The history of the Craft Beer Co

I (Martin Hayes) opened the CASK Pub and Kitchen in Pimlico (SW1V 2EE) in the summer…

A quarter of a century of promoting beer quality

I remember first meeting Paul Nunny in 1997, in a pub in East Anglia, when he…

Trade news – January 2023

FULLER’SThe pub company recently closed two well known pubs. First was the Inn of Court (formerly…

Opinion – homogenisation

Back in the 1980s, one of those firms that doesn’t actually do anything but owns all…

Autumn Statement

The Chancellor of the Exchequer’s Autumn Statement was delivered on 17 November, just as we went…

National Brewery Museum

Burton on Trent in Staffordshire is known as Britain’s Capital of Brewing. Consequently, it is fitting…

Beer festivals – the difference

At the end of Christine Cryne’s article in the last edition on the current state of…

News and views – November 2022

THE FINAL FOUR The four pubs in the last round of CAMRA’s National Pub of the…

Trade News – November 2022

FULLER’S BREWERY AND DARK STAR As we went to print, news was coming through that Asahi…

Planning update

FLAT CONVERTED INTO PUB! That’s a headline I never thought that I would write. Steve Silcock…