Britons drank 117m fewer pints of beer in the three months to September this year than in 2011, despite a strong summer of sport that included the Olympics and the Euro 2012 football.
According to the British Beer & Pub Association?s (BBPA) latest UK quarterly beer barometer beer sales fell by 5.6pc in the third quarter, putting jobs in the brewing and pub sector at risk. Sales of beer in pubs fell by 4.8pc, equivalent to 51m fewer pints than in 2011, while supermarkets and off-licence sales were down by 6.5pc.
The figures have given pressure groups more ammunition with which to attack the Government?s high beer taxes. MPs will today push for a full Parliamentary debate on the impact of the beer duty escalator, following a petition for it to be scrapped signed by 100,000 people.
It's a real shame because they have been around for year's and have history, government is taking far more tax then we can effort hear in north over half the pubs have closed and we will not be able to see any more pubs open in the next few years.
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