking hostelries return to their one-arm-bandit-and-TV-free days of yore. No frills – just seats, tables, beer and bog! That’s Martyn’s prototype micro-pub, the Butchers Arms.After the revolution of the micro-brewery comes… the micro-pub! It Read the full post…
Amazing Grace makes comeback at cricket pub…
By: JimOldfield
April 5th, 2012
Enthusiasts are trying to save a pub garden’s CRICKET nets from disappearing into oblivion. The nets, at Bristol’s Old England pub, are one of only two in the country housed in a beer garden, and they were once graced by Gloucestershire and England legend WG Grace himself. Latterly they have suffered years of neglect, but Read the full post…
Punch-drunk giant turns to grub
By: JimOldfield
April 5th, 2012
Troubled pub giant Punch Taverns is looking to food to save it, after a 20 per cent plunge in half-year profits to £33m. It aims to increase pub grub from 23-35 per cent of its sales, in addition to selling off 492 outlets.
