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Suffolk brewer Greene King, the biggest brewer of cask ale in Britain, will launch a range of new cask beers in 2026 along with new pump clip designs. The launch comes on the back of the major success of Rocking Rudolph, its annual Christmas Beer.

Added: Monday, January 26th 2026

Garrett Oliver, the legendary brewmaster at the Brooklyn Brewery in New York City, has brewed a special strong dark mild using the Union set at Thornbridge Brewery. Sales of the beer will support the Michael James Jackson Foundation, created by Garrett to help people of colour working in the brewing and distilling industries.

Added: Tuesday, June 17th 2025

Hall & Woodhouse, the Dorset brewery famous for Badger beers, is producing a series of Founders Day beers to commemorate members of the Woodhouse family. The brewery will celebrate 250 years of brewing in 2027. The new beer, Frank's Integrity, salutes Frank Woodhouse, who worked at the brewery for close to 60 years and was chairman for a period.

Added: Tuesday, June 10th 2025

Craft brewers in the United States face a tough battle as they face increased competition from the global giants and now Trump's tariffs on imported grain and aluminium for cans. Brewery analyst Aaron Gore (pictured) says there's an air of doom and gloom in the craft sector as their sales are static and a number of breweries have closed.

Added: Tuesday, April 22nd 2025

Greene King has added to its craft and cask portfolio with two new beers. Double Header celebrates the history of its home town where King Edmund was beheaded by invading Vikings and then became a saint. Imperial IPA recalls the original IPAs of the 19th century and is based on a recipe found in the brewery archives.

Added: Sunday, March 23rd 2025

Thornbridge Brewery, which rescued a redundant Burton Union fermentation set from Marston's last year, is launching a new beer, 1838, at CAMRA's Great British Winter Beer Festival in Rotherham next week. The name commemorates the year brewer Peter Walker registered his Union system that went on to be widely used by brewers of pale ale and IPA

Added: Tuesday, February 4th 2025

Britain's legion of small independent brewers is tackling the problem of drinkers being misled by global lager giants who market such brands as Beavertown and Camden as indies. SIBA, the umbrella organisation for genuine independents, is placing stickers on handpumps to stress that their members' beers are genuine ales from independent producers

Added: Tuesday, October 22nd 2024

Broughton Brewery in the Scottish Borders is celebrating 40 years of brewing Old Jock, a style known as a "Wee Heavy". It has now spawned a range of beers all with Jock in the title, including Wee Jock and Stout Jock.

Added: Tuesday, October 15th 2024

Marston's has ended 190 years of brewing by selling its breweries to Carlsberg, Carlsberg, which has also bought Britvic, says it will create an integrated beer and soft drinks business, and will continue to supply ale as well as lager to pubs. But it has not committed to keeping the Marston's plants in Burton and Wolverhampton.

Added: Tuesday, July 9th 2024

The Heritage Brewery in Burton was forced to look for a new site when the National Brewery Centre closed. It has now merged with Burton Bridge Brewery where Geoff Mumford and Bruce Wilkinson had been brewing for 43 years and were keen to retire. The merged brewery will produce classic beers from both breweries and has plans to make some barrel-aged beers

Added: Tuesday, July 2nd 2024