date:Jul 24, 2012
UK beer sales fell about 5% in the second quarter of this year, with poor weather and misguided tax hikes being blamed.
Despite strong trading around the jubilee weekend and Euro 2012, on-trade sales were down 4.6% year-on-year, while off-trade sales fell 5.9% in the three months to June. The British Beer Pub Association, which published the figures today (24 July), said beer drinkers consumed the equivalent of 115 million fewer pints than in the same period last year.
Brigid Simmonds, the B