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Hogs Back Tongham TEA IBC Silver Medal for Design & Packaging

Hogs Back Brewery celebrates Design Award for Tongham TEA

Surrey-based Hogs Back Brewery has been given an extra 30th birthday present with the news that its flagship ale Tongham TEA has won a prestigious drinks industry design award. The distinctive new pack design and branding for Tongham TEA, launched earlier this year, won the silver medal for best Design and Packaging in the International Beer Challenge (IBC), which recognises global beer excellence.

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Hogs Back Brewery backs England’s World Cup bid with free beer

John Porter

Surrey-based Hogs Back Brewery is offering drinkers a free pint of Three Hogs, its beer specially brewed for football-watching, if the England squad reaches the World Cup final in December.

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Deadline extended for Community Pub Hero Awards

John Porter

PubAid has extended the deadline for its Community Pub Hero Awards to 21st November, giving another four weeks for pubs to enter, and for MPs to nominate pubs in their constituencies.

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Party guests take part in the hat decorating competition

Hogs Back Hop Harvest celebrated by 3,000 people

John Porter

Hogs Back Brewery in Tongham, near Farnham, staged its annual Hop Harvest celebrations on the last weekend in September, with a music festival-style event on Saturday and a more family-friendly TEA Party on the Sunday. A record 3,000 people attended over the two days.

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Brakspear's Giving Back scheme will preserve bees and help local communities

New Brakspear’s Giving Back scheme to focus charity support on bees and local causes

John Porter

Pub operator Brakspear is launching Brakspear’s Giving Back, a new initiative to support worthy causes chosen by its 120 pubs through a match funding scheme, and to upscale the company’s long-standing efforts to protect Britain’s bee population.

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Hospitality Must Invest In People and Technology

John Porter

Emerging from lockdowns, hospitality operators are still missing out on a critical opportunity to address the sector’s staffing crisis, a new study shows. With the backdrop of global economic challenges, operators who underinvest in people and technology face an existential threat, according to the industry survey conducted by Hospitality Mavericks, in partnership with workforce management specialist Bizimply.

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Badger Beers Toasts World Beer Awards Success

John Porter

Dorset family brewer Badger Beers is celebrating a new round of awards success, with three of its beers winning medals at the World Beer Awards (WBA) 2022. The WBA judges recognised both established ales and recent innovation from Badger, reflecting the brewery’s strategy of offering high quality, premium beers with a broad consumer appeal.

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Community Pub Hero Awards open for entries

John Porter

PubAid’s Community Pub Hero Awards are returning with new categories designed to reward licensees and, for the first time, pub regulars, who go the extra mile to support their local communities, charities and worthy causes.
The competition is organised by PubAid with sponsorship once again from Matthew Clark and support from the All-Party Parliamentary Beer Group

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Curious Brewery Loves Lounging As Listings Expand

John Porter

Curious Brewery is enjoying strong sales growth following the launch of its new Pilsner, as well as building significant on-trade listings for its range. Curious Session IPA is now stocked in all 164 café bar venues operated by the award-winning Loungers group.

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Pubs should be ‘first port of call’ for charity and grassroots sports support

John Porter

New research for industry body PubAid reveals a ‘disconnect’ between pubgoers’ love of their local and their appreciation of it as a centre for charity fundraising and grassroots sport support.

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Hepworth & Company to install new canning line as part of investment programme

John Porter

Hepworth & Company has unveiled a major programme of investment in its Sussex brewery, including the installation of a new 30,000 cans/per hour capacity canning line and a number of environmental measures which will help the brewer reach its 85% carbon neutral target by 2025.

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Hogs Back launches first collaboration beer with Mondo Brewing

John Porter

Surrey based Hogs Back Brewery is launching its first collaboration with another brewer, When Hogs Fly, a cask American Pale Ale brewed with Mondo Brewing Company. The beer will be available from 4 July exclusively in Fuller’s pubs, supported with a customer incentive, and in Hogs Back’s Brewery Tap and Shop.

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