UK Pub Decline Bolstered By Small Breweries

The Campaign for Real Ale has reported that despite the decline in beer sales and the closure of around 6 pubs a week, there are over 1,250 new pubs and 71 new breweries in their Good Beer Guide 2010. The 37th Guide is launched today and reviews more than 4500 pubs across the UK.

The new breweries are adding to the enormous diversity of UK beers which leads Europe in its range of ales, milds, bitters and stouts. The real ale revival has been particularly felt in Yorkshire; According to Camra,West Yorkshire now boasts 34 operations – the most of any county – and with North Yorkshire close behind on 28, the rapid growth of recent years shows no sign of slowing.

This is good news for Yorkshire where the closure of Tetley Brewery in Leeds was announced by Carlsburg UK earlier this year. It is thought that the closure of the one of the larger brewers may further stimulate the micro brewery market in Yorkshire, which boasts many Freehouses which suppport the micro breweries.

Paramount Investments have a number of pubs for sale in Yorkshire;

Moulders Arms, Barnsley, South Yorkshire £110,000 Freehold

Royal George Hotel, Rotherham, South Yorkshire £150,000+Vat

Goldsborough, Bradford, West Yorkshire £160,000+Vat

Albion, Wakefield, West Yorkshire £165 Freehold

Old Oak Tree,Thirsk, North Yorkshire £360,000 Freehold