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All Bar One taps into sustainability with new wine collection
All Bar One is taking sustainability beyond the straw with its new wine collection. The range, part of the chain’s…
W(a)hey: Black Cow champions zero-waste with latest competition
Milk vodka distillery Black Cow has announced the theme for its 2018 Gold Top Cup cocktail competition, with this year’s…
24-hour party people: hospitality’s £6.75bn missed opportunity?
The UK’s hospitality industry is missing out on nearly £7bn of business a year, because it’s failing to keep up…
Why ‘no alcohol’ could be the biggest beer trend since craft
At the start of this month, Adnams released a no-alcohol version of its best-selling pale ale Ghost Ship. As Imbibe…
Kent’s Hush Heath Winery unveils plans to triple output in five years
Hush Heath is looking to the future, and seeing no sign of the thirst for English wine abating. With that…
Beer launches: The newest summer sips to stock
New beer releases are brewing this summer. From low/no products to craft on draught, here are the latest beer launches for…
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Beer roundup: Sours go low, Bath goes big, Lowlander goes global
There’s nothing like a shiny new craft beer to breathe life back into our stuffy, hayfever-ridden lives, and a few…
Beer countries: The brews that embody their homelands
There isn’t really such a thing as terroir in beer, but that doesn’t stop brewers from capturing the essence of…
Gosnells looks to lure wine drinkers with revamped low-abv mead
Mead has long sat, perhaps uncomfortably, at a rather obscure intersection of wine and beer. The honey-fermented drink is often…
The Macallan gets set to open its new space-age distillery
Cult Speyside distillery The Macallan is set to open its brand-new, design-led distillery to visitors on 2 June. The building…
Halewood announces new distillery amid plans to sell
After a strong financial year in 2017, Halewood Wines & Spirits, the distributor behind bar favourites such as Crabbie’s and Whitley Neill and City…
Natural wines: The risks and rewards of ditching sulphur
The use of sulphur (or not) in wines can be as divisive as Brexit, with about as much middle ground.…
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Southern round of Shakes & the City concludes 2018 heats
The good ship Shakes & the City pulled into its final harbour for this year’s heats at Berry Bros &…
Edinburgh takes the Scottish heat of Shakes & the City
Only in Scotland would you hear a bunch of bartenders complaining about the heat when the mercury tickles 18°C. ‘It’s…
The world’s first 0% abv rum punch launches
You may think of punch as a booze-laced communal drink from the proverbial flowing bowl, but there’s a new product…
Tanqueray launches Lovage to show gin’s savoury side
Tanqueray is adding to the sea of flavoured gins available to the on-trade with its new limited-edition gin Lovage, which takes…
How I create cocktails: Alex Kratena
Renowned bartender and (P)our founder Alex Kratena on drink creation, writing recipes and when culinary technology can help or hinder…
Alex Kratena: When the culinary and bar worlds collide
Renowned bartender and (P)our founder Alex Kratena on the similarities between comfort food and classic drinks and what we can learn…