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Steel City brewer scoops top title
Jim Rangeley, Lead Brewer at Abbeydale, the City’s oldest brewery was recently named as Brewer of the Year at the 2024 Brewers Choice Awards. Jim was...
Beer duty cut in pubs will create jobs
Reducing the tax paid on draught beer destined for the pub could create more than 8,000 extra jobs and result in a ÂŁ265m boost for the national econom...
Prepare to engage the enemy
There is a moment in the very wonderful film Star Trek: First Contact when Captain Picard picks up his phaser rifle and declares, with all the Shakesp...
Top ratings for pubco’s cask pubs
More than 1,100 Admiral Tavern pubs have achieved a significant milestone by achieving four or five-star Cask Marque’s ratings, following their annual...
Pale ale pizza crust
A pizzaiolo is a chef specially trained to make pizzas. I spent several years of my career training pizzaiolos across the country and cannot begin to...
Coming up for air
The arrival of Fuller’s Vintage Ale is a cause for celebration, the beer lovers’ equivalent of the latest Bordeaux wine from France. Vintage Ale is li...
Our top guide shows power of protecting pubs
CAMRA’s Good Beer Guide – the UK’s best-selling beer and pub guide – is celebrating its 52nd edition with not one but two covers, featuring two of the...
CAMRA calls for fairer business rates for pubs
The Campaign has repeated its call for a Budget beer duty cut and fairer business rates for pubs following a think tank report that found locals deliv...
Walking the hop walk
It’s no secret, I’m excited about British hops. Being invited to one of the Charles Faram hop walks to get up close and personal with the farms at har...
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Working as a sub editor at the Guardian around the time web stories started to become very popular – and the newspaper was losing £1m a week as print...
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