by Darren | Saturday, 8 August, 2020 | Beer News, Business News
Two Theakston employees have celebrated a combined 60 years of service for the Yorkshire brewery with a socially-distanced pint of cask at their Masham workplace. Cooper Jonathan Manby (left) and brewer Kevan Proctor Brewer Kevan Procter joined T&R Theakston Ltd...
by Darren | Saturday, 8 August, 2020 | Beer News, Business News, Pubs and Bars
Edinburgh’s Bellfield Brewery — exclusively gluten-free and vegan — is ringing in the changes with bold new branding, investment in production equipment, and an all-weather beer garden at its brewery taproom near the city centre. The Bellfield Taproom Bellfield’s new...
by Darren | Friday, 7 August, 2020 | Business News
Omni-ID, the pioneer of passive industrial radio frequency identification (RFID) tags, has launched a new tag for tracking beer barrels. Developed in collaboration with US asset-tracking company, Keg Hounds, the patented tag attaches securely to kegs without...
by Darren | Thursday, 6 August, 2020 | Business News, Pubs and Bars
The British Beer & Pub Association (BBPA) has backed calls from the Local Government Association (LGA) to ringfence £1 billion in grant funding that would otherwise be clawed back by government, to continue to help support pubs and other businesses severely...
by Darren | Wednesday, 5 August, 2020 | Beer News, Business News, Pubs and Bars
More than a third of UK pubs cannot break even after a month of opening, according to a survey conducted by the British Beer & Pub Association (BBPA). BBPA chief executive, Emma McClarkin Social distancing and other safety measures mean that pubs have less...
by Darren | Tuesday, 4 August, 2020 | Beer News, Business News, Pubs and Bars
Leicestershire pub The Forge is one of the first on-trade businesses to benefit from a support package launched by Budweiser Budvar UK designed to help operators as they re-open into the ‘new normal’ of post-lockdown trading. Sam Hagger (left), director of...
by Darren | Monday, 3 August, 2020 | Beer News, Business News
Eco-friendly, award-winning Bedlam Brewery, based at the foot of the South Downs in Sussex, has announced the appointment, with immediate effect, of Kim Francis as chairman of the board of directors. He replaces Nick Cooper, who is standing down due to other work...
by Darren | Friday, 31 July, 2020 | Beer News, Business News, Pubs and Bars
The Welsh government has announced that all pubs in Wales can re-open, indoors and out, from Monday, 3rd August. Previously, pubs in Wales could only re-open to serve outdoors, making it the last part of the UK where pubs couldn’t open indoors. The news has been...
by Darren | Friday, 31 July, 2020 | Beer News, Business News, Pubs and Bars
The British Beer & Pub Association has urged the UK government to extend its VAT cut on food in pubs to include beer as well. It has made the plea as the European Commission confirmed that, within the EU’s VAT directives, member states can apply targeted...
by Darren | Thursday, 30 July, 2020 | Business News, Pubs and Bars
Mandatory calorie labelling would harm pubs and brewers as they begin to recover from Covid-19 — that’s the response of the British Beer and Pub Association (BBPA) as the government unveils its obesity strategy. As part of the strategy, the government has said...
by Darren | Tuesday, 28 July, 2020 | Beer News, Business News, Pubs and Bars
The British Beer & Pub Association has welcomed the publication of a Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) select committee report on the impact of Coronavirus. But it says the report should have recommended extending the VAT cut for pubs beyond January...
by Darren | Tuesday, 28 July, 2020 | Business News, Pubs and Bars
Brains is to re-open 40 of its managed pubs next Monday, 3rd April, and anticipates that the majority of its 60 partners will also open their premises. Chief executive, Alistair Darby, said: “In order to support our partners, we have announced further measures to...
