Ale and Beer

Beer tax fraud inquiry: small brewers could face £14m hit over duty suspense

Small brewers transporting beer under duty-suspense in the UK will have to pay in excess of £14m per year if the Government does not go ahead with excluding those producing fewer than 200,000 hectolitres (HL).

Source:Beer tax fraud inquiry: small brewers could face £14m hit over duty suspense

Warning: ‘Don’t ever withhold pub rents’

Pub tenants have been warned never to refuse paying their rent, or only paying part-rent, if they feel aggrieved towards their pub company or brewer.

Source:Warning: ‘Don’t ever withhold pub rents’

Cask Ale Week set for September kick-off

This year’s Cask Ale Week will take place from 28 September to 7 October, with the strapline: ‘Only in Britain, only in pubs!’

Source:Cask Ale Week set for September kick-off

Fuller's blamed by licensee for pub's drop in trade

A licensee has blamed family brewer Fuller’s for customers leaving his pub because it is charging him more for beers brewed by the company than his previous landlord, Enterprise Inns.

Source:Fuller's blamed by licensee for pub's drop in trade

Wadworth hails better year after sales and profits rise

Wadworth, the Wiltshire brewer and pub operator, has credited a rise in own-beer sales, lower overheads and the recruitment of “good new licensees” for a rise in sales and underlying profits last year.

Source:Wadworth hails better year after sales and profits rise

Young’s is first pub company to adopt new The Mystery Dining Company online feedback system

Young’s will be the first pub company to adopt the Mystery Dining Company’s (TMDC) direct feedback system from next month.

Source:Young’s is first pub company to adopt new The Mystery Dining Company online feedback system

Bar Sport plans for further expansion

Bar Sport — the sports-focused bar brand run under franchise — plans to open three more sites over the next three months, company founder Scott Murray has told M&C Report.

Source:Bar Sport plans for further expansion

Coors Cameo in a Futurist Film

During the first 30 minutes of ”Tron: Legacy,” the forthcoming science fiction film from Walt Disney Studios, the hunky computer whiz at the center of the action struts to his refrigerator and pulls out a Coors. Yes, a Coors. Cynical moviegoers may think the screen time is a case of product placement, where marketers pay Hollywood to embed their wares into the action. Perhaps Coors – pretty much as far from futuristic as they come – was hoping the movie’s cool vibe would rub off.

Source:Coors Cameo in a Futurist Film