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→ The Queen’s speech on Wednesday included the announcement of Government plans for a new statutory code and independent adjudicator*for pubs, with the primary intention of improving the fortunes of hard-pressed pub company tenants. CAMRA is*jubilant; publican campaigners feel its a half-hearted compromise; opponents of state interference in business think it’s *step too far; and we’re holding our breath to see what the impact of even these timid steps might be, with the Beer Orders in mind.
→ Keen BrewDog watchers have been predicting a rebrand for some time and it seems it’s finally arrived. Is it just superficial, or does this also signal a cultural reboot for a company which has too often*seemed downright brattish?
→ Saved to Pocket this week: Martyn Cornell’s lengthy examination*of how the RAF supplied troops in Europe with beer during World War II. (We’ve seen that picture of the Spitfire with the beer barrels under its wings a millions times, but this goes into a*lot more detail.)
→*After our post about Mackeson, The Beer Nut shared reviews of the same beer and its Trinidad-brewed XXX cousin*from his vast archive.
→ There’s yet more decent coverage of beer on the BBC news website with this piece on craft beer in India*by Simon Atkinson.
→ This photograph of Kate ‘Maid Marian’ Lonergan hit us hard in the childhood nostalgia glands:
Er… crazy. So it WAS Maid Marian. She does horticulture now and did the hops for Meantime. Day made. pic.twitter.com/D2d4LlaEBJ
— It Comes In Pints? (@icipints) June 5, 2014
→ And, finally, those of you who like to handle the goods before buying might be interested to know that*Brew Britannia is apparently available in actual bricks and mortar branches of Waterstones.
News, Nuggets & Longreads 07/06/2014


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