Ale and Beer

A Hertford-based family brewer is on the hunt for enthusiastic entrepreneurs to run one of its pubs with a difference – they do not need to invest any capital, pay rent, utilities or rates.

Source:McMullen seeks entrepreneurs to run pub – without investing any capital

Around 70% of McMullen’s tenanted pubs have been enhanced to the standard of its managed houses following a series of ‘rep and dec’ investments, tenant operations manager Gavin Mansfield has told the Publican’s Morning Advertiser’s sister title M&C Report.

Source:McMullen's enhances tenanted pubs to managed house standard

The nation’s beer lovers drank nearly 33 million more pints of local beer last year than in 2012, as independent brewers responded positively to the Chancellor’s decision to scrap the beer-duty escalator.

Source:SIBA members grow volume sales and ramp up investment

Lancashire based Seafood Pub Company has acquired a fifth pub in the north-west that will be the first of a new concept.

Source:Seafood Pub Company adds fifth Lancashire pub with rooms

In this weeks round-up of the best new beers in the UK, writer and presenter Danny Wallace gets his own brew; Californian craft brewer North Coast heads to the UK and Innis & Gunn join forces with Hinds Head barman for a brew.

Source:News of the brews: Writer Danny Wallace is the latest […]