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Beer1 Apr 2026

A Poetic Act — Zoigl, the Schafferhof, and the Making of Place

Communal brewhouses with gear-and-pully mash tuns. Brewing rights that stretch back to the Middle Ages. Wood-fired brew kettles and coolships. All this alone is enough to make Zoigl utterly unique. Bu…

Pellicle Magazine

Wine31 Mar 2026

Explained: What are grapevine clones?

Our Explained series looks at Clones. What are they? How do I choose the right clone?

The Vine House

Beer31 Mar 2026

Domaine De L'Ocre Rouge La Perle 13% (750ml)

Vendor: Trellis Type: Sparkling Wine Price: 29.00 Tasting Fresh, apple, apricot Grapes Chardonnay, Pinot Noir Production In barrel 5 months, champagne method. Biodynamic Region Languedoc, France

Salthouse Bottles

Beer31 Mar 2026

Vini Coletti Mi Ti et Mes Amis 12% (750ml)

Vendor: Trellis Type: Sparkling Wine Price: 23.50 Tasting Fresh, aromatic, peach, pear Grapes Glera, Chardonnay, Verduzzo Trevigiago Production Hand harvested, stainless steel fermentation, aged 6 mon…

Salthouse Bottles

Beer31 Mar 2026

A walk on the wild side | First & Last Brewery

Bound by a love of fermentation and foraged ingredients, First & Last Brewery is inspired by the wild, untamed landscape and dark skies of northumberland. Founded by Red and Sam Kellie in 2016, the du…

Brewers Journal

Beer31 Mar 2026

Vault City teams up with baker on zero-waste sours

Vault City have teamed up with Leith bakery Babyfaced Baker to create two limited-edition sour beers brewed using surplus croissant pastry that would otherwise go unused. The collaboration with Babyfa…

Brewers Journal

Wine30 Mar 2026

WineGB Accelerates Sustainability Drive with Relaunch of National Certification for UK Wine

WineGB has announced the relaunch of Sustainable Wines of Great Britain (SWGB), its national independently audited sustainability certification scheme, reinforcing the organisation’s commitment to emb…

WineGB

Beer28 Mar 2026

Les Terres Bleues Ma Garance Voyageuse 11% (750ml)

Vendor: Wines Under The Bonnet Type: Red Wine Price: 26.50 Tasting Light, soft, integrated tannins, bright fruits Grapes Grolleau Production No added sulphur Region Loire, France

Salthouse Bottles

Beer27 Mar 2026

The 25,000+ Highest-Rated Drinks, According to Untappd

March can mean many things: 🌷The first sign of spring ⚾The first crack of the bat as baseball season begins ⛹️‍♀️The first tingle of hearts breaking with broken NCAA March Madness brackets. But in ou…

Hop Culture

BrewWho

Beer27 Mar 2026

Damm expands fridge offering

Damm is expanding its fridge pack offering with the addition of Estrella Damm 0.0% and Damm Lemon arriving in UK retail this spring. Launching at Morrisons initially, this will see the retailer offer…

Brewers Journal

Beer27 Mar 2026

David Bailey's Just Beer Things #31 — Bar Stances

*** Thank you for reading Pellicle Magazine! We’re able to pay all of our contributors, including David, a fair rate thanks to the kind support of our Patreon subscribers. If you believe in high quali…

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Beer26 Mar 2026

Ham Street Field Blend 10% (750ml)

Vendor: Wines Under The Bonnet Type: Red Wine Price: 30.00 c Tasting Bright red fruits, juicy, floral Grapes Pinot Meunier, Pinot Noir, Chardonnay, Bacchus, Pinot Gris Production Organic certified Bio…

Salthouse Bottles

Beer26 Mar 2026

Artificial Intelligence’s role in sales

Artificial Intelligence (AI) in sales is the process of taking the knowledge held within your sales data and enhancing it using computer algorithms. This might take the form of logic, if-then rules, d…

Brewers Journal

Beer26 Mar 2026

New packaging aims to support sustainability goals

Croxsons has launched an innovative glass packaging solution that balances “sustainability and practicality in glass bottle and jar design”. Rightweight, the company said, works by engineering packagi…

Brewers Journal

Beer25 Mar 2026

#214 | Andrew Barnett, Barney’s Beer

Meet Andrew Barnett. Andrew is the founder of Edinburgh’s Barney’s Beer. He started his career in brewing aged 16 as a lab assistant at the recently defunct Banks’s brewery in Wolverhampton before doi…

Brewers Journal

Trade25 Mar 2026

Where the independent brewing industry does business: A look at the biggest BeerX ever

The British beer industry like many others is not without its struggles; far too many pubs are closing, breweries are struggling to remain profitable and drinkers are bemoaning the rising price of a p…

SIBA

Beer25 Mar 2026

Sellar launches logistics arm

Sellar, the online drinks distribution platform, has formally announced the launch of its physical distribution operation. The company is operating a pilot that has been running quietly since December…

Brewers Journal

Wine25 Mar 2026

WINEGB CELEBRATES THE START OF THE GROWING SEASON WITH PUBLICATION OF 2025 HARVEST REPORT AND NEW GREEN BOOK

As vineyards across the British Isles celebrate the start of the growing season, WineGB has published two of its annual essential key guides: the 2025 Harvest Report and the new and revised 2026 Green…

WineGB

Beer25 Mar 2026

Never Break the Chain — Chiltern Brewery and Bodger’s Barley Wine

A “bodger” today means someone who does a shoddy job, cuts all available corners, takes the money and runs. But centuries ago, in rural Buckinghamshire, it meant something quite different. It referred…

Pellicle Magazine

Beer24 Mar 2026

Harviestoun Brewery expands

Award-winning independent Scottish craft brewer Harviestoun is scaling for growth with the first phase of a strategic investment programme underway at its Alva brewery, including new warehouse and off…

Brewers Journal

Beer21 Mar 2026

Ideal Day Brewing Co.

The post Ideal Day Brewing Co. appeared first on Red Elephant Beer Cellar.

Red Elephant

Trade20 Mar 2026

UK’s best Indie Beers revealed in historic night for British brewing

The results are in for the UK’s biggest beer competition, with three breweries taking the Overall Gold across the Cask, Keg, and Bottle/Can competitions – with winners from the UK now set to go on and…

SIBA

Beer20 Mar 2026

Fell Brewery win Green Growth Award

Fell Brewery, the independent brewery based in Cumbria, has won a Green Growth Award, a national competition recognising UK small businesses leading the way in using sustainability to innovate and dri…

Brewers Journal

Beer20 Mar 2026

Arsenal and Athletic Brewing launch maiden collab

Athletic Brewing Company, America’s largest dedicated non-alcoholic brewer, today unveiled Clock End, a UK-exclusive alcohol-free red ale launched in collaboration with Arsenal. From 21 March, Arsenal…

Brewers Journal

Beer20 Mar 2026

The Swaen toasts 120 Years

The Swaen, an independent, family-owned malting company, is celebrating 120 years of malting. Since its founding in 1906, generations have worked in the malthouse in Kloosterzande, transforming barley…

Brewers Journal

Trade19 Mar 2026

Scotland’s Fyne Ales named Brewery Business of the Year at SIBA Business Awards 2026

Winners in the SIBA Business Awards 2026 have today been revealed, highlighting the UK’s very best brewing businesses, pubs and retailers of independent beer – in what was a glittering night for the i…

SIBA

Beer18 Mar 2026

Exploring Bulgaria

Bulgaria has a long wine making history dating back to the Thracians with some evidence suggesting they produced wine since 4000B.C. With such a long winemaking history then why haven’t these wines hi…

Amps Wine Merchants

BrewWho

Trade18 Mar 2026

Europe’s independent brewers show determination as survival and energy prices tops agenda for 2026

Europe’s independent brewers are showing their determination this year despite four in ten saying survival is their main priority. A new report published today shows that in the face of international…

SIBA

Beer18 Mar 2026

The problem with your trade shop solution

You’ve set up a digital trade store, only to see a handful of existing trade buyers ordering through it. Buyers continue to place orders across multiple channels (e.g. email, text, WhatsApp), leaving…

Brewers Journal

Beer18 Mar 2026

It’s Not Easy Being Green — Inside the UK’s Matcha Boom

Matcha lends itself to some deliciously stupid, irresistible puns, so let me get those out of the way first. Too matcha of a good thing. A matcha made in heaven. Matcha-do about nothing. And my person…

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