Tag: beer

Sport

A sporting year to get the beers in

LET’S face it, Andy Murray and some Champions League nights apart, 2013 was a quiet year for the kind of sports events that help...
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World leading – Beer on the up

Lager edges up – but it’s all thanks to brews from across the globe says international bottled beers giant PREMIUM lager sales are up marginally...
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The taste of home

MISS Scotland, Jamey Bowers, raised a glass to mark the first delivery of Homecoming Scotland 2014 beer – a commemorative craft beer produced in...
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Five on Belhaven craft trail

DUNBAR’S Belhaven Brewery is launching a new speciality craft beer range. Four beers are scheduled to be introduced this month with more launches planned through...
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Beers heading for defining moment?

WHAT exactly is craft beer? For some beer fans and makers the problem is that it’s more or less anything you want it to...
Brookfield Drinks bought and relaunched Kestrel. But it isn’t just a retro brand, the firm says it wants to rekindle a quality lager brewing scene in Britain.

Bringing the world back home

RELAUNCHED Scottish-made lager brand Kestrel is in development phase as new owner Brookfield drinks, headed up by Nigel McNally, former managing director of brewer...
Brewdog

Punk beer expansion plan sees fans buy in

CRAFT beer has been tipped by analysts as one of the sections of the beer market most likely to grow in coming years and...
Beers produced specially for women seem to have made little impact but a report from English brewer Hall & Woodhouse suggested the number of women drinking ale doubled between 2008 and 2012.

Star beers feel the squeeze

Premium lagers once swept all before them but now standard-strength brews, ciders and ales are biting back PREMIUM lager, once the fast growing darling of...
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Drink of the nest

TAKE-HOME beer is big business but sales value has been slipping over the last year. Research specialist Kantar Worldpanel found that spend on off-trade take-home...
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Beer brand flies back with a Scottish angle

IT’S been a big year for lager brand Kestrel. The beer, which had been popular and widely distributed in the 1980s and 1990s, was relaunched...
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Lager keeps it sweet

ONE in every three items bought in a c-store is a long alcoholic drink. And within that category, beer is worth over £3.5bn a...
Norman Sinclair, centre, MD of Sinclair Breweries, picks up Orkney Dark Island Reserve’s Scotland Food and Drink Excellence Award.

Ale world leaders – Craft beer focus

SCOTLAND’S craft and small and medium-sized brewing scene has been transformed in recent years. Not only have many of our most interesting brewing companies survived...
Flavour looks like being flavour of the months ahead as two of Britain’s biggest beer firms offer drinkers some new tastes over summer. Molson Coors says its Carling Zest with a hint of natural citrus was such a success last summer that it has since been added to the portfolio permanently. This year it has a ginger-flavoured version of the beer as a special limited edition. Heineken’s new Radler combines Foster’s Lager with cloudy lemon.

Drinking over lemons – Alcoholic beverages

BEER has come under considerable pressure from other long drinks in recent years, including cider and new styles of flavoured alcoholic beverages, premixes and...

Kingfisher nests with Heineken

STARTING this autumn, Heineken will take over the brewing of Kingfisher beer in the UK. The German giant will also handle the Indian brand’s...
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