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Well someone must be hurting 27 Jul 2013 | 04:51 pm
UK beer sales fell by 4.8 per cent in the second quarter of 2013, according to the British Beer & Pub Association’s quarterly Beer Barometer, so why are so many brewers recording record sales? Losses...
Beer in art and literature – number 1 25 Jul 2013 | 04:26 pm
Beer Matters it really does. And it is for this reason that so many writers and artists use beer and pubs in their creations. This is the first in what will be an occasional series of some of my favou...
Winds of change blow for Draft House 8 Apr 2013 | 11:50 pm
With two daughters now living in Clahpam, London, I am now taking a renewed interest in pubs south of the river.
Black Friar shines a white light onto a great pub – one of London’s finest 29 Mar 2013 | 07:47 pm
In world of the weirdly, weird, this pub is different. It starts with the outside – the building looks like a mini version of New York’s famed flatiron skyscraper
List your local pub as a communitty asset and it could thwart developers 24 Mar 2013 | 07:32 pm
Do you think your local pub might be under threat of closure one day? Well you have a new weapon in your armoury to stop it happening, having it registered as a community asset with your local council...
Norwich City of Ale gets ready for the action 23 Mar 2013 | 03:27 pm
The organisers of this year’s Norwich City of Ale – 23 May-2 June promise that this year’s event will be bigger and better than last year’s event. Last year 45 city pubs offered 240 beers from 35 loca...
People power sees dramatic cut in beer tax 20 Mar 2013 | 09:08 pm
The cutting of the beer in the budget http://www2.beerguild.co.uk/?p=3928 is indeed a momentous moment, which many people can rightly claim they have contributed to and claim as theirs.
Sunday lunch at BBC Radio Oxford – something for the beer and foodies 24 Jun 2012 | 04:08 am
Bill Buckley – My on air lunch time companion About once a month I get the chance to have a very nice lunch with BBC Radio Oxford presenter Bill Buckley. For one hour live on radio, we munch, crunch...
Dave Wickett remembered – An extraordinary pub owner and brewer 8 Jun 2012 | 12:13 am
Dave Wickett loved to tell the story of how he bought his first pub in 1981, the same year that the pubco J D Wetherspoon was founded. Thirty-one years on Dave still had one pub in the UK, and “Spoons...
Government intervention in industry, like a butterfly’s wings opening in the Amazon 13 Feb 2012 | 09:25 am
1989 was a pivotal year for the brewing industry. The pro-business and anti-intervention Thatcher government introduced legislation which would radically change the nature of brewing and pub retailing...
