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The strength and innovation of European breweries shone through in the annual Top 100 Brewers awards by review website RateBeer. British brewer Cloudwater had particular cause to celebrate, placing second overall in the awards system that is based on a summary score of reviews from people using the website from around the globe. Cloudwater’s managing director and co-founder, Paul Jones, was obviously delighted and in a blog on the brewery’s website explained how the company

London-based Signature Brew is yet again supporting Independent Venue Week (IVW) – a week-long celebration of over 200 music venues across the country from 29 January. Signature, which has its roots in making beer with music, will be supplying beer to IVW events for the third year running and hoping to help give venues a boost on what is traditionally the quietest week of the year. Signature Brew co-founder Tom Bott explained: “It’s a terrific event and a great way for us to

Beer-based social media brand Untappd has revealed the top 10 most checked-in craft breweries and top 10 most checked-in craft beers by its users for 2017. The list encompasses many familiar faces and a few surprise names, with the total number of the check-ins across the lists totalling more than 10 million. They are both American-dominated lists, but then the app probably has more US-based users than most. Your mission Hopulist readers, should you choose to accept it,

A host of top breweries from around the country will descend on Sheffield for the city’s fourth annual Sheffield Beer Week, set to take place from 12 to 18 March. Neepsend, Thornbrige, Abbeydale, Beavertown, Marble and Wild Beer Co have all confirmed their attendance for the event, which will also celebrate several key themes including: women working in the beer industry, beer ingredient hubs, Norwich City of Ale Partnership and a Yorkshire beer photography trail. The event w

Whether it’s a city break, golf trip or just bronzing yourself in the year-round sunshine, Portugal is one of Europe’s most popular destinations. In fact, each year over 11 million tourists visit the country with Lisbon and the Algarve high on the bucket list. For many of those visitors, enjoying a nice cold beer in the sun means sampling either one of Portugal’s mainstream lagers Sagres or Super Bock… or does it? Hopulist’s latest visit revealed a hop revolution is taking ho

Fancy drinking a beer that is so fresh it has a best before end date of just four days? That is what is on offer from leading craft beer distributor EeBriaTrade after it announced a partnership with Hertfordshire-based brewer Odyssey Brew Co to supply what the two companies claim to be the shortest dated beer ever produced in the UK. KO (Kegged On) IPA is the heavily-hopped beer in question and will have a best before end date of just four days – meaning that once it is kegge