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🍺⭐️ 🥳YOU CAN NOW RATE ANY BEER AT ANY TIME 🥳 ⭐️🍺 We have finally added the new feature to The Beer Explorers rating website! We have wanted this feature for a while as it allows users to rate any beer at any time. This means users are no longer limited to only rating beers at festivals or bound by the beers prepopulated on the website. This is great as we can now recommend beers after beer festivals to attendees that they didn't try at the event and see how much they like our recommendations! As always you can then track all your beer reviews through "Your Ratings". This new feature is beautifully demonstrated in the video below! #beerexplorers #beernerd #beerstagram #beersuk #beerrating

Another glorious summer day, another day with our beloved village local closed. Although I do get a sense that there might be something in the offing. We'll see. Watch this space. In the meantime, I'm adding a beer and venue guide to Beer Today. Not to replace any other guide, just as a standalone guide to which venues (pubs, bars, taprooms) are consistently great, and which beers (which must be available all the time or make regular appearances) are really unmissable. Let me know by emailing darren.norbury@gmail.com or via DM. Your suggestion(s) must include a reason behind the nomination, and all will be checked out thoroughly, of course, before being added to the guide. Go! #beer #pubs #cider #bars #taprooms #recommendations

You may only need one idea to change everything. …here’s an idea from a beer festival. 👇 I was an invited guest to a special beer festival. I’ve never been into a brewery before, so it was really nice that it was held in the Joseph Holt brewery itself in Manchester. The beer festival was part of Joseph Holt’s 175th anniversary celebrations. To make it easy for everyone they converted one of the brewery rooms into one long bar. As you can see from the picture it was jam packed full of different beers. There was a lot of choice. It was easy to see what the choices were. They made sure everyone could clearly see what was on offer. And that’s the idea. It’s so easy for us to assume that our existing customers know what we do. The thing is - they probably don’t. And if they don’t know then they can’t or won’t buy. 💥 What can you do to remind your existing customers of everything you do ? 💥 Just like the beer festival… …..reminding them of everything that you offer, might just mean more sales and more cash coming into your business. ❤️ Share if this is helpful 🔥 Follow me on LinkedIn for more content on pricing, profit and creating a better business.

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So here we are! We Are Beer Industry. After a decade of pure drinker focus, this is our new venture to give more value to the industry I LOVE. 🍻 So, what is it? A year round series of Insight reports and events, that wraps with the Industry Expo and Conference, which will be precede LCBF in July '25 to form Europe's most important beer week. Accessed via a Membership, the benefit is a year long stream of inspiration and insight designed to help business strategy - accessible to beer businesses of ALL SIZES and HYPER-RELEVANT to their needs. What do you get as member? A hell of a lot. Reports, impactful insight, events, learning, networking. This is full access to tap into what we do at We Are Beer. Click below for the itemised list. Why is this unique? It's born of the industry, for the industry. From the insights to the events, relevance is the word of the day. And at We Are Beer we have skin in the game, access to brilliant data and networks to run into insight. Modern beer is an industry built of creative connections. Together, we are beer.

"Maybe I don’t need to convince you that beer media is valuable; after all, you’re reading a beer website right now. But it’s worth taking a moment to appreciate how a strong and varied beer media benefits the industry... "Those hangers-on to the beer industry who publish and broadcast and post about beer and everything to do with it? Well, they make the beer industry stronger and more creative than it could ever be without them. Brewers make better beer. More people buy beer. And when we see each other’s humanity, I like to think we all treat each other a little better as a result, too." Plus, the people who won Best Media trophy at the AIBAs for the past 10 years share some cool insights into the beer scene - now, over the past ten years or so, and looking forward. Who'd have thunk that people who immerse themselves in the beer world and think and write and talk about beer would have good things to say?

Great read from the viewpoint of media (writers, podcasters) on the beer industry. The answers to questions about surprising ways the industry has developed and what stories we should be talking more about are insightful, especially the comment about fresh beers. Cheers, The Crafty Pint!

𝐁𝐞𝐞𝐫 𝐃𝐚𝐲 🍻 Cheers to International Beer Day! 🍻 Today, we celebrate the diverse and delightful world of beer. From rich stouts to crisp lagers, sour ales to refreshing non-alcoholic options, there’s a brew for everyone! Back in 2007, Jesse Avshalomov and his friends were enjoying a casual day of conversation and beers in Santa Cruz, California, when they conceived the idea of International Beer Day. Their vision was simple: 1. Bring friends together to appreciate the taste of beer. 2. Honor those who craft and serve our favorite brews. 3. Create a global celebration of beers from every culture, uniting people around the world. Fun Ways to Celebrate: • 🍲 Cook with Beer: Experiment with beer-infused recipes, like beer-battered fish, beer cheese soup, or a rich stout stew. • 🎮 Beer-themed Games: Host a beer trivia night or organize a beer pong tournament with friends. • 🌟 Beer and Food Pairing: Plan a beer and food pairing dinner, matching different beers with complementary dishes. • 📚 Learn More: Read a book or watch a documentary about the history and craft of beer brewing. • 🌎 Virtual Cheers: If you can’t meet in person, organize a virtual beer tasting session with friends from around the world. Why We Love International Beer Day: • A beer for every budget and preference. • Cherished memories at reunions, backyard cookouts, and get-togethers. Did You Know? • 📜 The oldest known recipe for beer dates back over 4,000 years to ancient Mesopotamia. • 🌟 The key ingredients of beer—water, barley, hops, and yeast—have remained largely unchanged for centuries. • 🗺 The German Beer Purity Law of 1516, Reinheitsgebot, is one of the oldest food regulations still in use today. • 🚀 Astronauts have brewed beer in space! The Vostok Space Beer project is working on creating a beer suitable for drinking in microgravity. So, how are you celebrating today? Share your favorite beer stories, tag your friends, and let’s toast to the incredible world of beer! 🍻 #Cheers #DrinkResponsibly #InternationalBeerDay #BeerDay #BeerDayCelebrations #Beerfest #BeerDayFest

Flights are not just for airplanes. Oh no. Go to a brewery and there's a good chance you'll be able to get a flight -- a selection of four or five beers in small glasses. If you're the first one at a winery on a Tuesday morning, you can get a wine flight at 10:45 am. It's true. You can get a flght of hard apple cider or even a mead flight if you're in the right place. That would be a place that sells mead. The beer flight, however, is not universally embraced among brewers. Why not? They have their reasons -- they are explained in this article from InsideHook (https://lnkd.in/eKqip_ug) -- which may or not be completely valid. They're not, by the way. Glassware? Temperature? Complicated? The article offers this view on flight complexity: "Young beer drinkers generally often don’t have the ability to make such decisions about what they want to try. 'Put yourself in the perspective of someone who just turned 21,' he says. 'You go to a brewery and see 18 taps? … It’s so overwhelming. They want simplicity. So, they typically just order whatever their friend tells them to get.' " First rule of Beer Club: If Beer Club is too complicated, stay away from Beer Club.

Is the Beerfest dead? No, probably not. But, we are seeing signs of change. The Brewers Association is reducing the Great American Beer Festival (GABF) to three sessions from four, eliminating Saturday evening. Brewers are also being invited to pour RTD cocktails and similar beverages. The big venue, beer-only Beerfest will live on in a new iteration, with more beverage options, fewer events throughout the year, and fewer attendees. Maybe the latter is a bonus for fest-goers looking for elbow room or intimacy in their events, just not for fest organizers who budget for hordes of thirsty folks. Will you be going to GABF this year?