Innis & Gunn has celebrated its 10th birthday by launching an unoaked lager in the on-trade. Available on draught  Innis & Gunn Lager (4.6% ABV) uses native British ingredients with some Innis & Gunn flourishes.  It’s the first time the independent brewer has launched an unoaked beer under its umbrella brand, and will be the first release [...]

Tennent Caledonian has announced that it will not increase the wholesale selling price of its leading brands – Tennent’s Lager, Caledonia Best and Magners Golden Draught – for Scotland’s free on-trade in 2013. The news comes only weeks some of the brewers major competitors revealed their price rises. This decision will provide a welcome financial [...]

Bartenders across the UK are being warned against the use of liquid nitrogen in cocktails, following an incident at the weekend. Lancaster teenager, Gaby Scanlon, was rushed to hospital with a perforated stomach after drinking a cocktail containing liquid nitrogen to celebrate her 18th birthday. An emergency operation meant that she had to have her [...]

San Miguel is to launch its first major brand extension in the UK with Miguel Fresca. This new lager, which they suggest serving with a wedge of lime, has been developed as the result of a strategic partnership between Carlsberg UK and Mahou-San Miguel of Spain. The lager which comes in at an ABV of [...]

The new UK ‘Beer Barometer’ shows pub beer sales slipped 3.4% in 2011, but off trade sales were down 3.7% The figures, published by the British Beer & Pub Association, also revealed that the fall in beer sales has slowed. The fall in pub sales of 3.4% was the slowest rate of decline since 2004. [...]

Where are we heading? the future will be here before we know it, so we decided to ask some of the movers and shakers of the industry to look into their crystal balls to see where we will be and what we’ll be doing in five years time. susan young deciphers their mystic predictions. In [...]