Almost 200 new breweries have opened in the past year, boosting the number of beers produced in the UK to more than 5,200, a report has revealed.

As a festival of Irish craft brewing begins, Joe McNamee clinks glasses and compares tasting notes with Ireland’s new breed of quality micro-brewers.

UK beer sales in pubs are at their lowest level since the 1930s, brewers said today.

Scotland's largest independent regional brewer Belhaven is being taken over by Greene King in a £187m (€275.7m) deal, it was announced today.

Beer campaigners in England today urged shareholders in Lake District brewer Jennings to block an agreed £45.8m (€67.3m) takeover by Wolverhampton & Dudley Breweries.

Wolverhampton & Dudley Breweries today said it had agreed a £45.8m (€67.3m) takeover of Lake District brewer and pubs group Jennings Brothers.

A Scottish beer has won the title for the best brew in Britain.