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Celebrate spring with rich range of ales

The weather is getting warmer and it's time to unwrap with some beers from far and near. Belhaven Black Stout is a long-running Scottish favourite but it's now enjoying a national roll out in 1,000 Lidl stores. Hall & Woodhouse has a new bottled Badger beer, Iron Hart, a strong pale ale available n most major supermarkets. Siren Craft Brew offers two pale ales, an imperial stout an an oak-aged barley wine

Added: Monday, April 13th 2026

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Champion beer had a mountain to climb

An amber beer, brewed with rare rye crystal malt, has won CAMRA's prestigious Champion Winter Beer of Britain competition. It's brewed by Alex Woods at the London Brewing Company based in the Bohemia pub in Finchley.

Added: Sunday, March 15th 2026

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St Austell celebrates with anniversary ales

St Austell Brewery in Cornwall is celebrating its 175th anniversary with a special range of cask ales, some drawn from recipes in old brewing books. They include a beer to mark Nelson's victory at Trafalgar and Trelawny named after Bishop Trelawny, a supporter of the Royalist cause during the English Civil War, who was imprisoned in the Tower of London.

Added: Thursday, March 5th 2026

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Greene King launches new cask range

Suffolk brewer Greene King, the biggest brewer of cask ale in Britain, will launch a range of new cask beers in 2026 along with new pump clip designs. The launch comes on the back of the major success of Rocking Rudolph, its annual Christmas Beer.

Added: Monday, January 26th 2026

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Arctic Ale comes in from the cold

Dougal Sharp (left), founder of Innis & Gunn, has joined forces with Jamie Allsopp to recreate a historic beer from the 19th century. Jamie is a direct descendant of the great Burton brewer Samuel Allsopp who made a special Arctic Ale for a British expedition to the North Pole in 1875. A bottle of the beer was found in Shropshire and was used in the new version

Added: Friday, January 16th 2026

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Brewers recall hey-day of stout

Great interest is being shown by independent brewers in Porter and Stout, beer styles from the 18th century. Both Hook Norton in Oxfordshire and Heritage Brewery in Burton-on-Trent have produced versions of stout based on original recipes. Hook Norton's version is aged in oak casks for 18 months while Heritage P2 is based on Bass's P2 Export Stout sent to Russia and the Baltic States.

Added: Sunday, January 11th 2026

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Xmas beer: let it flow, let it flow,...

It's that time of year when Santa gets stuck up the chimney after too many Christmas beers. Here is a fine selection of some of the beers available this year

Added: Monday, December 8th 2025

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Draught Bass is bouncing back

AB In Bev, the world's biggest brewer, has bowed to grassroots campaigners and has launched a major promotion for Draught Bass. Bass was once Britain's leading premium cask ale, worth close to one million barrels a year, but that has fallen to 30,000 barrels and the beer has become hard to find. But now more than 1,000 pubs will serve it with new pump clips and glasses.

Added: Tuesday, December 2nd 2025

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Brooklyn brewmaster's Union Mild

Garrett Oliver, the legendary brewmaster at the Brooklyn Brewery in New York City, has brewed a special strong dark mild using the Union set at Thornbridge Brewery. Sales of the beer will support the Michael James Jackson Foundation, created by Garrett to help people of colour working in the brewing and distilling industries.

Added: Tuesday, June 17th 2025

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U.S. craft brewers face tough battle

Craft brewers in the United States face a tough battle as they face increased competition from the global giants and now Trump's tariffs on imported grain and aluminium for cans. Brewery analyst Aaron Gore (pictured) says there's an air of doom and gloom in the craft sector as their sales are static and a number of breweries have closed.

Added: Tuesday, April 22nd 2025