116 drinks industry leaders have signed an open letter calling on the government to reintroduce a freeze on alcohol duty after previous plans…
116 drinks industry leaders have signed an open letter calling on the government to reintroduce a freeze on alcohol duty after previous plans…
One of the world’s largest online e-cig suppliers is making a concerted push into the UK off-trade with a range of cartridges, pens, pipes and liquids. V2 Cigs claims to be America’s largest online volume seller of e-cigs, with 1.2 million customers, and in 2013 Paul Hunt brought the brand to Britain. He is UK managing director of the firm and has built up a…
A former Heineken director has set up his own drinks company and launched a beer blended with fruit and botanicals. John Hunt, who was Heineken’s executive director of global strategy, has set up the Greyhound Drinks Company in Edinburgh and is set to launch Dunesurfer Original Desert Beer this weekend. The 2% abv bottled brew is blended with acai and goji berries, yuzu fruit, botanicals…
Batemans B Bock beat hundreds of new beers brewed across the UK to win a listing at Sainsbury’s after it was named winner of the retailer’s Great British Beer Hunt 2013. Winners of the regional heats, from Devon to the Orkney Islands, gathered at London’s Oxo Tower to hear the results. Thwaites in Lancashire has created a microbrewery within its brewery to whip up experimental…
Twenty new beers that won regional heats of Sainsbury’s Great British Beer Hunt will go on sale at the supermarket chain in September. Beer experts picked these as the best of a field of more than 100 beers across the UK during the competition this summer. They will go head-to-head for a three-week period, and the top 10 bestselling beers will make it through to…
