Beer News

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

Pubs have been the centre of community life for centuries in Britain and their role as hubs of society will be celebrated in a series of films by Greene King to be aired this month. Each film has been taken by a publican and will show customers drinking, chatting and enjoying pub life. The pubs include the Hawley Arms in London's Camden, used by many famous showbiz people, and the Olde Trip to Jerusalem in Nottingham, believed to be England's oldest pub

Added: Monday, October 19th 2015

With Kent's Green Hop Festival in full swing, five breweries will run special bus trips on Saturday 10 October that will allow beer lovers to sample a special beer range brewed with hops fresh from the harvest. The festival is the brainchild of Eddie Gadd of Gadds' Brewery who is keen to promote English hops that are under threat from imported varieties

Added: Sunday, October 4th 2015

Cask Ale Week, the annual celebration of Britain's iconic beer style, runs until 4 October and this year features scores of beers brewed with Maris Otter, craft brewers' favourite malting barley that has won 16 awards in the annual Champion Beer of Britain competition. The celebrations -- backed by beer talks, tastings and Meet the Brewer events -- will be staged in pubs throughout the country

Added: Monday, September 28th 2015

Cask beer -- real ale -- is on a roll and is offering a lifeline to the pub trade, says Pete Brown in the 2015 edition of the Cask Report. Real ale accounts for 17% of all beer sales and its share of the pub trade is expected to rise to 20% by 2020. The report says cask beer drinkers visit pubs twice as often as other consumers and encourage other people to join them when they go out for a beer

Added: Thursday, September 24th 2015