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by Stuart Mills

Riots: pubs vow to ‘buy a bobby a beer’

Pubs across London have joined a campaign called ‘Buy a Bobby a Beer’ — pledging to thank the emergency services for their help during the riots.

The group, launched on Facebook, is asking pubs to pledge a beer to a member of the police and other emergency services.

Fuller’s has joined the campaign and during the weekend of 19-21 August will be offering a free drink to any member of the England and Wales Police, Fire or Ambulance Services who presents a valid warrant card in a participating pub.

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Or visit www.buyabobbyabeer.com for more details.

by Stuart Mills

The Guardian: Real ale revival led by small breweries

Great British Beer Festival set to toast figures showing microbreweries opening at rate of almost 50 a year.

The UK’s brewers are almost as wary as farmers of admitting prosperity, but a new report makes no bones about the dramatic revival of real ale and small-scale production.

Famous for brand names such as Pigswill and Old Leg Over, microbreweries are opening at the rate of almost 50 a year, encouraged by generous tax concessions and drinkers’ appetite for new tastes.

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by Stuart Mills

The beer mat show

 

The beermat. A banal part of every pub’s scenery, or a creative piece of art? Well, usually the former (along with salty pork scratchings and hanging baskets) but for one month only, in London’s Bun House, beer mats are being celebrated.

As many pubs close throughout the UK, it not only means that we are losing a central and vital part of the community but also the traditional objects associated with them. One such thing being the beermat, something to take home at the end of the night as a reminder of that amazing pub you stumbled across, or a handy substitute for paper when desperately trying to give someone your number.

At his latest exhibition, Cedar Lewisohn is inviting the punters to put their drink down on the artwork, and admire. Artists such as Ben Eine, Sarah Baker, Gavin Turk and Bob and Roberta Smith are showcasing their work. The exhibition has been commissioned to highlight the issue of pub closures throughout the UK, as well as a decline in their industries. It will be running from 29th July to 29 August at The Bun House, 96 Peckham high street.

So pop down, check it out and afterwards quench your thirst with a perfect pint in your local.

Here are our Use Your Local beer mats that were released in 2010 to encourage everyone to score their local.


by Stuart Mills

A bitter blow for the British pub vying to be the world’s smallest

LONDON — British villagers who tried to create the world’s smallest pub by converting a disused red telephone box into an alehouse were served a bitter blow Monday when record-keepers barred their entry.

People in the village of Shepreth, eastern England, set up The Dog and Bone pub in the three-feet (90-centimetre) square ex-phone box for just one night, calling time when the only barrel serving drinkers ran dry.

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by Stuart Mills

BBC: Communities ‘need more’ to save local pubs, says AM

Communities struggling to save their local pub should have more help from the public and private sector, says a North Wales AM.

Llyr Huws Gruffydd said he will write to large pub-owning companies (pubcos) to see if they will give regulars the first chance to buy a pub being sold.

The Plaid AM’s comments come after a report showed 375 pubs closed in Wales from 2007-10, 80 of them in the north.

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