‘Beer sales in British pubs are the lowest in a century in 2020 due to the pandemic yet alcohol intake and related problems seem to be on the rise, the best way to curb these excesses... open the pubs’ - Charlie Stone
British pub beer sales at lowest level since 1920s - from The Guardian
City A.M. Acting Editor Andy Silvester sits down with the British Beer & Pub Association’s Chief Executive Emma McClarkin
Emma McClarkin, CEO of British Beer & Pub Association, says no pubs will be able to survive until May "without substantial enhanced packages of support from the government" Read more here:
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A govt paid for feature (in @guardian and I imagine elsewhere) is calling for us to eat more fish from British waters. Including 'beer battered Dover Sole' as an alternative to cod. WTF? Dover Sole is literally the most expensive fish there is. And deep frying it? (via @I_Jay )
…I will therefore be freezing beer and cider duty for the next year…keeping the cost of beer down for patrons of the Great British Pub ❄️? …I will also freeze duty on spirits… ❄️? #Budget2018
British artist William Hogarth died #onthisday in 1764. His ‘Gin Lane’ and ‘Beer Street’ warned against the effects of drinking too much gin
From a Roman-British preacher to green beer: what we know about St Patrick
The great British beer revival. 14 new microbreweries are opening in Britain every month
In 1689 the average British adult drank over 100 gallons of beer a year. Today, the figure is 15 gallons.
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