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An article in Guardian Online by Tony Naylor suggested that Mild ale was in such steep decline that CAMRA's Mild Month promotion was a waste of time. But there's life in the style yet, with many more brewers producing it. Simon Yates of Banks's Brewery (pictured) thinks Mild will be rediscovered -- and his brewery is the biggest producer of Mild in the world

Added: Wednesday, May 13th 2015

The £25 million Marston's has been for the brewing side of Thwaites of Blackburn will reap the Burton giant a rich reward as it can flood Thwaites' tied and free accounts with its own beers. Thwaites says it still plans to build anew brewery -- but what would it produce there as it has signed a 10-year production deal with Marstons? It's more likely that Thwaites is destined to become just a pub company but will keep control of the Crafty Dan micro plant

Added: Friday, April 3rd 2015

Julie O'Grady and a group of like-minded women beer lovers on Merseyside have got together to promote their favourite tipple and encourage more women to sample the vast array of different aromas and flavours offered by modern beer and prove that it's not just a drink for men with beards

Added: Saturday, March 28th 2015

Jane Peyton is leading a crusade to make 15 June 2015 Beer Day Britain. It coincides with celebrations to mark the signing of Magna Carta and, Jane argues, is the ideal day to raise a glass of beer to salute the national drink

Added: Saturday, March 21st 2015

The Duck and Drake pub in Leeds offers a range of beers from local breweries served from wooden casks or "woodies". One event was held in association with the Society for the Preservation of Beers from the Wood. In nearby Castleford, the Junction pub is the pacesetter, offering a rolling range of beers served from oak casks.

Added: Friday, February 20th 2015

Beer price increases could put as much as 12p on the price of a pint as Carlsberg. Heineken and Molson Coors jack up their wholesale prices. Their justification -- that "manufacturing costs" force them to raise prices -- doesn't hold water as the price of both malt and fuel are in free-fall.

Added: Tuesday, February 10th 2015

A commercial for American Budweiser is a frontal attack on craft beer and geeky drinkers who 'dissect' fruit beers. The suggestion is that real men drink Bud without sniffing aromas. But Anheuser-Busch has bought or has major stakes in several American craft breweries that offer rich aromas of coffee, chocolate and...pumpkin -- such as Redhook's Pumpkin Porter

Added: Tuesday, February 3rd 2015

Unloved and unwanted by Carlsberg, the British subsidiary of the Danish brewer has killed Draught Burton Ale. It was a beer that played a pivotal role in the "real ale revolution" in the 1970s and 80s but lost its way in the game of musical chairs played by giant brewers

Added: Tuesday, January 6th 2015

The Beer Orders, brought in by Business Secretary Lord Young in Margaret Thatcher's government in the early 1990s, sought to break the power of the "Big Six" national brewers whose tied estates dominated beer retailing. But the orders backfired, leading to the creation of giant pub companies -- pubcos -- that now exercise an even greater grip over the supply of beer

Added: Saturday, December 27th 2014

Brigid Simmonds of the British Beer & Pub Association attacks the Market Rent option for pubco tenants by defending the "tied house" system she says has been around for centuries. She's rewriting history in her rush to defend the giant pub companies

Added: Friday, December 19th 2014