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ale is good beer cooking beery cooking and beery wholesale and cellar tech and ale is g oo d beer cooking beery cooking and beery wholesale and cellar tech and search main menu skip to primary content skip to secondary content home about apocuntalypse beer food matching beery qualifications cooking with beer twitter post navigation older posts you must serve half pints posted on january 12 2017 by yvan seth as i presume we all know in the uk it is the law that beer must be served in measures of third of a pint half a pint two thirds of a pint pints and multiples of half pints a lot of options but also a bit of a pain for folk wanting to do tasting flights as breweries back home in australia do a third is too large for the purpose really but hey ho this is beside the point here the reason for this quick post is that whilst i knew it was mandatory for licensed premises to be able to serve beer in half pints i realised this is just what i d been told and i didn t know where it was in legislation google searching didn t quickly lead me to the answer and i wasted half an hour pinning it down to answer the question yes it is mandatory that you are able to serve beer and cider in ½ pint measures you also must advertise the fact see page 9 of guidance on mandatory licensing conditions https www gov uk file 3 2014 08 29_mc_guidance_v1_0 pdf after some hunting here is the relevant legislation section 5 on page 3 of the licensing act 2003 mandatory licensing conditions order 2010 http www legislation gov uk 8 pdfs uksi_20100860_en pdf 5 the responsible person shall ensure that a where any of the following alcoholic drinks is sold or supplied for consumption on the premises other than alcoholic drinks sold or supplied having been made up in advance ready for sale or supply in a securely closed container it is available to customers in the following measures i beer or cider ½ pint ii gin rum vodka or whisky 25 ml or 35 ml and iii still wine in a glass 125 ml and b customers are made aware of the availability of these measures hopefully google etc picks this up and anyone else seeking the information in future has a quicker time of it than i did posted in beer industry brewery data companies house posted on january 11 2017 by yvan seth in the whole discussion about the state of the industry going on lately we see figures bandied about from camra and the bbpa i like to work some of my own data out from sources where possible but unfortunately there is no clear source of number of breweries in the uk this quick post was originally a comment on boak bailey s beer blog gauging the mood of the british beer scene but it became a bit too long for something a bit too tangential the comment started with me thinking to myself i would put not much money on hitting 2000 breweries this year i still hear of far more openings and planned openings than closures not much of a stretch on the bbpa s last figure of 1700 mind but a bit of a jump from the 1500 i see most often gbg camra where do they get the numbers from you can download all companies house data here http download companieshouse gov uk en_output html it is mahoosive of course 5 separate zip files about 1 5gb data uncompressed fully shut down companies are not listed you can count the number of active entries marked as being in the business of manufacture of beer including as non primary business the number is 1645 which seems sane some of which are likely bogus like the gourmet jerk chicken company and bear in mind some breweries may be sole traders or partnerships not registered with companies house so they will not show up in this data i guess what we want to know really is from hmrc how many registered for beer duty are reporting a non zero volume brewed they ll be the truly active breweries you could filter by date and see how many companies have been registered each year with the intention of being in the manufacture of beer in 2016 this is 171 new companies formed with this intention bear in mind that we don t know how many of these have gone on to be bona fide duty registered breweries in fact how about the last 3 decades year new brewery ltds still active 2016 171 suspect 2015 288 2014 238 2013 169 2012 157 2011 127 2010 66 2009 64 2008 40 2007 36 2006 43 2005 26 2004 38 2003 30 2002 38 2001 11 2000 15 1999 15 1998 19 1997 20 1996 7 1995 11 1994 7 1993 6 1992 7 1991 4 1990 2 1989 4 1988 1 1987 2 1986 2 if this data is accurate in 2016 that could be quite interesting i wonder if there is any lag in registrations showing up according to comment from markb below there probably is a lag in the companies house data it could indicate 2015 was a peak in founding breweries but we don t have anywhere near enough data to come to that conclusion with much confidence i would now be unlikely to bet on us hitting the 2000 brewery figure this year this post is a bit drab so how about i graph that too you can also grep the file for things like liquidation there are other relevant states to examine to see who s marked as such by companies house right now as of 1st january say bearing in mind companies can be in this state for months years even there are 33 in liquidation right now but including many most of us are aware of and reasons for liquidation can be fairly benign i think and there are red herrings aplenty so the data needs a careful cross referencing there s quite a few marked proposal to strike off worth investigating sometimes just because of badly run businesses tardy with filings and a handful in administration or a voluntary arrangement some i ve never heard of others much higher profile this is just snapshot in time mind someone seriously monitoring this stuff could download the data monthly and map some trends but i suppose that what people at companies like cga strategy are paid to do for us so we can buy expensive reports every year i don t i can t afford expensive reports but anyway here s a whole data project for some beery data nerd in a former life i d have started doing something with this here s the 2017 01 01 data filtered down to just manufacturers of beer which is a much more digestable 119kb brewers basiccompanydata 2017 01 01 csv posted in beer industry we can do without craft elitism posted on december 6 2015 by yvan seth dabbled in facebook briefly i use it as a business tool mainly and it is a useful one but if you re there you get dragged into being friends and into groups there s a craft beer group where you re only allowed to talk about craft beer some poor chap got told off for mentioning robinsons beer pffftt i m not a big fan of robbies old tom on cask can be a delight mind you like most trad brewers their sterile shelflife first flavour second bottled stuff is mostly not great compared to their cask and their cask is mostly a bit unexciting but entirely pleasant when found in good condition but just because they re a bit trad presumably pay full duty rate are more than 10 years old as a brewery and that you find their beers in tesco seems little reason to blithely dismiss them as not craft in my mind let alone get on a high horse about it they re independent and family run do not represent a huge chunk of the uk beer market well below the 3 that makes up the us definition for craft brewers let alone the overall volume of beer produced under the us market definition i d be curious to know if they brew less or more than brewdog at the moment brewdog that common or garden variety tesco brewer who most certainly are on the full duty rate craft defined by style maybe craft defined by hops the mindless faddishness of it gets my goat and i want no part in it it reflects badly on the industry as a whole and it makes folk who claim that they like beer look like a bag of fashion victim style tossers posted in real ale craft beer hasty ranting politics kwality posted on december 4 2015 by yvan seth the british beer industry has an oxidised over conditioned possibly infected elephant in the room frankly sometimes it is hard to imagine there is room for anyone in the room other than the elephant look good beer needs to be a good b kept well c served well sadly given the failure of at least one of these factors in most cases you re unlikely to experience good beer ah beer nirvana where can it be found my current answer move to another country i m a bit sick of it all to be honest i jumped into the industry on a platform of giving a real utter fuck about quality here i am now with a 9c coldstore warm for cask and a 4c coldstore for keg bottle can i don t do spend this flippantly i do it because in my own tests it really fucking matters but the british they care not they drink the brand the breweries they sell to who llever buy sales channel quality these things mean nothing to the british craft brewer they ll sell their yeasty end runnings to your poor demented grandmother if they can get a quid out of it and the publicans are actually worse than the brewers kwality is all in the brand and the best you can hope to do is build a brand to sell to abinheinemolsenthingamy my value is as nowt to both brewers and publicans i may as well be a bucket chain as far as beer quality in the uk is concerned posted in uncategorized sour posted on september 23 2015 by yvan seth i think we need a better vocabulary around the subject of sourness in beer i hear a lot of stuff described as sour and i m rarely quite sure what someone means usually it just means they re a malty beer drinker and they don t like a thin pale ale such as oakham citra being described as sharp keep in mind that beer is always acidic be it berlinerweisse at a ph of 3 or malty ale at a ph in the low fours and palates vary but some things are definitely detectable and definable here s a few forms of sour i come across sharp what i call the sharpness of thin pale ales the session ipas of this world i actually hear people take a sip and say oh that s sour i d not use the word sour personally but i do use the term sharp see also being contacted by a bar and asked why a beer is so sour worrying about infection then hearing it is a 3 session pale and thinking ah hah some i know think of this as a lack of balance especially in new style brit ipas that lack the meatier crystal malt character of some of their us counterparts lactic this is a properly biting lemon juice sour which can be often found in mouth puckeringly dry berlinerweisse but also sometimes in bigger sweeter beers which take the edge off it it is a clean sourness not one that usually comes with a sour aroma it can be described as enamel stripping at times but shouldn t be too challenging to the white wine or cider drinker ice cold it is amongst my favourite type of summer refresher especially at typical sub 4 strengths acetic always bad in my opinion but accepted by some in some styles basically this is vinegar sometimes complete with malt vinegar pong usually a sign of badly kept cask ales sometimes mildly deliberate notably in the in famous duchess de brogdoggognogwhateveritisyer brett i still don t quite understand this one i see bretted beers decribed as a sour style and i ve had folk say they won t have bretted beers because they don t like sours i m still a bit confused by this i ve had some sour ish bretted beers but i don t think of brett as a giver of sourness usually it is more umami and woody spiciness but hey ho it is worth mentioning the sense of sourness could come from them often being dry little sweetness and not hugely hopped little bitterness perhaps this subject needs a bit of deeper exploration beyond orval ropey this is sort of my own one is is that specific sourness you only seem to get in old fined cask ale i suspect it is the finings going off it s a sort of tang i call it a twang a discord in the beer flavour it is distinct from any of the above think old pongy cheap port perhaps not acetic but soured needs more analysis unpleasantly there are probably others but these are what i some across most often in talking to folk who buy beer at various levels and drinking beer myself are their tannic sours citric not sure but the point is we need more precision as currently the word sour is doing me ed in posted in real ale hasty ranting tasting tagged acetic brett finings lactic ropey sharp sour post navigation older posts recent posts you must serve half pints brewery data companies house we can do without craft elitism kwality sour pressure gauges a chat with atlantic keg beer pressure in the uk objective definition of craft beer summer of fob what keg beer sommelier pffffttttttt the impact of duty excise on the price of a pint gross profit why 6 is a good price for a pint of gamma ray to fine the unfined keg all tied up route to market biiab level 2 award in beer and cellar quality cask and keg a further attack what is this natural you speak of the local factor tags ebbc13 3 good things bbq beer academy advanced course beer festival belgian brewdog brouwerij 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