Styles galore coming out of Beerblefish Brewing Co.

It might be operating out of a very modest industrial unit in North London but Beerblefish Brewing Co. pumps out an incredible array of regular beers and seasonals straddling myriad styles from around the globe. Having initially experimented with making a barley wine at the former Ubrew facility in Bermondsey the brewing bug took hold…

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Rental demands holding pubs back from reopening

Rental demands from landlords to leisure and hospitality businesses is causing grief for many including The Queen’s Head in King’s Cross that is in the eye of the storm as it is suffering from a severe loss of tourists and office workers. Many pubs and bars along with other hospitality businesses are frustrated by the…

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Beer Hawk (B2B) created on foundations of The Bottle Shop

From the remnants of the sadly failed The Bottle Shop business has emerged a new ABI-owned operation, Beer Hawk (B2B), which has the objective of bringing some professionalism to the craft beer industry in the UK. This is the aim of The Bottle Shop founder Andrew Morgan who is now head of Beer Hawk (B2B)…

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Stools are cool

I had the privilege of being asked my views last year on what elements I’d like to incorporate into my local pub. London brewer Fuller’s had recently acquired a lovely Victorian boozer, The Great Northern Railway Tavern, which it intended to restore to its former glory. Rather than rushing into anything, Fuller’s sensibly canvassed some…

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Camden Town sitting comfortably with brewery takeovers

The days of big brewers taking over smaller ones and ruining them are over because there is now too much at stake, argues Jasper Cuppaidge, founder of Camden Town Brewery, which is owned by AB InBev. Many beer drinkers will disagree with this view but I suspect they will simply have to put up with…

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Don’t change Draft House

        For some people among the beer cognoscenti, the Draft House chain of craft beer bars would never be regarded as the coolest places in town because they would always be able to point to quirkier places with more esoteric beer selections. This does these bars a great disservice because when they…

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