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The beer press
August 2026
BBPA: Hospitality needs to maintain flexibility for employees
Proposed employment changes could create major new costs for the beer and pub sector, the British Beer and Pub Association has warned. It has urged governmen...
Read the pieceRead at Beer Today →News, nuggets and longreads 22 August 2026: Tales from the Folly
Every Saturday we round up the best writing about beer from the past week. This time, we’ve got bottle shops, pickle beer and cocktail lounges. First, some n...
Read the pieceRead at Boak & Bailey →Former Stone Escondido Site Faces 220 Cuts as Sapporo Winds Down Brewery's Operations
Sapporo USA will lay off 58 Stone Brewing workers across three California facilities effective October 19, according to an August 19 Worker Adjustment and Re...
Read the pieceRead at Brewbound →Press Clips: Increased Brewery Visits, A New Mexico Hermit-Crabbing and Sierra Nevada Agua Azul Spiked Agave Seltzer
Check out news items initially reported in the Brewbound Insider Newsletter August 20-21, including headlines from the Brewers Association, Constellation Bra...
Read the pieceRead at Brewbound →Weekend of events to raise awareness of rare cancer
The Old Crown, in Great Bookham, Surrey, will be hosting a charity fundraising weekend over the August Bank Holiday in support of local charity, Billy's Batt...
Read the pieceRead at Beer Today →Gallup Poll: Record Low Respondents Believe They ‘Drink Too Much;’ Total Drinkers Unchanged from 2025
Gallup’s highly anticipated report on consumers’ drinking habits was released Thursday, and like most years, the survey results’ underlying trends depend on...
Read the pieceRead at Brewbound →BrewDog unveils festive offering
BrewDog, which is owned by Tilray Brands, has unveiled its 2026 Advent Calendar, which features a number of limited-release beers. The 24-day countdown bring...
Read the pieceRead at The Brewers Journal →Purbeck Cider Company's Apple Day returns
Purbeck Cider Company is inviting consumers to get closer to the cider-making process next month, with the return of its annual Apple Day on Saturday, 12th S...
Read the pieceRead at Beer Today →Kit manufacturer boosts Indian presence
Krones has strengthened its presence in what it calls "one of the world's most important growth markets" for food and drink with the opening of a new plant i...
Read the pieceRead at The Brewers Journal →Soaring demand for low-carb, low-calorie beer at Anheuser-Busch
Anheuser-Busch has announced a $13million (£9.5million) investment in its Baldwinsville, New York facility to help cater for growing demand for its Michelob...
Read the pieceRead at The Brewers Journal →Sierra Nevada rolls-out modern take on radler
Sierra Nevada, the respected US brewery, has launched a new beer line that taps into consumer demand for both flavour and moderation. Its new beer soda line,...
Read the pieceRead at The Brewers Journal →Boston Beer CFO Diego Reynoso to Exit; Formal Search Launched for Replacement
Boston Beer Company CFO and treasurer Diego Reynoso is leaving the company a year after it awarded him a $1.2 million stock retention bonus, according to an...
Read the pieceRead at Brewbound →NIQ: RTDs Drive 38% of Bev-Alc Innovation Dollars Despite Fewer Items
RTD brands are doing disproportionate work in bev-alc innovation – and the brands investing in innovation are twice as likely to grow their overall business,...
Read the pieceRead at Brewbound →Great Lakes Bets on Seasonal Variety Packs to Fuel 2026 Growth
Great Lakes Brewing is cruising into Oktoberfest season with wind in the sails of its famed seasonal franchise. The Cleveland, Ohio-based craft brewery strea...
Read the pieceRead at Brewbound →Dive Into Innovation With BevNET CPG Media’s Interactive Launch Explorer
Welcome to BevNET CPG Media’s exclusive insights package, a unique blend of tools and reported analysis designed to give the BevNET, Nosh, and Brewbound audi...
Read the pieceRead at Brewbound →Beer Loses Summer Traction as Bev-Alc Slump Deepens in Weekly NIQ Off-Premise Scans
August started with accelerated year-over-year (YoY) bev-alc losses, according to the latest weekly scans report from market research firm NIQ.
Read the pieceRead at Brewbound →News in brief: Shepherd Neame, Carlsberg, LTC, Tilray Brands, and more…
A round-up of stories and snippets from brewing and hospitality, and the latest business news in brief Shepherd Neame has re-opened The Duke of York, in Sout...
Read the pieceRead at Beer Today →Brewery to help reinvent London staple
Kent-based Shepherd Neame is set to open a new venue beneath one of the City of London’s most historic pubs, the Jamaica Wine House. The project, which is be...
Read the pieceRead at The Brewers Journal →Alcohol-free beers boost Carlsberg results
Fifteen percent growth in Western Europe is not a fad, it is a habit forming, and it is forming around the brands that can put a fridge in every shop.
Our takeRead our take →Homebrew Hero | Andrew Hayward
A brewery that toasted its 10th anniversary last autumn, Thames Side Brewery in Staines-upon-Thames is a local institution. But long before starting the cele...
Read the pieceRead at The Brewers Journal →Releases round-up: Crafty Devil, Rooster's, Vocation, and more…
New beer launches and collaborations, in store, on bars, and online, from brewers around the UK. Crafty Devil have collaborated with retailer Craft Republic...
Read the pieceRead at Beer Today →Landmark American craft beers recognised
Beers from Russian River Brewing Company, Alaskan Brewing Co, Goose Island and Allagash have been announced as beverages among those to be inducted into The...
Read the pieceRead at The Brewers Journal →Deposit return scheme needs UK-wide consistency, says SIBA
Four sets of rules on one island is a tax on being small, and the rest of Europe is about to meet the same problem country by country.
Our takeRead our take →Running Down the Avenue — Stirchley Wines & Spirits in Birmingham
A shop trading since 1979 with six hundred beers on the shelf is a distribution network that nobody set out to build.
Our takeRead our take →Record demand to take on Greene King pubs
Greene King Pub Partners, the leased, tenanted and franchise business of Greene King, has reported record applications from prospective pub operators and a s...
Read the pieceRead at Beer Today →Huge World Beer Awards success for Lindemans
Lindemans Brewery enjoyed great success at this year's World Beer Awards, picking up two world’s bests, three country winner titles, and three gold, two silv...
Read the pieceRead at Beer Today →Outside the bubble: “Pubs don't deserve special treatment”
It’s a given, isn’t it, that pubs are a good thing and deserve protection? Well, it turns out that many people disagree. At the weekend the UK Government ann...
Read the pieceRead at Boak & Bailey →Instead of a newsletter for August 2026… Cask ale in the hottest of summers
Longer, hotter summers are a serious existential challenge to cask ale – a product which already has its fair share of problems. Last year we wrote about the...
Read the pieceRead at Boak & Bailey →News, nuggets and longreads 15 August 2026: Saturday Night and Sunday Morning
Every Saturday we round up the best writing about beer from the past week. This time, we’ve got shipwrecks, dive bars and Japan. First, by way of news, there...
Read the pieceRead at Boak & Bailey →Il birrificio artigianale Styles vende 2 chiller di raffreddamento
Causa ampliamento cantina, il birrificio artigianale Styles vende 2 chiller di raffreddamento a 4 unità cadauno. Ogni chiller può raffreddare nettamente fino...
Read the pieceRead at Cronache di Birra →These Days of Salt and Fog — How Edinburgh’s Timberyard Reinvented the Restaurant Wine List
In a warehouse building on The Shore in Leith there is a natural wine bar called Haze. Its name is appropriate, both for the unfiltered wines it sells and th...
Read the pieceRead at Pellicle →Vendesi birrificio completo con sala cottura da 40 hl (in blocco o in parti)
Abbiamo intenzione di cedere un birrificio con sala da cottura da 40 hl, 3 tini, con cantina da 1200 hl, completo di linea di imbottigliamento con depalizzat...
Read the pieceRead at Cronache di Birra →Some good bar staffing we have seen
We’ve seen some great professional behaviour from the staff in pubs lately, from dealing with dodgy pints to treating customers with kindness. We’ve long sai...
Read the pieceRead at Boak & Bailey →Birrificio in provincia di Varese cerca una figura di assistente birraio e cantiniere
Per il nostro birrificio artigianale sito in provincia di Varese, cerchiamo una figura dinamica e motivata per ricoprire il ruolo di Assistente Birraio e can...
Read the pieceRead at Cronache di Birra →A Science and an Art — Maisel’s Weisse Alkoholfrei
Upon arriving at Maisel’s Brauerei in Bayreuth, Franconia, it becomes immediately clear that this is not your typical Bavarian brewery. A huge steel sculptur...
Read the pieceRead at Pellicle →30 anni di birra artigianale, migliaia di volti: nasce il murale che racconta la rivoluzione craft italiana
Le celebrazioni per i trent'anni della birra artigianale italiana si arricchiscono di un'iniziativa dal forte valore simbolico. È infatti partito un progetto...
Read the pieceRead at Cronache di Birra →Giovane tecnico birraio qualificato (stage in Altavia) cerca opportunità lavorativa – Disponibile al trasferimento
Buongiorno a tutti, mi chiamo Alessandro Borchio, ho 20 anni, vengo da Pallare (SV) e ho recentemente conseguito la qualifica di Tecnico e degustatore birrai...
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