Craft Beer
Coverage highlights how restaurants, pubs, and bars across the UK are sourcing, promoting, and profiting from craft beer, including brewery partnerships, range curation, pricing strategy, taproom innovation, and consumer demand trends. Reporting offers insights for operators navigating category fragmentation, premiumisation, and the role of craft within broader drinks and experience-led propositions
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Jul- 2018 -5 JulyBusiness
Pubs on the upturn thanks to warm weather sales boost
Pubs are set to see a resurgence bolstered by the World Cup and warm weather, the BDO Restaurants and Bars report has suggested. Hot weather in May helped boost trade across the UK for pubs, however, the Coffer Peach Business Tracker indicated a decrease in restaurant sales. Overall, pub, restaurant…
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Jun- 2018 -27 JuneFeatures
A changing appetite for craft beer
Once upon a time, beer drinkers consumed hoppy lagers, strong ales, stouts and wheat beers, but in the last half a century, the consumer has jettisoned these flavours for a lighter style of lager, with Budweiser retaining the title as the UK’s favourite. However, the past few years have witnessed…
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27 JuneBeverages
Marston’s signs five-year deal deal with US-based Founders Brewing Company
UK pub chain and brewery Marston’s has signed a five-year distribution deal with US brewery Founders Brewing Company. The deal will see Marston’s distribute the American company’s craft beer portfolio of 40 different beers as it looks to bolster UK sales following recent poor performance, which has seen the company…
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18 JunePeople
Chef Adam Handling to open largest site with Frog E1 relocation
Renowned London chef Adam Handling will move his first award-winning restaurant The Frog E1 to a new, larger site at 45-47 Hoxton Square in July. The building, which sits on the corner joining Hoxton Square, Rufus Street, and Old Street, will be home to the newly named The Frog Hoxton…
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6 JuneCafes and Coffee Shops
Eat’s bread leftovers to be used for Toast Ale craft beer
Sandwich chain Eat has announced a new partnership with Toast Ale to give its leftover bread to the beer company for brewing purposes. The bread will be used in the production of craft beers that will be sold in Eat’s five licenced premises. Eat is using the partnership as a…
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Mar- 2018 -26 MarchBeverages
Craft beers fail to impress consumers
Consumers feel bombarded by multiple craft launches and unusual flavours, claims new research. According to GlobalData, alcoholic beverage consumers feel that they are overloaded with choice. The news that more than half (57%) of beer and cider consumers in Asia-Pacific (APAC) find new experiences more exciting than new products also…
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