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With the fantastic Cellar Bright cleaning system installed the beer and lagers are always in top form with no wastage and no contact with cleaning fluids. As a new business and with Camra Good beer Guide 2012 entry , I can not recommend the Cellar Bright system enough ,the normal half day cleaning chore can now be constantly cleaned as we change the beers and lagers by my self or by my wife. Great service quick and easy installation with no problems.
Richard and Charlotte Duddle
Owners and Publicans www.therisingsunmossley.co.uk

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As prices increase, the need for licensees to serve a good quality pint
every time has never been greater. But no amount of fancy cellar kit will
do any good if staff aren’t using it properly. Phil Mellows reports

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THE Committee at Acomb Working Men’s Club in York have just celebrated a rare event. They have turned regular losses and debts of £173,000 into a surplus of £53,000!

This has been achieved by scrupulously managing costs, running profitable events and embracing money-saving ideas. As well as installing a heating and control system from Envtec they have saved a fortune by using the CellarBright Automatic beer line cleaning system, which Club Secretary John Lane saw for the first time at the CIU Beer & Trades Exhibition in Blackpool…

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CellarBright would like to cordially invite you to attend a demonstration event of their automatic beer line cleaning system

On Tuesday 12th July 2011 12-2pm

The Cuban Bar
The Stables Market
Chalk Farm Road
Camden
London
NW1 8AH

This is a GREAT opportunity to let us show you how the system can reduce you wastage,
improve your beer quality and save time! It’s also a great opportunity to network with other
publicans and industry professionals.
If you would like to come along, please reserve your space by emailing Hance McGhie, contact details below.
We look forward to meeting with you!

Hance McGhie
CellarBright
hmcghie@cellarbright.co.uk
0845 626 2290 or call Hance directly on 07740 367029

Budget 2011 response – CAMRA, The Campaign for Real Ale
CAMRA – ‘Beer duty and VAT on beer over £1 per pub pint for first time!’

• • Today’s announcement adds 10p to average pint in the pub
• • Consumers to see more low strength beers in pubs after tax on beers at or below 2.8% ABV is halved
• • New CAMRA pre-Budget research shows British consumers on average paying £2.84 on a pint of real ale in a pub, and £3.02 for lager

CAMRA, the Campaign for Real Ale, has today hit out at the Government’s decision to impose a damaging 7.2% increase in beer duty. The average duty and VAT on a pub pint will now exceed £1!

In a mixed day for Britain’s beer drinkers, CAMRA has also welcomed plans to halve taxation on beers at or below 2.8% ABV, but has opposed a further tax increase of 25% on beers at 7.5% ABV and above.

Another reason to consider Cellarbright.

Pubs could be forced to add 10p or more to the price of a pint this year as a combination of wholesale price rises, the VAT hike and duty increases hit home.

The Morning Advertiser (MA) revealed this week wholesale drinks prices from major suppliers will rise up to 7p per pint in January and February, with many citing rising production costs.

A snap survey of 125 licensees on morningadvertiser.co.uk found that just under two-thirds of licensees will increase prices for standard lagers by 6p to 10p per pint this year.

For premium lager, one in five respondents said they plan to increase prices by 11p to 20p per pint.

The British Beer & Pub Association estimated that the VAT rise and duty increases alone would add 6p per pint.

Beer duty will increase by a further 5% — adding 8p a pint at the pumps — as the Chancellor delivered yet another dagger to the heart of the pub and brewing industry.

The increase takes effect from Sunday. Duty on cider will be increased by 10% above inflation (13%) to address the tax “anomaly”.

Changes to the definition of cider are also planned to ensure stronger variants are taxed more heavily.

Alastair Darling ignored pleas from the industry and ploughed ahead with his controversial duty escalator — meaning duty will rise 2% above the projected inflation for September, amounting to a rise of 5%. Duty has risen 20% over the past two years already.

Pub companies have been given until June 2011 to implement major reform or face statutory regulation, the Business Skills and Innovation Committee has warned.

The revised pubco report stressed that the Committee remained “firm in its resolve to see real reform in the pub industry”.

“The industry must be aware that this is its last opportunity for self-regulated reform,” it said. “If it cannot deliver this time, then government intervention will be necessary.

MPs are to debate the problems facing pubs in Parliament next Tuesday (23 February).

Conservative MP Nigel Evans hopes new pubs minister John Healey will attend his Westminster Hall debate, entitled the Future of the British pub.

Evans, vice chairman of the All-Party Parliamentary Beer Group, said he expects the debate to cover ”all the major reasons” pubs are closing.

“I know the number of closures has slowed a bit but it’s still far too many and the problems that existed for a while are still there.

One city analyst has upgraded Mitchells & Butlers (M&B) to buy in the belief that an era of stability will now break out following the recent boardroom wranglings.

Geof Collyer of Desutsche Bank said the upgrade was not without risk but that he now hoped all would work together for the good of the stakeholders.

At its recent AGM, Simon Laffin was replaced by John Lovering as chairman. Also appointed onto the board were Jeremy Blood, Michael Balfour and Simon Burke after months of bickering between the M&B board and its largest investor Piedmont.