by Darren | Wednesday, 7 October, 2026 | Business News, Pubs and Bars News
Butcombe Group has been celebrating being named winner of the Excellence in Workplace Wellbeing (operators under 250 sites) award at the Licensed Trade Charity (LTC) Awards. The award recognises the group’s people-first approach to wellbeing, with judges praising a...
by Darren | Wednesday, 7 October, 2026 | Beer and Cider News
New beer launches and collaborations, in store, on bars, and online, from brewers around the UK Beer Hut has collaborated with Bullhouse on It’s Great for the Town, a 4.3% ABV pale ale. Juicy, bright, and tropical, it’s hopped with Citra, Nelson Sauvin, and Azacca. In...
by Darren | Tuesday, 6 October, 2026 | Beer and Cider News, Events News
Travellers can swap the conventional festival field for a five-mile heritage railway as the Spa Valley Railway’s award-winning Real Ale and Cider Festival returns to Tunbridge Wells. The festival opens at Tunbridge Wells West on Thursday, 15th October. Vintage trains...
by Darren | Tuesday, 6 October, 2026 | Beer and Cider News, Business News
Visitors to London Packaging Week’s Innovation Gallery voted Cool>Can their favourite innovation from this year’s showcase. The solution marks a world first: a shelf-ready, fully commercialised self-cooling can, developed in partnership with Brains Brewery, of...
by Darren | Tuesday, 6 October, 2026 | Beer and Cider News
Albert Johnson, from Ross-on-Wye Cider and Perry Company, has won CAMRA’s 2026 Pomona Award for championing the promotion of real cider and perry in the UK. Albert (pictured), whose father won the award in 2009, grows around 120 different apple varieties and 30 pear...
by Darren | Tuesday, 6 October, 2026 | Beer and Cider News, Business News, Pubs and Bars News
A round-up of stories and snippets from brewing and hospitality, and the latest business news in brief Indie Rabble have been named best new brewery at the Brewers Congress, staged at Big Penny Social, in London. “This was an award open to breweries trading for a...
by Darren | Tuesday, 6 October, 2026 | Beer and Cider News
Three further candidates have passed the Guild of Beer Sommeliers exam and gained beer sommelier accreditation. This brings the number of newly qualified sommeliers to 19 since the programme was relaunched in 2025, adding to a community of more than 200 existing...
by Darren | Tuesday, 6 October, 2026 | Business News, Pubs and Bars News
UKHospitality has released a Placemaking Report, setting out recommendations for government and local authorities to reduce red tape holding hospitality businesses back. Spanning seven key areas — business rates, development, infrastructure, licensing, planning,...
by Darren | Monday, 5 October, 2026 | Beer and Cider News
The London Brewing Company, in North Finchley, has been named as the 2026 winner of the John Young Memorial Award. It’s 20 years since John Young, chairman of Young’s Brewery for 44 years, died at the age of 85. The Ram Brewery site in Wandsworth, where Young’s was...
by Darren | Monday, 5 October, 2026 | Beer and Cider News, Business News, Pubs and Bars News
Britain’s beer and pub industry generated £37.8 billion to the UK economy in 2025, supported almost 1 million jobs, and contributed £16.8bn in tax. That’s the takeaway from new British Beer and Pub Association (BBPA) analysis. The trade body says the findings...
by Darren | Monday, 5 October, 2026 | Beer and Cider News, Business News, Pubs and Bars News
A second round-up of the major beer news stories from the past month is now available as a PDF. It includes extensive event listings for the month ahead. “I always had a long-term plan to try to get a magazine off the ground, and here’s the latest stage,”...
by Darren | Saturday, 3 October, 2026 | Pubs and Bars News
The Licensed Trade Charity (LTC) has announced the winners of its 2026 Awards, celebrating individuals and organisations leading the way in workplace wellbeing across licensed hospitality. The awards were presented at LTC’s annual awards dinner at the Leonardo...
