The Society of Independent Brewers has drafted in a new sponsor for BeerX UK 2019, which takes place at the Exhibition Centre Liverpool from 13-14 March 2019. SIBA will team up with tech-based keg and cask specialist Kegstar for the event, the biggest trade event in the UK for beer and brewing businesses, attracting thousands…
Craft Beer Rising returns to The Old Truman Brewery next month… and it’s promising to be even beerier and cheerier than before! With more breweries and live music than ever, greater variety of street food in the new Foxes Den, more seating, a new beer hall layout, plus cider producers, live talks and much more……
An opportunity to celebrate the UK pub industry’s innovations, trends, products, services and people… Pub 19 brings key trade associations, business leaders, decision makers, pub owners, entrepreneurs and pub companies together to offer advice and solutions to those in the UK pub industry. It all takes place from 5-6 February at London’s Olympia, where the…
Award-winning drinks writers and comedy performers Ben McFarland and Tom Sandham have had a busy schedule since embarking on their bar crawl around the UK in October last year but after a break over the Christmas period they’re back on the road again later this month. As educational as it is entertaining, The Thinking Drinkers…
The medieval British city of Norwich plays host to the Great British Beer Festival Winter for its third and final year next month. Having hosted the winter festival from 2017, it will move on to a different CAMRA location in 2020. Taking place from 19-23 February at The Halls, the festival will include a vast…
Serving more than 400 cask ales, ciders, perries, bottled world beers, craft keg beers and meads, Derby Winter Ale Festival 2019 is an ale enthusiasts heaven. Organised by Derby CAMRA, the event takes place from 20-23 February at the stunning Roundhouse at Derby College, near Pride Park. Celebrating its 15th year, there will be a…
The Salisbury branch of CAMRA is holding its 22nd annual Winterfest on 25-26 January 2019, featuring 24 real ales and three ciders. The event takes place at the Royal British Legion Club in Endless Street, with tickets priced at £6, including a glass and souvenir programme. Card-carrying CAMRA members get a free half pint. There’s…
The 31st Dorchester Beerex takes place next month at the Corn Exchange, where more than 80 real ales and 21 ciders and perries will be available direct from the cask. Taking place from 1-2 February, the festival will include seating for more than 100 visitors at all four sessions upstairs in the Corn Exchange, allowing…
Remember Hofmeister, Harp, Carling, Skol, Kestrel and McEwans… just some of the formerly popular lager brands that flew off British shelves never to return, well another once-famous name on both sides of the pond almost went the same way last month. American lager Pabst Blue Ribbon, known for its economical price, was locked in a…
Alongside the mass of modern breweries and beer styles, a wall of wooden casks will greet traditionalists at Manchester Central in January when the north’s biggest beer festival comes to town. For more than 50 years breweries have been moving progressively to racking beer into metal casks and today these dominate the market but a…
