Beer News

A new beer from Czech brewer Budweiser Budvar uses the age-old method of "krausening" for its new 4% lager. The beer is neither filtered nor pasteurised and has a slight natural haze in the glass as a result of a powerful second fermentation in the brewery's cellars before it is kegged. The beer will be launched on 10 March in pubs in London and Manchester

Added: Friday, February 26th 2016

Feisty Scottish brewer BrewDog has launched a milk stout, Jet Black Heart, that takes a tilt at Diageo, the global drinks group that owns Guinness. The beer was chosen by BrewDog drinkers from a range of possible new brands and founders James Watt and Martin Dickie have taken the opportunity to hit back at Diageo which three years ago attempted to stop BrewDog winning a top award in the Scottish Bar Operator of the Year awards

Added: Thursday, February 11th 2016

Three breweries -- Meantime, Purity and West Berkshire -- are celebrating key moments in their history with special strong ales in 750ml bottles, driven corks and Champagne cradles. Two of the beers -- Purity and West Berkshire -- have been aged in wood while Meantime's IPA was fermented with a Champagne yeast culture

Added: Thursday, January 14th 2016

Glenn Payne, beer ambassador, who died over the weekend of 5/6 December, had a vast knowledge of beer that he shared with fellow beer lovers throughout the world. He was a familiar figure at beer festivals in the United States and judged in beer competitions there. His passion for beer encouraged many to follow in his footsteps and his many friends and colleagues pay tribute to him

Added: Thursday, December 10th 2015

Six Degrees Brewery near Aberdeen, which specialises in Belgian-style beer, has produced a Belgian IPA for Oddbins, with Hallertau Mittelfruh hops added six times during the copper boil. The brewery has also produced two lambic-stytle beers for Oddbins, a straight lambic aged for two years in wood, and Framboise with raspberries added.

Added: Monday, November 23rd 2015

Virgin Trains and Rudgate Brewery have joined forces to launch Hop on Board, a beer designed for passengers using the East Coast route from London to Edinburgh via Leeds, York and Newcastle. Virgin expects to sell 55,000 bottles a year of the beer, which comes with the special Hoptimist beer glass that always appears half full

Added: Thursday, October 22nd 2015

Research by Anglia Ruskin University shows that beer drinkers in mainland Europe prefer stronger drinks than their British counterparts. The most popular exported British beer is Halcyon Imperial IPA (7.4%) brewed by Thornbridge, followed by BrewDog's Jack Hammer IPA (7.2%). The favourite continental brew is Westvleteren 12 brewed by Trappist monks. A further Trappist beer from the monks of Rochefort abbey is also popular

Added: Wednesday, October 21st 2015