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Country pub operators have hit back at remarks linking rural pub nostalgia with the far right, arguing village pubs remain vital community hubs facing real financial pressures.

Adnams is launching Ghost Ship Alcohol-Free Pale Ale on handpull keg, following four years of development and strong growth in low & no beer.

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A range of up to 30 cask ales, including five from international brewers, will be available at Wetherspoon pubs during a 12-day beer festival.The pubs will host the festival from Wednesday 7 to Sunday...

Light musings on how the pub is depicted in films

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This 2026 Great British Pub of the Year has been revealed as the Tamworth Tap in Staffordshire at the Great British Pub Awards.

This study investigates how consumers trade-off between various features when making pub choices, a previously underexplored area. Uniquely we apply foraging theory as a multi-level, ecologically b...

The new owner of Brewdog has embarked on a campaign to rid itself of the controversies of the Scottish brewer’s former regime. The Under New Ownership campaign includes 48-sheet London Underground ads...

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Staff owed £489,000 in wages and holiday pay will receive nothing from BrewDog Retail's administration after squatter removals, collapsed…

Guinness has gone from a working-class staple to one of the most fashionable drinks in Britain, complete with a second clothing collaboration with Percival. James Bayley asks what its transformation s...

Westminster has adopted its revised licensing policy, shrinking the West End cumulative impact zone while retaining its definition of ‘vertical drinking’.

Campaigners are looking to raise £250k to buy The Trafalgar in South Wimbledon and make it Merton’s first community-owned pub.

Tadcaster-based Sam Smith’s Brewery has reopened 18 of its pubs in the past three months, according to Malton man Tom Taverner.

More computer-aided controversy.

Cornerstone Inns is targeting up to five sites for the first phase of its worker-owned pub model, combining free-of-tie supply with an 8% turnover rent.

39 beers on British shelves carry foreign branding and are brewed here. Where each is really made, its strength, who owns it, and which beers are what they say.

Exclusive: London mayor accuses council of ‘ignoring’ responses to a consultation

Brakspear cask ales including the flagship Brakspear Original Gravity bitter are now being brewed at Hogs Back Brewery in Tongham, Surrey. The move will lead to a significant investment in installing ...

Cornerstone Inns has filed a UKIPO defence after Greene King opposed its trade mark application amid a dispute over the Cornerstone name.

Westminster City Council will clarify terms including “vertical drinking” in its revised licensing policy following criticism from pubs, politicians and businesses.

Discover the history of the cask beer sparkler, from its Victorian invention to Yorkshire traditions and the debate over how ale should be served.

Claire Alexander warns of affluent diners booking multiple pubs, cancelling last minute and ghosting calls, leaving hospitality businesses to absorb the cost.

BrewDog, the beer company now owned by Tilray Brands Inc, has launched a new premium craft beer series named Liquid Visions. Rolling out now and through October in the off-trade, each of the four beer...

PETA stages a vegan protest outside Jeremy Clarkson’s Farmer’s Dog pub in Oxfordshire, using a lifelike ‘dog’ on a barbecue to challenge meat eating.

A documented history of beer as military supply, regulated commodity and part of everyday wartime lifeBeer and War examines how beer entered military life and the systems that placed it there. Across ...

Around 100 workers at a Scottish whisky distillery could go on strike after alleging 'appalling' treatment from management

Krishan Rajput takes an emerald Budvar bottle from a shelf and tells me how this is where his beer journey began in 1989. He explains how his family shop, Stirchley Wines & Spirits began selling a...