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Click on the headlines below for further details of each news story.News to pass on? getintouch@insidebeer.com May 2013 Woodforde's Unveils New Labels Sambrook's Helps the Bees Fuller's Imports Newly-Released Trappist Ale Cains Suspends Brewing Two New Beers for M&S Range Last US State Legalizes Home Brewing Hampshire Brewery to Build Pub Estate Shep's Recreates Brilliant Ale Pub Closures Rise to 26 a Week Brakspear Beer Returns to Henley Brains Expands Craft Brewery Booths Celebrates Festival with Limited Edition Beer April 2013 Brewers Support VAT Cut to Create Jobs Nearly 50 Million Fewer Pints Sold in UK Pubs Fuller's Adopts New Bottle Brooklyn's Dive Bar Hits Britain Thwaites Marks Dambusters Anniversary with Charity Link International Brewing Champions Revealed Marston's and Shipyard Collaborate Cains Plans Redevelopment to Save Brewery Brewer Retires after 44 Years Firkin Founder Back in Brewing IBC 2013 Open for Entries Boston Beer Heads US Craft Beer League Table Innis & Gunn Releases Un-oaked Lager Wells Launches Dogfish Collaboration New Chief Executive for Fuller's March 2013 Lacons Revival Boosts Norwich City of Ale London Brewers Festival Announced for May Edinburgh's 30 Days of IPA Sharp's Seasonal Breaks the Ice A New US Craft Brewery Opens Every Day Car Club is CAMRA's National Champion Mississippi Legalizes Home Brewing Gloucestershire Cricket Deal for St Austell Woodforde's Named SIBA Business of the Year Beer Duty Escalator Scrapped Chiltern Breaks Pump Clip Mould SIBA Presents Lifetime Achievement Awards Shep's Signs Up Comedy Duo Ambassadors Butcombe Offers Street View Brewery Tour Lamb, Cairngorm and Quantock are SIBA Champions Robinson's Launches Iron Maiden Beer St Austell Brings Back Cornish Stout Buy Some Beer, Get Some Music International Brewers for Wetherspoon Festival Brooklyn Hits the London Streets Chiltern Releases Oak-Aged Bodgers Reserve WharfeBank Exports to Spain Thornbridge Home-Brew Winner Announced February 2013 Local Beer Booming Baladin is Italy's Brewery of the Year St Austell Sponsors Somerset Cricket Sharp's Latest Connoisseur Collection Unveiled Thornbridge Collaborates with Sierra Nevada International Brewing Awards Medallists Announced Sales Up at Purity Former Hardware Store is CAMRA's Top Pub Robinson's Launches Dining Beers with Celebrity Chef Beer Retailers of the Year Announced Inveralmond Invests in Keg January 2013 Budvar Yeast Beer Goes UnfilteredFuggle is Top of the HopsSainsbury's 2013 Beer Hunt LaunchedEngland Cricketer Brews Castle Rock StoutUK Beer Sales Still FallingSt Austell Takes Over WholesalerSt Peter's Launches a LagerWork Begins on New Purity BrewhouseCAMRA Kicks Off Club of the Year SearchElland Beer is Winter Champion for Second TimeBrewDog's New Brewery Officially OpenedBurton Hosts International Beer FestivalFamily Brewers Invest £450 million in Pubs and BreweriesFuller's Book of JokesJohn Smith's Gets Weaker – and More ExpensiveMolson Coors Buys Franciscan WellWadworth Launches Brewers' CreationsGovernment Gets Tough on Pub CompaniesFamily Brewers' Cask Sales RiseCask Ale Week AnnouncedThornbridge Releases Beer and Food Book December 2012 NCIS: MashamHop Boss Steps DownUS Craft Brewing Tackles 'Crafty' Big Company Brews Mass Lobby Targets MPs Brains IPA Challenge Winner Named Thwaites Invests in Wainwright Best Beer Writing Rewarded New Website Promotes Pennine Breweries November 2012 Another UK Hop First for Oakham CAMRA Announces Pub of the Year Finalists Fuller's Limited-run Cask Ale Batemans Revives Barley Wine New Brewery for Truman's One Pub a Week Becomes a Supermarket Otley's Golden Ticket Badger's Collector's Ale Bristol's Twelve Stouts of Christmas First Beer Showcase for New British Hop Government Challenged to be Proud of British Beer New Qualification for Brewers Duty Pressure Maintained Pub Design Champions Revealed Marston's Supports Armistice Memorial Merger Planned for Scottish Breweries MPs Demand End to Beer Duty Escalator Pressure Grows on Government as Pub Closures Increase October 2012 Shep's Deciphers the Past Australian Brewers Honoured Second Home Brew Challenge for Thornbridge and Nicholson's Ex Thornbridge Brewer Takes Over William Worthington UK Beer Sales Continue to Fall Marston's Invests in New Bottling Facility Jennings Searches for World's Biggest Liar Robinson's elbow Beer Boost for Oxfam Rare Bottle-conditioned Beer from Badger US Brewery Trades Pints for Votes Molson Coors Brewer Joins Hogs Back Dorset Appoints New Brewer Wholesaler Ceases Trading Batemans Triumphs in Sainsbury's Beer Hunt New UK Boss for Molson Coors New Chairman for Family Brewers Oakham Takes on Krombacher Beer Wholesaler in Administration Batemans Goes for Gold Bath Ales Plans Brew Pub September 2012 Cask Sales on the Up Record Number of Overseas Brewers for Wetherspoon Festival Wells & Young's Boss Branches Out One-off Protz Beer Now in Bottle Cathedral to Host Its Own Beer Festival Beer Duty Petition Hits Target Celebrations Planned for Pilsner's Birthday Five-star Rating for New Orkney Visitor Centre Green Hop Beer Festival for Sheffield Saltaire Takes 'Pride in Pub Life' Good Beer Guide Celebrates a Thousand Breweries New Name for Timothy Taylor Beer Harveys' Prince Wins International Beer Challenge Cumbrian Brewers All Together Chiltern's Good Beer Guide Celebration Ale Pop-Up Danish Bar for London SIBA Plans Beer Showcase Fuller's New Bottled Beer Trio White House Beer Secrets Exposed Online New Zealand Craft Beer on the Rise August 2012 Greene King Adds a Porter Revealed: White House Has Own Brewery Hardknott Secures Expansion Funding Acorn Invests to Meet Demand Duty Hike Kills Off Champion Beer New Look for Hogs Back Beers US Craft Beer Still Growing Coniston Claims Champion Beer Crown – Again Rare Outing for Greene King 5X First American Craft Beer Returns Robinson's Pop-up Pub for Manchester Otley Moves to Larger Site Chiltern's Charity Brew Brains Launches Wheat Beer July 2012 Jubilee and Euros Fail to Lift UK Beer Sales Worldwide Success in International Beer Challenge Everards Goes Greek Florence Gains Independence Hertfordshire Pub is Fuller's Top Beer Keeper Bath Ales Expands – Again New Trappist Beer on Sale in the UK Historic Brewery Marketing Collection Finds a Home Budvar UK Trademark Upheld New Brewhouse for Wye Valley Thornbridge Takes Punch Lease Budvar Seeks Yeast Beer 'A Team' Pliny the Elder Named Best US Beer – Again Cask Sam Adams for Independence Day June 2012 Hydes Identifies New Brewery Site Wye Valley Seeks 'Dorothy for a Day' Hall & Woodhouse Keeps Britain Tidy Thwaites Launches Customer Brewing Contest Camden Turns Back the Clock for Olympics Second London Pub for Harveys Hall & Woodhouse Celebrates New Brewhouse Opening Historic Mild Axed Fuller's Inspired by US Craft Brewers Mid Wales Beer is CAMRA Champion England Tops Euro 2012 Beer Tax Table Expanding BrewDog Recruits Tributes Paid to Butcombe Founder Fuller's to Stock Veltins on Draught Otley's Challenge for Grape and Grain May 2012 Borders Producers Branch Out Chiltern Celebrates Brewsters' Beers Beer Academy Plans Welsh Beer Festival Punch Showcases SIBA Winners Sharp's Offers Connoisseur's Choice Heasman is MPs' Brewer of the Year Evan Evans Beer Tasters Appointed Brewing World Mourns Fat Cat Brewer Hook Norton Gets a Make Over New Head Brewer for Red Squirrel Thwaites Head Brewer Retires BrewDog Takes a Bite out of Diageo English Abbey Creates Own Beer Lovibonds Strikes Gold at World Beer Cup Historic Cardiff Pub Finds Museum Home Dorset Brewery Adopts Second NameNew Look for Rooster'sWetherspoon to Open 40 More PubsNew Bath Pubs for Thornbridge and Abbey AlesBlur Star Turns BrewerLancaster Rolls Out the Barrel April 2012Daas Takes Gluten-Free HonoursBox Steam Invests in PromotionHaircuts on Menu at St Austell PubCAMRA Push for London Pubs and BeerFordham Backs UK Beach Volleyball StarsThwaites Partners Prospect Brewery in Pub DealPub Beer Sales Fall AgainAnother New Brewery for LondonSambrook's ExpandsFamily Brewers Report Strong SalesAmerica's Biggest Breweries RevealedAB-InBev Takes Caribbean MarketRobinson's New Look PumpclipsDirectors Has a Make OverSt Austell Gets FruityCharlie Sheen is New Face of 0% BeerNo Cask Beer at OlympicsUS Craft Beer Exports Race AheadCollectors' Fair Moves to Peterborough FestivalBeer Menu at The Cinnamon ClubNew TV Campaign for BombardierChiltern's Jubilee SparklerPedigree Celebrates 60 with Retro BottleMolson Coors Buys StarBev Bolton Brewery Honours Soccer Legend March 2012St Austell Releases Jubilee Champagne BeerBrewers’ Success at The Publican Awards IBC 2012 Open for EntriesFuller's Opens Britain's Biggest Station PubUS Breweries Top 2,000 Everards Opens Latest 'Project William' PubBrains Remains Official Ale of Welsh RugbyWelsh Government Invests in Rural PubsGreene King Adds IPA ExtensionsRock Band’s Beer Raises £11,000 for OxfamDuty Escalator Stays in Place'Smart' New Glassware for FreedomCAMRA Names Club of the YearBeer Book Takes Prestigious AwardFuller's Exports 10 Million PintsNew Head Brewer is a Family GuyOn-trade Push for AffligemNew Home for Northants MicroShep's to Brew Sam AdamsArkell's Head Brewer to Step DownOakham, Hepworth and Bristol Take SIBA’s Top PrizesSIBA to Help Brewers with BottleBritain's Biggest Beer Store to ExpandMichelin Restaurant's St George's Beer MenuRobinson's Takes Hawkshead LagerNew Keg Stout for WadworthLondon Brewers' Unusual FestivalItalian Brewery of the Year NamedCAMRA Veteran Says FarewellPressure Grows for Tax Cuts February 2012SIBA Appoints Vice-ChairmanFuller's Bottles StoutNew Pub and New Beer for Wye ValleyLocal Beer: a ‘Sustainable Contribution’ to UK EconomyInternational Brewers Introduced for Wetherspoon FestivalBrakspear Pubs Go Tax FreeNotts Brewery to Create New PubBeer Festivals at Moorhouse'sNew Name for Major Beer AwardsWelsh Pub Judged CAMRA's BestAcorn Rolls Out More US IPAsTop Award for Gloucestershire Beer StoreBristol Brewers Join ForcesSlater's Beer Banned from ParliamentBox Steam Opens New BrewhouseOtley Takes On Brains PubSainsbury's Expands Beer HuntWilliams Bros Launches Vintage Range January 2012Sussex Brewery Pledges Water for BeerSierra Nevada Heads EastHelp Wanted! Truman's Seeks Brewing SiteStella, Bud and Beck’s Get WeakerUK Beer Sales Still on the SlideGreene King Digs Up Coronation AleOakham Revises Beer RangeCornish Beer is Winter ChampionNew Brewery for CornwallHolmes Steps Down at Castle RockBoost for Budvar Yeast BeerBath Ales Opens Craft Beer BarFuller's and Marble CollaborateA-B InBev Acquires Czech TrademarksMPs Unanimous on Pub Group ReformHydes on the MoveThornbridge Home-Brew Winner in PubsThompson Takes Over at Hogs Back December 2011Wadworth Adds Low-Strength AleUS Brewery Makes Wall Street StandEvan Evans Seeks Beer Tasters NationwideRobinson's Installs HopnikButcombe Launches Website for Bottled Beer RetailersM&S Makes Oakham PermanentKernel Founder is Brewer of the YearMcFarland is Beer Writer of the Year November 2011Tetley's Offers Help for HeroesWhite Stouts Do BattleNew Home for BrewlabTop BBC Award for Bristol BeerWilliams Bros Becomes Morrisons HubNew Stouts for LondonWorld Exclusive Hop for Oakham AleArchers Ales RelaunchedCastle Rock Judged SIBA Business ChampionHistoric Lager ReturnsBrains Installs Craft BreweryMarston's Launches Single-Hop RangeWJ King Puts Head Brewer in Every Pub October 2011Vitus Dances to World Beer CrownPub Beer Sales Continue to FallNew Head Brewer for Shepherd NeameCompetition for New Female BrewersBath Ales Eyes ExpansionLoddon Supports British LegionNew Ale Trail for NottinghamWells & Young’s Acquires Key Scottish BrandsRidgeway Wins Sainsbury's Beer HuntNew Duty Rates for Weak and Strong Beers September 2011 Cask Ale: The Pub LifelineUS Brewers Boost Wetherspoon Festival Foster's Accepts SABMiller BidMPs Launch Attack on Pubcos Good Beer Guide Celebrates 'Golden Era' St Peter's Adds Whisky Beer Kernel Claims IBC CrownAcorn Opens First PubRidley Family Back in BrewingRobinson’s Joins Forces with Rock BandCains Appoints Experienced Head Brewer August 2011SABMiller Launches New Bid for Foster’sBrewer’s Reserve No. 3 for Fuller’sBottle Revamp for BadgerWadworth Takes Beer onto the Dining TableSIBA Launches Locals Pub SchemeEssex Ale is CAMRA Champion Beer of BritainThornbridge and Nicholson’s Launch Home Brew ContestWoodforde’s Celebrates with Oak-Aged Nip July 2011Yorkshire's War of the Roses EndedThwaites Eyes New BreweryIBC Medallists AnnouncedUK Beer Sales TumbleSharp’s Howe Named Brewer of the YearNew Head Brewer for Robinson’sFirst Head Office for SIBANew Branding for Brains BeersYorkshire Brewery Launched by BoatMeantime Appoints New CEONew Light Ale for Acorn June 2011Foster’s Rejects SABMiller BidCAMRA Names Celtic Champion Beers End of the Road for Tetley's Brewery Tap for AcornNew Trappist Beer on SaleNew Home for Dorset BreweryRare Anchor Beer on Draught in the UKInnis & Gunn Adds Fruit Beers May 2011Official Opening for New Nottinghamshire BreweryFuller’s Unveils Past Masters No. 2White Shield Brewer to RetireLower-Strength Paulaner Headed for UKBrewers Set Sail for RussiaRik Mayall Becomes Charles Wells BombardierGlasgow Beer Week on the Way April 2011Fuller's Celebrates with Ascot AleFamous Belgian Wheat Beer Returns UK Beer Sales Down New Brewery for Rhymney800th Pub for WetherspoonBrewing Industry Awards Champions Unveiled Hoegaarden Creator Pierre Celis Dies Butcombe Acquires Three More PubsRooster's Brewery Changes Hands March 2011Highwood Brewery SavedA-B InBev Buys Goose Island Breconshire Brewery on the Market Famous Cornish Inn Destroyed by FireTribute to Michael Jackson PublishedUK Budget Hits Beer Again Butlins Takes Cask Ale US Craft Beer Still on the RiseHawkshead Opens New Beer HallWhite Horse Hosts Japanese Fund RaiserEnd of the Road for HighwoodCAMRA Celebrates 40th Birthday25 Pubs Closing Each WeekMolson Coors to Roll Out Two-Thirds GlasswareOverseas Brewers Star in Wetherspoon FestivalNew Premises for Ilkley BreweryUK Beer Exports on the RisePremium Bottled Ale Still GrowingMild Takes Top SIBA AwardPunch Joins SIBA Direct Delivery SchemeSIBA Film Puts Pressure on ChancellorRestaurant Award for WEST BreweryJames Clay Launches Imported Draught Beer BrochureExtra Capacity Installed at Sharp's February 2011Local Beer Outperforms the MarketMonthly Special Ales Return at Moorhouse'sLondon Pub is CAMRA Pub of the YearTributes Paid to Celebrated US Bar OwnerNow Molson Coors Expands Ale RangeMolson Coors Takes Over Sharp’s January 2011UK Beer Sales TumbleHop Back’s Entire is Winter ChampionTwo-Thirds Measure on the WayBrewers Association Redefines Craft BrewingBrakspear Pubs Enjoy Price FreezeDecember 2010Trappist Brewery Survives BlazeInnis & Gunn Launches on TapThornbridge Launches ‘Hall’ Range Beautiful Beer Accreditation for Pub Training SchemesMoorhouse’s New Brewhouse in Full FlowAcorn Celebrates US Hops with New IPAsNew Duty Rates for High- and Low-strength BeerNovember 2010Yorkshire Journalist is Beer Writer of the YearBudvar Brings Yeast Beer to BritainFuller’s Turns to Past Masters for New BeersTop BBC Award for Wye Valley
October 2010 Boondoggle in Bottle for RingwoodGreene King Declares that 'Man Deserves a Proper Pint'New Owners for NethergateMeantime's London Lager Hits the RoadWeather and Economic Uncertainty Blamed for Poor UK Beer SalesSierra Nevada Marks 30 Years with Special Release BeersButcombe Bitter Hits the BottleSIBA Northern Festival Goes LargeCAMRA Pub Design Winners Announced OFT Stands By Beer Tie FindingsLion Nathan Opens New NZ Brewery Exotic Beers at Wetherspoon FestivalShep's Profits Climb New War of the Roses