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The ‘List Your Local’ initiative follows an arson attack on the Crooked House in South Staffordshire.

FOR local craft brewers, getting beer out to those who want to drink it isn’t as easy as you might think.

SMALL brewers from around the north have combined their voices in calling for an end to the legal barriers to selling beer directly to the public, labelling the current law as “outdated” and “unfair”.

PUB bosses have urged Northern Ireland Secretary of State Karen Bradley and Shadow Secretary Tony Lloyd to intervene on the knee jerk ‘special event’ consultation by the Department for Communities and to address what they see as the north's outdated liquor licensing laws.

THE Belfast Beer and Cider Festival is 18 years old this year – old enough to be of legal drinking age, you might say – and once again the array of brews on offer next weekend is sure to entice discerning drinkers through the Ulster Hall this weekend.

ENTERING a well-appointed pub and seeing a row of ornate hand pumps lined up behind the bar was something Trevor Burton took for granted in his native Kent.