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After years of domination by the Big Two, there are now 20 craft breweries in Ireland that are at long last offering drinkers a diverse range of ales, stouts and lagers. Xavier Baker (pictured) is just one of many independent brewers rolling back the tidal wave of the global giants' stouts

Added: Sunday, September 9th 2012

Jonathan Neame, chief executive of major regional brewer Shepherd Neame, says the "duty escalator" is doing great harm to pubs that are the centres of their communities

Added: Wednesday, September 5th 2012

The chairman of the Campaign for Real Ale says pub closures must be tackled, the beer duty escalator has to be scrapped and if some brewers want to make keg beer -- 'be my guest'

Added: Friday, August 17th 2012

The 2012 GBBF will be more than just a beer festival -- it's a celebration of the remarkable revival of beer on a world scale

Added: Sunday, July 22nd 2012

Sink or Swim, a strong India Pale Ale, brewed to a Victorian recipe, and aged for five months, is now on sale -- in half pints only -- at the Hop Pole pub in Aylesbury

Added: Saturday, July 21st 2012

Fordham and Old Dominion beers from Delaware have links to America's pre-revolutionary period and they are now on sale in Britain in bottle and on tap

Added: Sunday, July 15th 2012

Stratford may be a 'Heineken exclusion zone' for the Olympics but you can enjoy good beer in the Kings Cross/St Pancras area before heading east. Pictured is Fuller's new Parcel Yard at Kings Cross

Added: Saturday, July 14th 2012

An open letter to the Economic Secretary to the Treasury who supports the Beer Duty Escalator

Added: Thursday, July 12th 2012

The Farriers Arms in St Albans flew the real ale flag in the 1970s and is now visited by legions of cask beer drinkers anxious to worship at at the shrine where first CAMRA branch was founded

Added: Thursday, June 28th 2012

Head brewer Stuart Howe has brought his love of Belgian beer to his brewery at Rock where he has launched the first in a new range of full-tasting, complex, bottle-conditioned ales

Added: Thursday, June 14th 2012