Tag: beer
A premium boom
GREENE King is predicting an exciting year for sport with RBS Six Nations rugby this month, the Rugby World Cup in the autumn and...
World beers for big events
SELLING world beers during the Rugby World Cup will be one way to grab sales opportunities in 2015, according to Carlsberg.
Parminder Walia, senior category...
Joining the craft
FORMER prime minister Gordon Brown bounced back on to the political scene recently.
But, if historians in the future debate his impact on the...
Keeping craft simple
FOR John Mercer, marketing manager of Shetland’s Lerwick Brewery, the craft beer revolution has certainly arrived.
“At Lerwick Brewery, we’re seeing demand for our three...
The spirit is willing
BEER and cider giant Heineken reckons the new spirit beers sub-category could be worth £200m by 2016.
The firm says its beer in the segment,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
