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Biodiversity at Liberty The EU casts off the chains of uniformity
9 January 2023

How farmers in Belgium and the south of France are taking advantage of new a EU regulation to become more sustainable

Big beer may not be beautiful
23 April 2019

Beer-drinkers in the UK who thought that consolidation and “crafty” brews were an evil to be found only in the USA will be distressed by news in today’s Guardian: British craft beer boom stalls as big drinks companies muscle in. The paper says that only eight new breweries opened in the UK in the past […]

Eight Degrees of assimilation Buying a brewer for the barrels not the beer
7 June 2018

Why would a big drinks giant buy a craft brewer? Maybe not for the obvious reasons. Or maybe not only for the obvious reasons.

Who owns whom in the food industry Made from concentrate
30 April 2018

The number of firms that own the food brands you see is much smaller than you think. That’s not good for consumers or suppliers.

Crafty beer marketing
23 March 2018

Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, they say. But it can also debase a good thing, and it is definitely happening to craft beer.

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