Press Releases – Page 27

Watneys Raises A Laugh With Headliners Craft Range

Watneys has launched a new range of beers in celebration of the lighter side of life, balancing the serious craft credentials of the beers with the importance of sharing a pint and a joke with friends while enjoying the many different things that make us laugh. Named Sarcasm, Slapstick, and Irony, the three-strong Headliners range launches in September and features a Citrus Pale Ale, Double IPA and Craft Lager in keg and can.

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Registration now open for World’s Biggest Pub Quiz 2019

John Porter

The World’s Biggest Pub Quiz is back for 2019 and set to be bigger and better than ever. Organisers PubAid are encouraging even more pubs and their customers to take part and raise money for charities, including official charity partner Prostate Cancer UK.

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Hogs Back Brewery estate manager Matthew King (left) and hop consultant Colin Bird inspect the hop garden

Hogs Back prepares for fourth and final harvest on current site

John Porter

Hogs Back Brewery is predicting a top-quality hop harvest this year, with the impact of the long, hot summer raising expectations of quality over quantity. With plans in hand to relocate the hop garden to a much larger site for 2019, the fourth, and final, harvest on the existing hop garden will take place mid-September, after which the process of transferring hops, and planting new ones, will begin.

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Bartender Lee Jones, of the Smokestack bar in Leeds, has won the International Final of the Southern Comfort Southern Showdown 2018 cocktail contest, held in the cocktail capital of the world, New Orleans.

British bartender wins the International Southern Showdown 2018

John Porter

Bartender Lee Jones, of the Smokestack bar in Leeds, has won the International Final of the Southern Comfort Southern Showdown 2018 cocktail contest, held in the cocktail capital of the world, New Orleans.

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Scapegrace Gin goes rogue with Anonymous Cocktail Competition

John Porter

Building on its reputation as the rogue of the spirits shelf, Scapegrace Gin is launching a cocktail competition with a difference. Bartenders entering the Anonymous contest will have to create a Scapegrace cocktail recipe that will be made for the judges by another bartender.

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Hogs Back Brewery on Farmers Country Showdown

A Second Showdown for Hogs Back Brewery

John Porter

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Drinkaware Crew to operate at Splendour Festival

John Porter

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Mike Wood and Simon Longbottom PubAid Fundraiser Award

Stonegate scoops Corporate Charity Fundraiser award

John Porter

Stonegate Pub Company has been named the Corporate Charity Fundraiser of the Year by PubAid and the All-Party Parliamentary Beer Group (APPBG).

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Rupert Thompson Hogs Back Brewery World Cup pint

Counting cost as football comes home – Hogs Back boss rues free pint offer

John Porter

A Surrey brewery boss may be the only Englishman crying into his beer if England beat Croatia in the World Cup semi-final on Wednesday, following an earlier promise of a free pint to customers in the brewery’s shop ahead of the final next weekend.

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The King of Soho Variorium and Original Dry Gin

The King of Soho is in the Pink with new gin launch

John Porter

The King of Soho is adding a new addition to its colourful line-up with the introduction of the King of Soho Variorum Gin, a berry edition of the original London Dry.

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Fernet-Branca challenges the bar trade’s bravest at the Barback Games

John Porter

Britain’s bravest and boldest bar workers will be put through their paces when the Fernet-Branca Barback Games come to London this September, with a trip to San Francisco up for grabs for the winner.

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FCO and Drinkaware issue sensible drinking guidance to travelling World Cup fans

FCO & Drinkaware Alcohol Warnings For Travelling World Cup Fans

John Porter

Counterfeit vodka and generous spirit measures served in Russian bars and restaurants, are among the issues facing British people travelling to the World Cup, warns the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) and alcohol education charity Drinkaware. As supporters make the journey to the tournament following England’s victory in their opening game against Tunisia, Drinkaware and the Foreign & Commonwealth Office (FCO) are offering support and advice on sensible drinking during the tournament.

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