MPs have accused McDonalds of undermining the "Great British pub" by buying up boozers and converting them into fast-food outlets. The burger giant...

George Osborne is to face another round of calls to scrap the beer duty escalator in the 2013 Budget. The TaxPayers Alliance has stepped up a campa...

Carlsberg, the fourth largest brewer in the world, has blamed a 3% reduction in British sales on the wash-out summer of 2012, which cancelled out the ...

Is dry January harming the alcohol industry? The phenomenon, popular with city workers but increasingly being adopted by adults outside of the sou...

Beer sales have fallen for the eighth year in a row, with 381 million fewer pints being drunk in 2012, according to a new study. The British Beer a...

UK pub chain Marston's reported a 1.2% increase in like-for-like sales at its pubs for the 16 weeks to 19 January, helped by a 3.5% growth in food sal...

The row over the amount of tax pubs have to pay looks set to rear its head again after JD Wetherspoon has blamed a profits squeeze on higher tax bills...

Festive spirits were clearly on the menu for pub group Greene King after it reported record Christmas bookings and strong like-for-like sales across t...

The owner of the All Bar One, Harvester and O’Neill’s chains has reported that end of year pre-tax profits are up to £162m from £156m last year....

Lager sales volumes in Europe improved by 9% for SABMiller, driven by selective price reductions and growth in the sector. The British owner of Pil...

The Treasury is unlikely to remove the crippling beer duty escalator tax despite an impassioned 180 minute debate in the House of Commons and a unanim...

All Party Parliamentary Beer Group chairman Andrew Griffiths MP will call for a full Parliamentary debate on the impact of beer taxes, following a pet...

In the first part of The Business of British Booze, the Huffington Post UK investigated the rise of British beer producers throughout the recession. I...

In this, the first of a two-part series looking at the business of British booze, Huffington Post UK explores the rise of UK breweries, and asks what ...

Nightclubs and pubs where violent fights regularly break out should be forced to serve drinks in plastic bottles and cups, an MP believes. Labour's...