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Last year I was part of a team that launched the first ever Beer Marketing Awards in the UK. The competition, and the event, was a great success, and the awards are now open for a second year. There are two main ideas and ambitions behind the awards: Rightly, there are a great many awards for beer quality. That's as it should be. But th ...

Last week, my latest column for the Publican's Morning Advertiser focused on the response to craft beer by the giant, global brewing corporations that dominate the beer market. It was inspired by a new project at Guinness which has produced some beers I consider to be very good indeed. I suggested that maybe we're getting to the end of the usef ...

So, the final beer in the five-part best-of list for 2015 is here – a perfect example of a brewery doing what they have come to do best, and then pushing it just that little bit further. It proves – once and again – how that blend of experience and experimentation result in some truly ... The post Best new beers of 2015&hellip ...

The next in the lineup of best new British beers of 2015 has to have been one of the more unlikely combinations of ingredients and location produced this year. A mango IPA from Newcastle? Oh yes… Mango IPA (6.3%) Almasty Brew Co, Newcastle (keg, November) Be-fruited India Pale Ale is something of a natural progression ... The post Be ...

We’re now over the halfway point of the sixth annual running of the best new British beers of the year feature, with this, the third pick. So far, we’ve had a Japanese-inspired sake-style beer from Somerset, and a hop-forward wheat beer from Manchester. Next up, we head southwards to east London, and find the barrel-aged ... The pos ...

Following the initial nomination of Wild Beer Co Yadōkai yesterday, the annual look back at the most memorable new British beers continues. There are four other places to fill in the list, and for the next choice, we head off northwards from the plains of Somerset to the city of Manchester. There, a stone’s throw ... The post Best Ne ...

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The first Friday in December is often one of my worst hangovers of the year, because the first Thursday evening in December is the night of the British Guild of Beer Writers Annual Awards. Last night, I was delighted to pick up gold in the category 'Best Beer Communicator Online' for this blog. And also genuinely surprised. As you may hav ...

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Is it me, or are brewers releasing far more beers these days than they used to? I know starting a blog post with that kind of question makes me sound like an old timer rattling his cane from his easy chair, but there you go. And I’ve got no evidence with which to back this ... The post Mix It Up appeared first on The BeerCast.