BREWERY NEWS
Beartown barrels will cut costs and aid environment
BEER NEWS
Ofqual regulation for WSET’s beer awards
BUSINESS FOCUS
How to mix business and sustainability in 2026
BUSINESS NEWS
Damm becomes newest Portman Group member
PUBS NEWS
National Pubwatch award for Wetherspoon founder
BUSINESS NEWS
BrewDog demonstration to take place in Aberdeen
BEER NEWS
Crafty Beer Girls create Women’s Day brew with Siren
• Role Reversal (6.4% ABV) is Siren’s first New England IPA of 2026. It brings with it a haze of fruit-forward hops. Expect a pillowy-soft mouthfeel and a glowing opaque pour with a distinct tropical aroma.
• Green Mountain, Thornbridge’s hazy session IPA, is the starting point for Red Mountain, a new 4.3% ABV session red IPA. “A refined malt bill gives this a magnificent ruby colour and a touch of sweetness, which stays fantastically balanced with the tropical hopping regime Green Mountain is famed for,” says the brewer.
• I wonder what the inspiration was for Split The D, Docks Beers’ 4.2% ABV nitro stout? Pouring smoothly with a cascading settle and a tight, creamy head, it has an all-British grain bill of barley, wheat, and oats, layered with dark crystal, chocolate malt, and roasted barley. British Fuggles keep the bitterness subtle and balanced.
BUSINESS NEWS
Brewers gain presence at London Wine Fair
PHOTO FEATURE
Attic Brew Co launch their new branding
CIDER NEWS
Celebrating cider at a new Scottish event
ROUND-UP
Oakham, Abyss, Orbit, Hop City, and more…
BUSINESS BRIEFING
Admiral Taverns, Krones, Heavitree Brewery, and more…
BUSINESS NEWS
James Watt could be part of BrewDog bid
HOSPITALITY NEWS
New venue for Hospitality Rides challenge
BEER NEWS
Uley’s Reservoir Hogs will launch next week
• SANS is a new alcohol-free range from Track, building on the success of AF versions of Sonoma and Arosa. Each iteration of SANS will feature different hops, starting with Citra and Eggers Special for notes of bright lime zest, passionfruit martini, pink grapefruit lemonade, and white grape.
• The organisers of Bristol Light Festival, which has just begun and which runs until 28th February, have collaborated with Left Handed Giant on Light It Up, a 4.8% ABV hazy pale. “A beautifully balanced hazy number, featuring a hat trick of hops that are sure to put a smile on your face,” says the brewer. Those hops are Citra, Mosaic, and El Dorado.
• Fresh Verdant DIPA How You Do Anything Is How You Do Everything (8% ABV) utilises two brash experimental New Zealand hops — NZH-109 and NZH-106 — paired with powerful Nectaron. “Expect incredible, exciting pungency amid pillowy soft slugs!” says the brewer.
BEER NEWS
Beer Street is Champion Winter Beer of Britain
DRINKS NEWS
London march will convey Mid-Strength message
EVENT NEWS
A summer celebration of great indie brewing
BEER NEWS
Up The Creek will pour to help River Trust
PUB NEWS
The country pub with its own black cab
EVENT NEWS
Craft Beer Expo marks brewery anniversary
CIDER NEWS
Light Bird, proper cider with low alcohol
• All I Wanna Do Is Brew It (6.5% ABV) is described by Electric Bear as a “bold, punchy IPA, bursting with modern hop firepower”. Vic Secret brings the tropical heat with flashes of ripe pineapple, Elani cuts through with sharp, zesty citrus, and Citra layers in classic grapefruit and juicy mango. All of it wrapped in a properly dank, resinous edge.
• The annual release of Northern Monk’s Stacks, an 8.4% ABV chocolate and hazelnut spread pancake stout, is here. “This is our annual celebration of Pancake Day, where we make our way through all the childhood filling favourites,” says the brewer.
• Freestyle Hops have provided experimental variety NZH-106 to Polly’s for 4% ABV pale ale Quiet Hour. Backing this up is a new blend of Nelson Sauvin, named Bliss. “Taking early-harvested Nelson and blending it with purposely stressed, ultra late-harvested crops, the result is a hop that is outrageously tropical, with complex sweet citrus, and a light dankness that only Nelson brings to the party,” says the brewer.
BEER NEWS
Lynn Brewery retains Norfolk bottle-conditoned beer title
BUSINESS FOCUS
Drinks seminars highlights at The Pub Show
BUSINESS NEWS
Edinburgh brewer targeting £10m turnover
BUSINESS FOCUS
BarthHaas innovates to tackle climate change
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