Beer Today publisher Darren Norbury takes a bus to Treen's Brewery in Ponsanooth, Cornwall, to celebrate the business's sixth anniversary. Simon Treen hosting the sixth...
Treen’s marks sixth anniversary with eight-beer party
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Saltings Brew Co relocates and gets canning new IPA
It’s quite a while ago now, pre-pandemic even, when Nick Simpson, proprietor of the Pilchard Press Alehouse micropub, in St Ives, passed me a bottle of IPA bearing a...
Tasting my way through Flavourly’s Small Batch Originals
Online retailer Flavourly has linked up with six well-known breweries for a first batch of bespoke small-batch beers. They were kind enough to send me a box to try, complete...
Old rituals and fabulous beers at Devon’s MaltingsFest
When Tucker’s Maltings, in Newton Abbot, closed in 2018, there were fears for the future of the annual festival held in the historic building. It turns out, we need not have...
Canning, sustainability, and new flavours at Bluestone
There's something in the water in Pembrokeshire and it's helping to elevate Bluestone Brewing Co's new range of craft beers. Building on a tradition of making popular cask...
So, Mr Chancellor, what about hospitality?
What happened there? Did we miss something? No, apprently not. No mention of VAT in respect of hospitality in the chancellor's Spring Statement. Okay, it's not all bad news....
More mild at the Driftwood Spars beer festival
Before Covid (do we denote those days as BC?) I was a bit fed up with beer festivals. I’d come to the conclusion that (with the possible exception of St Austell Brewery’s...
Why I’m celebrating mild this March
“Mild. That’s an old man’s drink.” There’s a phrase from the past. The relatively recent past, just as the craft beer scene was gathering steam, and dark beers were porters...
Round-up: Staff problems and revenue fears continue
It's a new week and, thankfully, there have been no new restrictions on hospitality in England. Covid, however, continues to play a big part in the lives of operators...