After over a year of local tasting panels and regional heats leading up to the finals, the Campaign for Real Ale, CAMRA, has announced that Tiny Rebel’s Cwtch has been crowned the Best Beer in Britain at the Great British Beer Festival, Olympia, London. The Newport brewed real ale was named the Supreme Champion over a host of other finalists in ten different beer categories … [Read more...]
Dark Star Brewery provides reasons to be cheerful
Ahead of hosting ‘The Blockheads at the Brewery’, a concert to raise funds for the Dark Star Foundation, the legendary Blockheads joined the Sussex brewers to brew a special beer to mark the event. ‘Blockhead’ as it will be known, is a play on the brewer’s most popular beer, Hophead, and was created by the band and the brewers, after what Dark Star director, James … [Read more...]
Half pint glass now most popular
New research released to coincide with Britain’s biggest beer festival, the Great British Beer Festival in London, shows the half pint glass is now the most popular way to drink beer. The survey of 2,000 people, commissioned by the Campaign for Real Ale (CAMRA) and undertaken by independent research company YouGov, shows that 34% of drinkers opt for a half pint glass when … [Read more...]
‘Knowledgeable, motivated bar staff’ essential to tap into UK beer boom
As brewers and beer drinkers converge at Olympia for the Great British Beer Festival, the Cask Matters group is urging everyone involved in serving cask beer in pubs and bars to sign up for its Cask Beer Uncovered e-learning programme. Some 60,000 drinkers are expected to visit GBBF, an indication of the nation’s growing thirst for cask beer. For any licensee wanting to … [Read more...]
Bulldog re-names as The Coaching Inn Group
Market town coaching inns specialist the Bulldog Hotel Group is setting the seal on its sector leadership ambitions by rebranding as The Coaching Inn Group. The Boston-headquartered company, which has grown from two to eight sites since launching in 2007 and is investing £20 million in a continued expansion programme across the UK, will become The Coaching Inn Group on 1 … [Read more...]