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The latest from the UK craft drinks trade press

Beer8 Apr 2026

#216 | A Love of Local

Meet Red Kellie. Red is joint owner and Head Brewer of the First & Last Brewery. They are a family run brewery, taproom and event space situated in rural Northumberland. The brewery doubles as a commu…

Brewers Journal

Beer8 Apr 2026

Damm celebrates 150th anniversary with limited edition designs

Damnn has is revealed a limited-edition range of 150-year Estrella Damm can and bottle designs available in the UK and international markets, marking the first UK celebration of the brand’s landmark 1…

Brewers Journal

Beer8 Apr 2026

Dreaming of You — Colbier Brew Co. in Bootle, Merseyside

I’m frantically searching the internet, flipping between Instagram profiles of local pubs and beer review app Untappd. Why? Well. The release of Colbier Brew Co.’s first white stout, Falsetto, has jus…

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BrewWho

Beer7 Apr 2026

ekeg owner acquires Keg Logistics

ekeg’s leadership team and parent company, EVAARO (owned by MML Capital), have announced the acquisition of Keg Logistics across the UKI, US and Canada. The acquisition brings together two great compl…

Brewers Journal

Beer7 Apr 2026

Use asset management to cut costs and boost reliability

Asset management gives breweries full visibility into equipment and operations to enable scalable, reliable production, explain the team at Brightly Software. For breweries, especially ones producing…

Brewers Journal

Beer7 Apr 2026

Weighing business toasts decade milestone

Minebea Intec, which offers a range of weighing technology for the brewing industry, is marking ten years since relocating to its UK head office in Birmingham. Over the last decade, the manufacturer o…

Brewers Journal

Beer2 Apr 2026

Food and drink sector continuing to invest

UK food and drink businesses are investing substantially in innovation and product development to remain competitive and secure their future in an increasingly challenging market. The finding is accor…

Brewers Journal

BrewWho

Trade1 Apr 2026

SIBA Homebrew Beer Awards 2026: Winner Update

Thank you to everyone that entered the homebrewers competition 2026. We had many excellent entries this year for our single malt single hop (SMaSH) competition using the CF243 experimental hop. The SI…

SIBA

Wine1 Apr 2026

Ten Yorkshire Vineyards Launch Yorkshire Wine Trail

Ten vineyards have come together to create the trail - Bay Vineyard, Carlton Towers, Goose Beck, Helme Edge, Holmfirth, Knotfield, Laurel Vines, Leventhorpe, Towthorpe and Yorkshire Heart, covering al…

WineGB

Beer1 Apr 2026

#215 | Defining West Coast Pils

Since being founded by Adam Henderson in 2020, Azvex Brewing Company has gone on to become of the UK’s most respected producers of hop-forward pale ales and IPAs, fruited sours, and imperial stouts. A…

Brewers Journal

Beer1 Apr 2026

Hammerton Brewery claims global first with ‘Pure White’ stout

Hammerton Brewery is claiming a global first with its revolutionary ‘Pure White’ Stout innovation. Following months of dedicated research and development, Hammerton Brewery is stepping into the spotli…

Brewers Journal

BrewWho

Trade1 Apr 2026

New right to a guest beer is improving trade for Scotland’s pub tenants who are aware of it, but others are being discouraged from applying says new report

While Scottish pub tenants have a low awareness of their new right to stock a guest beer, those that are aware find it is improving trade and useful to their businesses. However, some pub tenants are…

SIBA

Beer1 Apr 2026

A Poetic Act — Zoigl, the Schafferhof, and the Making of Place

Communal brewhouses with gear-and-pully mash tuns. Brewing rights that stretch back to the Middle Ages. Wood-fired brew kettles and coolships. All this alone is enough to make Zoigl utterly unique. Bu…

Pellicle Magazine

Wine31 Mar 2026

Explained: What are grapevine clones?

Our Explained series looks at Clones. What are they? How do I choose the right clone?

The Vine House

Beer31 Mar 2026

A walk on the wild side | First & Last Brewery

Bound by a love of fermentation and foraged ingredients, First & Last Brewery is inspired by the wild, untamed landscape and dark skies of northumberland. Founded by Red and Sam Kellie in 2016, the du…

Brewers Journal

Beer31 Mar 2026

Vault City teams up with baker on zero-waste sours

Vault City have teamed up with Leith bakery Babyfaced Baker to create two limited-edition sour beers brewed using surplus croissant pastry that would otherwise go unused. The collaboration with Babyfa…

Brewers Journal

Wine30 Mar 2026

WineGB Accelerates Sustainability Drive with Relaunch of National Certification for UK Wine

WineGB has announced the relaunch of Sustainable Wines of Great Britain (SWGB), its national independently audited sustainability certification scheme, reinforcing the organisation’s commitment to emb…

WineGB

Beer27 Mar 2026

The 25,000+ Highest-Rated Drinks, According to Untappd

March can mean many things: 🌷The first sign of spring ⚾The first crack of the bat as baseball season begins ⛹️‍♀️The first tingle of hearts breaking with broken NCAA March Madness brackets. But in ou…

Hop Culture

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Beer27 Mar 2026

Damm expands fridge offering

Damm is expanding its fridge pack offering with the addition of Estrella Damm 0.0% and Damm Lemon arriving in UK retail this spring. Launching at Morrisons initially, this will see the retailer offer…

Brewers Journal

Beer27 Mar 2026

David Bailey's Just Beer Things #31 — Bar Stances

*** Thank you for reading Pellicle Magazine! We’re able to pay all of our contributors, including David, a fair rate thanks to the kind support of our Patreon subscribers. If you believe in high quali…

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Beer26 Mar 2026

Artificial Intelligence’s role in sales

Artificial Intelligence (AI) in sales is the process of taking the knowledge held within your sales data and enhancing it using computer algorithms. This might take the form of logic, if-then rules, d…

Brewers Journal

Beer26 Mar 2026

New packaging aims to support sustainability goals

Croxsons has launched an innovative glass packaging solution that balances “sustainability and practicality in glass bottle and jar design”. Rightweight, the company said, works by engineering packagi…

Brewers Journal

Beer25 Mar 2026

#214 | Andrew Barnett, Barney’s Beer

Meet Andrew Barnett. Andrew is the founder of Edinburgh’s Barney’s Beer. He started his career in brewing aged 16 as a lab assistant at the recently defunct Banks’s brewery in Wolverhampton before doi…

Brewers Journal

Trade25 Mar 2026

Where the independent brewing industry does business: A look at the biggest BeerX ever

The British beer industry like many others is not without its struggles; far too many pubs are closing, breweries are struggling to remain profitable and drinkers are bemoaning the rising price of a p…

SIBA

Beer25 Mar 2026

Sellar launches logistics arm

Sellar, the online drinks distribution platform, has formally announced the launch of its physical distribution operation. The company is operating a pilot that has been running quietly since December…

Brewers Journal

Wine25 Mar 2026

WINEGB CELEBRATES THE START OF THE GROWING SEASON WITH PUBLICATION OF 2025 HARVEST REPORT AND NEW GREEN BOOK

As vineyards across the British Isles celebrate the start of the growing season, WineGB has published two of its annual essential key guides: the 2025 Harvest Report and the new and revised 2026 Green…

WineGB

Beer25 Mar 2026

Never Break the Chain — Chiltern Brewery and Bodger’s Barley Wine

A “bodger” today means someone who does a shoddy job, cuts all available corners, takes the money and runs. But centuries ago, in rural Buckinghamshire, it meant something quite different. It referred…

Pellicle Magazine

Beer24 Mar 2026

Harviestoun Brewery expands

Award-winning independent Scottish craft brewer Harviestoun is scaling for growth with the first phase of a strategic investment programme underway at its Alva brewery, including new warehouse and off…

Brewers Journal

Trade20 Mar 2026

UK’s best Indie Beers revealed in historic night for British brewing

The results are in for the UK’s biggest beer competition, with three breweries taking the Overall Gold across the Cask, Keg, and Bottle/Can competitions – with winners from the UK now set to go on and…

SIBA

Beer20 Mar 2026

Fell Brewery win Green Growth Award

Fell Brewery, the independent brewery based in Cumbria, has won a Green Growth Award, a national competition recognising UK small businesses leading the way in using sustainability to innovate and dri…

Brewers Journal

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