Posts by: Timothy Hampson
Women In Beer Festival is back
After two years hiatus, the Edinburgh based “women who beer group” Beers Without Beards is organising the second edition of its Women In Beer Festival...
Whisky beer takes gold
Loch Lomond Brewery is awarded the Overall Champion Cask Gold in the SIBA Scotland Independent Beer Awards 2022. The brewery’s 12 per cent Scotch Ale...
Urgent government action needed to save pubs and breweries
Beer drinkers, pub-goers and brewers are calling for urgent government action to reduce the effect of crippling energy bills on the sector. CAMRA and...
Sheps expands north of the river
Three coastal Essex pubs have been taken over by Shepherd Neame. The Faversham, Kent brewer has bought three popular freehold pubs – the Bellhouse in...
CAMRA reveals UK’s top 16 pubs
The best pubs in the UK have been announced as part of CAMRA’s National Pub of the Year (POTY) competition. The 16 regional finalists will now have a...
Pubs help struggling families back to school
Pubs in the North-West are setting up school uniform banks following a call to help parents struggling as families prepare to go back to school. Miche...
Community cafe for CAMRA award winner
CAMRA’s current holder of its pub saving award, the Blue Bell in Stoke Ferry, Norfolk, has opened a community café to provide a place for locals to me...
Brewer’s £130,000 food bank boost
Food banks and clubs in the North-West have been given a massive boost thanks to ÂŁ130,000 raised in Joseph Holt pubs across the region. The money has...
Win double for home brewer
A Sheffield homebrewer is celebrating at last after his beer won a gold award for stouts and porters. Nathan Pratt, (above left) of the Sheffield Home...
Push for more guest beers in pubs
Britain’s smaller brewers are calling on the government to allow  more pubs to sell their  beers. The Society of Independent Brewers (SIBA) has called...
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