British Beer and Pub Association

Also, drowning your sorrows, as it could appear, would appear there's going to be an increase in the prices of a pint.

Emma McClarkin is from the British Beer and Pub Association.

We want our customers to be able to afford to come in and visit us.

And why? Because that money means we can invest in our businesses.

I think that was one thing.

I think the second thing that I tried to convey was that racing needs a growth plan and if you look at my career it's been very much about trying to take things that weren't necessarily high growth industries you know beer and brewing around the territories that I was working with often low to no growth businesses and trying to take that context and drive growth was always a challenge but one I enjoyed and then I think they understandably were looking for someone who had some I suppose, political experience and smarts, which, you know, over my course of, again, time in the brewing industry and working with government with the British Beer and Pub Association I had.

So I never I didn't know what the other candidates were bringing.

So I wasn't sure I was positioning myself as the best, but I wanted to position myself as someone who could cover those bases, really.

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Britain is losing pubs at a rate of almost one a day, according to new figures from the British Beer and Pub Association.

The BBPA estimates that around 360 pubs will close permanently by the end of 2026, potentially resulting in 5,000 job losses, more than half of them affecting under 25s.

By the end of September, 295 pubs had already shut their doors, including 226 in England, 64 in Scotland, and five in Wales.

Um, obviously it's a good thing for, um, these pub lobbyists to campaign on, but it's not good for us.

Um, it is, it's a scary statistic, and yeah, the British Beer and Pub Association, uh, saying that this is proof that, um, Burnham has to c- tackle the root causes of the problem.

I mean, I, I would say pubs have probably, uh, fared the best out of Burnham- Mm.

Mm

Britain is set to lose a pub every day in 2026 after almost 300 permanently closed down in the first nine months of the year.

This is according to the British Beer and Pub Association.

An existing flooding task force has been told to start looking at drought as well.

The newly rebranded Flood and Drought Resilience Task Force will meet for the first time on Wednesday.

[upbeat music] And welcome back for episode 44 of Pursuing the Perfect Pint podcast.

And this week we're hearing about, from Emma from the British Beer and Pub Association, and really what does it mean to be a pub, the role of the pub, and, uh, how we should be adapting.

But before we get into that, Brent, uh, market update this week.

Yeah.

Okay.

Well, the Pursuit of the Perfect Pint is now taking a little short journey over to the UK, and we're gonna have a discussion about the UK, uh, beer, and particularly the, the pub environment.

So Emma McClarkin from, from the, uh, chief executive officer of the British Beer and Pub Association.

You can fill in a bit more with that, Emma.