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North-west supermarket group Booths has commissioned special beers from craft brewers in the region for an in-store festival of beer and cider this summer. Customers will be able to try samples of the beers before buying. The range includes a black IPA and a lemongrass beer. Pictured: checking casks at Hawkshead Brewery

Added: Thursday, June 19th 2014

American home-brewers have voted in their annual poll Pliny the Elder from Russian River Brewing the best beer in the United States. The poll is conducted by Zymurgy magazine and it's the sixth year running that Russian River has walked off with the top prize

Added: Wednesday, June 18th 2014

The Highgate Brewery in Walsall was famous for brewing only dark beers -- Mild and Old. At its peak, it brewed 100,00 barrels a year.But sold by Bass in 1995, it struggled to survive and was eventually bought by property developers who will turn the Grade-II listed site into flats

Added: Tuesday, June 17th 2014

Organisers of Norwich City of Ale -- the annual event that unites drinkers, pubs and breweries -- met members of the Parliamentary Beer Group on 9 June to share their experiences and suggest that other British cities could follow Norwich's lead. Organisers Dawn Leeder and Phil Cutter are seen with Andrew Griffiths MP, chair of the Beer Group

Added: Tuesday, June 10th 2014

Two of Yorkshire's top pub chefs, James Mackenzie (left) of the Pipe & Glass and Andrew Pern of the Star, have pooled their love of beer and food to launch a honey beer specially designed to match their dishes. And in Acton in London an old coaching inn has had a brewery installed where the beers are used as companions for food

Added: Saturday, June 7th 2014

Two leading artisan breweries -- Saltaire in Yorkshire and Dark Star in Sussex -- have produced a collaboration beer, Le IPA, to greet the Tour de France as cyclists wheel their way through Yorkshire en route to France

Added: Saturday, June 7th 2014

David Bruce, famous founder of the Firkins, is now in the chair at West Berkshire Brewery and has brought back Dogbolter, his legendary strong ale from Firkin days

Added: Friday, June 6th 2014

Ali Capper of the British Hop Association is urging craft brewers in Britain to switch to home-grown varieties as the price of "fashionable" American hops soars with the growth of new brewers in the U.S.

Added: Monday, May 19th 2014

Windsor & Eton Brewery has launched a competition for amateur brewers to develop a special Magna Carta beer to celebrate the 800th anniversary of the signing of the "Great Charter" in June 2015. The brewery has invited members of the London Amatuer Brewers to design beers and the winner will be invited to brew on the W&E plant. A special label has been designed by artist Graham Clarke, seen (left) in his studio with the brewery's marketing director Bob Morrison

Added: Monday, May 19th 2014

Pub landlords and CAMRA members delivered a petition to Business Secretary Vince Cable yesterday demanding action to save pubs from closure and to curb the power of the giant pubcos. But it's strongly rumoured that Dr Cable's promised report on pubcos will not now appear before the general election

Added: Thursday, May 15th 2014