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After intense lobbying, Marston's has restored Brakspear Triple to bottle-conditioned format. As with the great Trappist ales of Belgium (Chimay beers pictured) ageing in bottle gives beer greater depth of flavour

Added: Saturday, November 30th 2013

Petra Wetzel has taken Glasgow by storm. In the course of a few years she has built the success and reputation of WEST, a Bavarian-style beer hall with a brewery producing lagers and wheat beers to the ancient Pure Beer Law. Now she has funding to build a new brewery on the outskirts of the city

Added: Friday, November 29th 2013

The Mayflower on the south bank of the Thames marks the spot where the Pilgrim Fathers set sail for America in 1620. Lovingly restored, you can marvel at the beams, settles and latticed windows...and enjoy good ale and food

Added: Tuesday, November 26th 2013

The Val-Dieu and Bellevaux breweries in the eastern region of Belgium, near Liege, maintain the ancient traditions of brewing in abbeys -- Val-Dieu beers are pictured with the local Herve cheese -- and on farms. Val-Dieu has lost its monks and brewing is now conducted by a woman "brewster". Near Malmedy, Carla and Wil Schuwer from the Netherlands have opened a rustic brewery in the rolling Ardennes

Added: Friday, November 8th 2013

William Nicholson, a 19th-century gin distiller in London, was also a keen cricketer who helped fund Lord's ground. His company bought Victorian "gin palaces" that form the bedrock of modern Nicholson's pubs, which stages a major beer festival until the middle of November. Some of the pubs, such as the Coal Hole in London's Strand, have more humble origins

Added: Monday, October 21st 2013

Teo Musso (third from left with his brewery team), started with a beer tent in Piedmont and now has bistros in key Italian cities. He is offering drinkers a range of beers that are in sharp contrast to mainstream "industrial lagers". A new Baladin bistro has opened in Milan and is attracting a large audience

Added: Tuesday, September 24th 2013

Greene King boss Rooney Anand has transformed the fortunes of the Suffolk-based brewing and pubs groups. Now he's installing a new brewhouse where a wide range of short-run beers will add to the appeal of his pubs

Added: Monday, September 23rd 2013

On the Hereford-Worcester border, hop farmer Ali Capper, with her husband Richard, is attempting to raise the profile of British hops. They argue that the 23 varieties of hops grown in Britain offer brewers all the aromas and flavours they need to make distinctive beer

Added: Wednesday, September 18th 2013

There are now more than 500 small craft breweries in Italy and several were on display at the Great British Beer Festival in London. They were promoted by leading beer writers Luca Giaccone (left) and Lorenzo Dabove, better known as Kuaska, and a long-standing champion of Italian craft beer

Added: Thursday, August 22nd 2013

Sophie Atherton is the first ever woman beer sommelier and in July she was given the prestigious award of Beer Sommelier of the Year by the Parliamentary Beer Club. Now she plans to raise the appreciation of beer and stop it being seen as wine's poor relation. She's pictured at the Great British Beer Festival

Added: Tuesday, August 20th 2013