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Beer from Antarctic ice crowned world’s most expensive
There is a new name on the block in terms of being the world’s most expensive beer after an Australian brewer created a brew using Antarctic Ice. Only 30 bottles of the expensive beer, named Antarctic Nail Ale, have been made and each are to be sold for $800 – and it is all in [...]
London barmen crowned Draught Master
The Draught Master Championship has been won by London barman Jonathan Crow. Crow, of the Lamb Tavern in Leadenhall Market, London, wowed judges with his beer knowledge and pint pouring ability at the championship that was sponsored by Stella Artois. He walked away from the final, held at the Design Museum in London, with a [...]
Half of men won’t order a soft drink in a pub
Half of men admit that they won’t order a soft drink in a pub because ‘it’s not manly enough’, a study has found. Researchers for Iron Press discovered that one in two males would order a beer at a bar out of peer pressure rather than through having wanted to drink one over a soft [...]
The most expensive beers in the world
Us beer drinkers often get unhappy that our local has upped the price of our favourite tipple by ten pence or more, but the cost is small compared to these brews, which by our research are the world’s most expensive. Jacobsen Vintage No 1 The most expensive beer in the world comes at the hefty [...]
Olde English 800 named the world’s worst beer
Olde English 800 has been unfortunately tagged as the worst beer in the world by a poll run by ratebeer.com The beer, which is 3.2% ABW, scored 0.96 out of five to come bottom out of hundreds of beers surveyed, although its standard version scored a little better at 1.35, which put in 41st bottom [...]
Fancy a beer with your coffee?
The World’s leading coffee chain Starbucks is to trial selling beer at its coffee shops. In an attempt to maintain custom beyond the morning and lunchtime trade the giant is to include a range of beers and wine along with lattes and espressos. However, the chain may have difficulties gaining licenses for the move and [...]
Jokey fined for merely tasting a beer
A jokey in Australia has been fined $200 after he was spotted taking a mouthful of beer at the side of a race track at Ballarat. The stewards’ panel charged Nikolic with misconduct after he took a can of Victoria Bitter from an esky behind the barriers before the first race at Ballarat last Tuesday, [...]
England’s cheapest beer is in the West Midlands
The cheapest place to get a beer in England is in the West Midlands, according to a new survey, which found Surrey to be the most expensive place. West Midlands drinkers pay an average of £2.45 for a pint, compared to Surrey drinkers who pay an average of £3.08. The survey was carried out by [...]
Peter Kay to return in John Smith adverts
The iconic ‘no nonsense’ John Smith’s beer adverts are to return to our screens with Comedian Peter Kay once again the lead. The star featured in a series of adverts for the brewer from 2002 to 2005, which included one involving ‘keepie uppies’ and one of him ‘bombing’ into a swimming pool. Both of which [...]
Workers end protest over lack of free beer
Employees at a Carlsberg warehouse in Copenhagen, Denmark, have ended their five-day strike over a cut in their daily ration of free beer. The company had introduced a new rule which reduced the amount of beer employees could drink while at work, but this prompted the workers to go on strike. The reduction was from [...]
