by Darren | Friday, February 15, 2019 | PUBS AND BARS
A bedroom at the Counting House, Cornhill Fuller’s has added bedrooms at The Counting House, in Cornhill, and The Blackbird, in Earl’s Court, bringing the total number of bedrooms in its estate to 813. Both pubs are in excellent locations, close to transport...
by Darren | Thursday, February 14, 2019 | BEER NEWS, EVENTS, PUBS AND BARS
Tate Modern is to host a one-off Bristol collaboration on February 28, which aims to educate guests on West Country brewing. Invited to take over the taps this month are Left Handed Giant, Lost and Grounded, Wiper & True, Arbor, Electric Bear and Mills Brewing....
by Darren | Wednesday, February 13, 2019 | BEER NEWS, CORNWALL NEWS, PUBS AND BARS
Following a 2018 crowdfunding campaign, Verdant Brewing Co has now opened its Seafood Bar, on Quay Street, Falmouth, in Cornwall. Unable to serve customers at its brewing site, Verdant had been on the hunt for an outlet for a while, and saw the Quay Street venue,...
by Darren | Tuesday, February 12, 2019 | PUBS AND BARS
Shepherd Neame is offering one lucky Kent comedian the opportunity to perform alongside some of the UK’s top comics at an exclusive London gig. Britain’s oldest brewer has invited 25 amateur comedians from across the county to take part in a Battle of the Wits at its...
by Darren | Monday, February 11, 2019 | BEER NEWS, CORNWALL NEWS, PUBS AND BARS
Sharp’s beer sommelier, Ed Hughes (left) with Paul and Emma Ainsworth Sharp’s has announced that Paul and Emma Ainsworth are to take over the lease of the brewery’s Mariners pub in Rock, Cornwall, following the departure of fellow chef and friend,...
by Darren | Monday, February 11, 2019 | BEER NEWS, CORNWALL NEWS, PUBS AND BARS
The Trelawny Shout — the annual St Piran’s Day community rendition of Cornwall’s most famous anthem — will return on March 5. Its success is in its simplicity: one song, one night, but thousands of voices raising the roofs of pubs up and down the land for Cornish...
by Darren | Thursday, February 7, 2019 | PUBS AND BARS
The winning team (left to right) of Therese Coffey MP, Parliamentary assistant Carys Major, Simon Hoare MP and CAMRA chief executive, Tom Stainer, with Mike Wood MP, chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Beer Group, Parliamentary assistant, Dan Horrocks, and quizmaster...
by Darren | Friday, February 1, 2019 | BEER NEWS, BUSINESS NEWS, PUBS AND BARS
The British Beer & Pub Association (BBPA) has welcomed the implementation of the freeze on beer duty from today, which was announced by the Chancellor Phillip Hammond in the autumn Budget. During a visit to a brewery in Liverpool today, the Chancellor praised the...
by Darren | Friday, February 1, 2019 | PUBS AND BARS
The Sportsman in Seasalter has been named the best gastropub in Britain for a fourth year at the Estrella Damm Top 50 Gastropubs Awards. The Shepherd Neame-owned pub, run by brothers Stephen and Phil Harris, picked up the title at an awards lunch on Monday, after...
by Darren | Friday, February 1, 2019 | CORNWALL NEWS, PUBS AND BARS
Winner Adrian Oliver pictured with some of the Great Sausage Roll Off judges Adrian Oliver, from The Kernow Sausage Company, has been crowned winner of Fuller’s Great Sausage Roll Off 2019, staged in London this week. Competing at the Red Lion, Barnes, Adrian...
by Darren | Wednesday, January 30, 2019 | BEER NEWS, BUSINESS NEWS, PUBS AND BARS
The Draft House, Farringdon, in London — the first to be opened under BrewDog’s ownership BrewDog is to open its second site under the Draft House name since it bought the pub group from entrepreneur Charlie McVeigh last year. The new site will be in the...
by Darren | Tuesday, January 29, 2019 | BEER NEWS, PUBS AND BARS
PubAid co-founder Des O’Flanagan (right) presents a World’s Biggest Pub Quiz pack to Will Shaw, licensee at the Crown Inn, Sydenham Fundraising packs for the World’s Biggest Pub Quiz will be arriving over the next few weeks at the 970 pubs, bars and...
