Beer News

St Austell Brewery has linked up with the Eden Project to launch a beer using the ancient plant alecost. Sommelier Nigel Sadler publishes a small book on how to match beer and food. Estrella Damm to spend £3.5m on UK promotion

Added: Saturday, June 8th 2013

Shepherd Neame, Britain's oldest brewer based in Kent, has recreated a pale ale from the early 19th century that proves the style was not confined to Burton-on-Trent

Added: Saturday, May 18th 2013

West London brewer Fuller's has signed an exclusive deal with the top Belgian Trappist monastic brewer to launch Chimay Gold on draught in the UK.

Added: Tuesday, May 14th 2013

Enter Shikari, the Alternative Rock band with musicians drawn from St Albans, are keen beer drinkers. They have teamed up with Signature Brew based in London to launch their own beer Sssnakepit. The beer will be available at the group's concerts. Oliver Wolffe reports

Added: Monday, May 13th 2013

Wye Valley launches bottle-conditioned beer using UK-grown Cascade hops; a new beer from the Belgian Chimay Trappist brewery, Gold, will be launched by Butcombe Brewery at Bristol's food and drink festival; Brain's Cardiff brewery launches collaborative IPA with beer reviewer Simon Martin; Newcastle United supporters' special brew to aid cancer charity; US home-brewing now legal in all 50 states

Added: Friday, May 10th 2013

Starting this weekend, May will see a number of key beer talks and tastings, several featuring Roger Protz, including the Lord Clifden in Birmingham (pictured), Elgood's Brewery in Wisbech, and Meantime in Greenwich.. Meantime Brewery is joining forces with Young's pubs in London and Surrey for a series of beer-and-food events in May

Added: Tuesday, April 30th 2013

McEwan's beer, for long sidelined in Scotland, is making a comeback under new owners Wells & Young's. But the new 'smoothflow' McEwan's Red is a long way removed from the legendary 80 Shilling sold at the equally legendary Athletic Arms -- the Diggers -- in Edinburgh. There's 80 Bob on the bar but it's a house beer brewed by Stewart's of Loanhead

Added: Friday, April 26th 2013

Winners in the International Brewing Awards (pictured with chairman Bill Taylor in London's Guildhall) named nine beers and one cider as overall champions, drawn from all parts of the world

Added: Thursday, April 25th 2013

A seminar in London attended by brewers from Britain and overseas has heard that the 20 hop varieties grown here offer as many aromas and flavours as New World versions. The seminar is part of a campaign to stop the decline of the British hop industry -- a campaign led by hop farmer Ali Capper (pictured)

Added: Tuesday, April 23rd 2013