For pubs up and down the country, now is the time to start planning for Cask Ale Week, running from 27th September to 6th October. THE GREAT BIG TASTE CHALLENGE The theme, the Great Big Taste Challenge gives plenty of scope to highlight each pub’s cask offer, run promotions and put on events. Chef can recommend cask ales to match each dish on the menu; local CAMRA branch … [Read more...]
Henley Ale Trail flourishes in the sun: would yours?
The weekend’s sunshine delivered a boost to this year’s Henley Ale Trail, with hundreds of customers visiting one of the 10 Brakspear pubs on the route and starting the trail with a pint of Brakspear ale: it’s clearly popular with customers, but surprising that more breweries and towns don’t develop their own Trail? Over 1,000 Ale Trail maps have now been handed out since … [Read more...]
Adnams launches a truly Britt-ish beer
Adnams, the Suffolk brewer, has launched ’Native Britten’, a limited edition beer, to commemorate the centenary of the birth of Suffolk-born composer Benjamin Britten. ‘Native Britten’ is a golden wheat beer with a 4.5% abv. Made solely from ingredients sourced within Suffolk, the beer has been brewed using First Gold hops, local malted barley and wheat and then finished … [Read more...]
Young’s in strong position to grow
Young & Co’s Brewery PLC has reported its preliminary results for the 52 weeks ended 1 April 2013, with Stephen Goodyear, Chief Executive, commenting: “An exceptional year in a number of ways, with one-off events such as the Diamond Jubilee and the Olympic and Paralympic Games helping us to deliver strong like-for-like performance in the first half of the year despite … [Read more...]
Britvic profit growth and strategy announcement
Despite the distractions of the (still) possible merger with Irn-Bru, Britvic has been pressing ahead with its own business: in announcing its interim results for the 28 weeks ended 14 April 2013 it points both to strong profit growth (up 27.6%), and to a new strategy. The new strategy is designed to deliver £30 million annual savings (chiefly through factory closures), as well … [Read more...]