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As pubs and bars gear up for the festive season, alcohol education charity Drinkaware is urging operators to take steps to minimise the risk of alcohol related harms in their venues.
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Operators focused on winning their share of customer spend in the run-up to Christmas must start giving serious thought to the bigger challenge of trading through the first few months of 2018, warns buying specialist Lynx Purchasing
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Hogs Back Brewery is reaping the rewards of planting its own hop garden next to the brewery in Farnham in Surrey as the price of imported varieties reaches an all-time high, fuelled by the weakness of sterling.
Speaking at a ‘Hop Tales and Hop Tails’ event in London to celebrate the brewery’s third hop harvest and share insights on the UK and global hop markets, Hogs Back Brewery managing director Rupert Thompson said, “We planted our hop garden next to the brewery in 2014, as part of our commitment to local sourcing, reducing food miles, sustainable brewing and taking greater control of the ingredients in our beers. Growing our own hops has been rewarding in many ways and is certainly making us better brewers.
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Classic Italian herbal spirit Fernet-Branca is inviting bartenders to submit designs for the UK’s 2018 Fernet-Branca Challenge Coin. Distributor Hi-Spirits has set the challenge, with a theme for the design of “what makes the UK bar scene so great?” A shortlist of coin designs will be voted on by the industry, and the winning design will be produced next year.
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Hi-Spirits will be celebrating the capital’s booming cocktail culture by putting some of the biggest brands in its portfolio in the spotlight during London Cocktail Week.
Southern Comfort, Buffalo Trace bourbon, Tito’s Handmade Vodka and the classic Italian Fratelli Branca liqueur range will all be featured, with the cocktail cognoscenti able to enjoy a range of £6 drinks at selected bars throughout LCW, which runs from October 2 – 8.
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Provenance Inns has announced the appointment of Rupert Farquharson as managing director. An experienced hospitality and drinks trade professional, Farquharson takes up his new role as the seven-strong gastropub and hotel operator gears up for the next phase of its growth.
Pub operator and brewer Brakspear has recruited Peter Furness-Smith as a non-executive director, with a particular focus on helping to develop the company’s expanding managed estate. Furness-Smith retired this summer from McMullens, the Hertfordshire brewer and pub retailer, where he served nearly 20 years as managing director. McMullens has 85 managed and 35 tenanted pubs.
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Unique Hospitality Management has taken on its seventh pub, Star Pubs & Bars’ owned venue The Fox Inn at Boars Hill, Oxfordshire.
The lease of the Fox Inn, which is situated between Oxford and Abingdon, has been acquired from MLC Pubs and Unique Hospitality Management is investing £350k in the venue. The pub is currently being refurbished September and will reopen on Thursday, 21 September.
Surrey-based Hogs Back Brewery is celebrating its 25th birthday this month by turning back the clocks and offering its flagship Traditional English Ale (TEA) at 1992 prices in a handful of pubs close to the brewery in Farnham.
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Unique Hospitality Management is hoping to hit customers’ sweet spots this coming National Burger Day (Thursday, 24 August), with a dessert burger on offer as part of the annual celebration of the bunned beauty.
The dessert burger, which is made with a doughnut bun, chocolate brownie patty, set custard, raspberry “ketchup” and sweet polenta chips served with a vanilla and blueberry milkshake is on the menu at all six Unique pubs.
A spontaneous sex change has caused eyebrows to be raised at the Hogs Back Brewery in Surrey. The culprit is a Farnham White Bine hop plant which has switched from female to male.
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Hogs Back Brewery is on track for a bumper crop of hops as it enters the all-important final weeks before the 2017 harvest.
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