Virtual vicar leads annual ceremony for Hogs Back hop garden

Surrey-based Hogs Back Brewery is celebrating its annual hop blessing despite lockdown, with a virtual vicar conducting a socially distanced ceremony...

Pubs with beer gardens could reopen from 4 July

Pubs with beer gardens and other outside spaces should be among the first to reopen once the coronavirus lockdown is eased, says the British Beer & Pu...

First steps to pubs’ reopening

The Government has launched a taskforce to plan how pubs and restaurants can safely reopen. The Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strateg...

Pubs and breweries offered a new route to market with CAMRA app

CAMRA is launching a new app called Brew2You on 6 May which will allow customers to order their favourite drink from local pubs and breweries trying t...

A virtual festival to be enjoyed from home

Women On Tap Festival is all set to go fully virtual for the fourth annual event this May. “With our beloved pubs and bars closed, and with public gat...

Covid-19 delays opening of new brewhouse

Leicestershire brewer Everards has delayed the opening of its new build 200-plus capacity beer hall and brewery until the Spring of 2021. Everards Man...

The longer the lockdown the worse it is for community pubs

The longer we have to live with disruptive social measures on people’s movement the worse will be the impact on pubs. The UK’s most senior medic Chris...

Hogs Back implements social distance hop twiddling for healthy hop crop

All pubs are shut and many breweries have been mothballed but, the natural ingredients of beer keep growing. Surrey brewer Hogs Back is carrying out t...

Brewer readies for pubs to shut until Christmas

UK pubs at risk of permanent closure

Thousands of UK pubs will disappear without bailout, brewing industry warns. Thousands of pubs will close for good unless a brewing trade association...