TBAS News

Brewgooder toasts £62,000 deal with ALDI in Scotland
Brewgooder has landed a new £62,000 contract to supply all 78 ALDI stores across Scotland with its Clean Water Lager (£5.49/4 pack x 330ml) over the next six months. The Ellon-based team at Brewgooder, who have a mission to provide clean water to one million people...
Scottish brewers bottle £114,000 boost from Aldi Beer Festival
Breweries from across Scotland are toasting a mid-year sales boost expected to be worth £114,000 as the 14th Scottish Beer Festival launches in ALDI stores across the country today, Thursday 8 March. The in-store festival celebrates the talent flowing from Scotland’s...

Scottish microbrewery secures first major supermarket listing south of the border: with Morrisons in England and Wales
A Scottish microbrewery has secured a listing with Morrisons’ largest stores in England and Wales, for both its beers. The award-winning beers from Edinburgh’s Bellfield Brewery are now available in 54 Morrisons stores, from Maidstone to Plymouth and Peckham to...
Best of UK brewing comes together for FyneFest 2018
Fyne Ales have announced the first thirty breweries taking part in their annual Summer festival, FyneFest. This year’s line-up includes familiar faces including Magic Rock, Fierce, Cloudwater and Tiny Rebel as well as festival debuts from up-and-coming breweries...

Midlothian’s Cross Borders Brewing WIN prestigious Micro-business of the year award
Cross Borders Brewing has been named Micro-Business of the Year in the Scottish section of the FSB Celebrating Small Business Awards 2018 at a recent prestigious event in Edinburgh. The local craft brewery, which began trading in 2016, has already built up an...

Craft Beer Clan of Scotland flies flag for country’s craft brewers and distillers at world’s largest food and drink fair in Dubai
Scotland’s leading exporter of craft spirits and beer is returning to Dubai next week to champion Scottish craft breweries and distillers at the world’s largest food and drink fair. Leading exporter the Craft Beer Clan of Scotland, which represents around 60 craft...
CAMRA courts all beer and cider drinkers as it widens remit
The Campaign for Real Ale (CAMRA) is set to widen its remit to represent drinkers of quality beers, ciders and perries of all types, as well as moving its focus beyond traditional pubs, if its members approve recommendations put before them in April. While continuing...
Find thousands of pubs and pints with new app!
The Campaign for Real Ale (CAMRA) launched an innovative new app that puts good pubs and great pints at people’s fingertips. The Good Beer Guide app collates data from over 40,000 pubs so that app users can search for local pubs based on their individual preferences....

TBAS Launches ‘Hop’line For Scottish Brewers
The Brewers' Association of Scotland has today (11 January) launched a free helpline for brewers offering advice on licensing and HMRC from TLT LLP and Johnston Carmichael. Scotland’s brewing industry is flourishing, there are more than 125 operating breweries...
Williams Bros Outlines Plans to Quadruple Capacity
One of Scotland’s best-known craft brewers has outlined ambitious plans to build a new facility in Alloa which will future-proof it for the next two decades. Williams Bros hopes to build a brewery capable of producing up to 200,000 hectolitres annually on a greenfield...