Small Brewers’ Duty Relief

You can tell when a story is important; it appears in the back pages (the serious…

Pub Design Awards

Having given you the winners of last year’s competition, I’m pleased to be able to tell…

Planning law update

Under planning legislation, most buildings are allocated to what is called a Use Class. Different rules…

Trade news – September 2020

FULLER’S (PUBS) NEWS Fuller’s took a cautious approach to reopening their pubs in central London. A…

National Brewery Centre Archives

The archives at the National Brewery Centre in Burton-on-Trent hold some half a million items illustrating…

Cask Ale Week

Time’s a bit tight but you might just be able to participate in this year’s Cask…

Pub news – September 2020

Academy, Notting Hill: this case illustrates how useful the planning rules can be (see page 19).…

Book review – The Family Brewers of Britain: A Celebration of British Brewing Heritage

I previewed the latest publication from CAMRA Books, The Family Brewers of Britain: A Celebration of…

Brewery news – September 2020

AFFINITY BREW CO Affinity have now started brewing in the basement of the Grosvenor Arms in…

Health and wellbeing

GOING SOBER FOR OCTOBER This campaign is being organised by Macmillan Cancer Support, an organisation for…