Dorset Beer Festival Hosts County’s First Beer And Music Pairing, Raises £10,000 For Charity
Over 1500 guests visited the Dorset Beer Festival at the Hall & Woodhouse Brewery in Blandford last weekend (13 and 14 June) to enjoy beers…
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Breweries
St Austell Brewery Delivers Another Year Of Growth And Unveils Major New Rebrand
St Austell Brewery has reported strong financial performance with a further year of record-breaking turnover and underlying EBITDA growth of 8.7% in the 52-week period…
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Thornbridge Brewery and Garrett Oliver Collaborate to Support The Michael James Jackson Foundation
Thornbridge Brewery has announced a special collaboration with Garrett Oliver, Brewmaster of Brooklyn Brewery, to create a unique beer brewed on the world’s only operational…
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43 Breweries Become Insolvent In 2024/25 – As UK Craft Beer Market Faces Up To Overcapacity
43 UK breweries have become insolvent in the last year, says national accountancy group UHY Hacker Young. The 43 breweries that have become insolvent include…
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Hall & Woodhouse Named a Sunday Times Best Places to Work Employer for Second Year Running
The 2025 Sunday Times Best Places to Work Awards celebrate top UK companies that deliver employee satisfaction and workplace excellence. Results for the awards are…
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Start of 2025 ‘Tough for Independent Brewers’ as Number of UK Brewers Continues to Drop
The number of breweries in the UK has continued to drop, with 136 fewer brewers as of the end of March 2025 compared to 31st…
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Annual Pride Of Greene King Awards Celebrates Team Members From Across The Country
Greene King, the country’s leading pub company and brewer, enjoyed a gala night of celebration in Solihull on Wednesday evening (7 May) to crown the…
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Heineken Announces £40 Million Star Pubs Investment
HEINEKEN UK has announced today (May 5) it will invest £40m in upgrading and reopening pubs in its Star Pubs division in 2025, creating nearly…
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Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night, Comes To Shepherd Neame’s Historic Brewery
Brewer Shepherd Neame is joining forces with Kent theatre company, Changeling, for a third year to stage a live performance, but this summer’s show will…
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Heavy Headwinds Threaten To Blow Independent Breweries Off Course According To New Report
A new report published today has shown that whilst demand for independent beer remains strong, UK brewers face “heavy headwinds” from increased taxation, market access…
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CAMRA Renews Calls to Halt ‘Imitation’ Cask Beer Sales
“Centuries of British tradition” are under threat says CAMRA as it renews calls for brewing giant Carlsberg to stop selling what it says is imitation…
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News From Braai to Beer Cans: The White Hart Welcomes Back Nick Panterlis
There was fire on the grill and a buzz in the air as The White Hart, Whitchurch, welcomed back landlord Nick Panterlis with a proper…
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Shepherd Neame Reshapes Leadership as Pubs MD Steps Down
Independent Kent brewer and pub company Shepherd Neame has announced a senior leadership change as part of a wider strategic shift, confirming that Jonathon Swaine,…
Read more...Britain’s Brewing Heritage At Risk From Climate Change Report Reveals
The future of Britain’s traditional supply of brewing ingredients, from both home and abroad, is at risk of being severely diminished by climate change unless…
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Trump’s 25% Tariff Threatened British Beer Exports
UK Brewers have been hit by a surprise “beer can tax” after it emerged that lager, stout and pale ale will be subject to a…
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