PUB19 - Visit

PUB₁₉ is set to take place on 05-06 February 2019. Please note the event is 18+ only.
PUB launched in 2015 to celebrate the UK pub industry's innovations, trends, products, services and people. By bringing together key trade associations, business leaders, decision makers, pub owners, entrepreneurs and pub companies, PUB₁₉ aims to offer advice and solutions to those in the UK pub industry.
View highlights from PUB₁₈ here.

What PUB₁₉ has in store

PUB Talks

Across 2 stages, industry heavyweights discuss hot topics such as investment, online marketing, recruitment and more.

Beer Writers Bar

Curated by some of the UK's favourite beer sommeliers, the Beer Writers Bar offers insight and opportunities to meet regional brewers from across the UK.

The PUB Garden

The PUB Garden is the perfect networking spot, hosting suppliers helping publicans to take their great outdoor offering up a notch

New Brew Area

Discover the latest brewers showcasing the newest drinks and freshest innovations all aimed at revolutionising your offering.

Taste Table

Pick up some tips and tastings aimed at those looking for advice, training and inspiration around food & drink.

Wine & Spirit Lounge

Check out a selection of unique wine and spirits suppliers, all aimed at giving your premises the edge against the competition.

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What

20+ free seminars featuring over 50 expert industry speakers, alongside 200 unique suppliers.

Free to attend

PUB₁₉ is free to attend. Registration will open in Autumn. : If you want to receive a notification when registration goes live, please sign up to our newsletter

What

View PUB₁₈Highlights

Over 200 Exhibitors

When

Tuesday 5 February 2019
10:00 - 17:00

Wednesday 6 February 2019
10:00 - 17:00

Who

Attendees at PUB₁₈ included...

Punch Taverns / Wetherspoons / Mitchells & Butler / EI Group / Geronimo Inns / Yummy Pub Co. / Greene King / Stonegate / Marston’s / Young’s / Star Pubs & Bars / Tesco / New World Trading Co. / Shepherd Neame / Charles Wells / Alexandra Palace / Oakman Inns / Fuller's / Pitcher & Piano, plus thousands of independent publicans from across the UK

Where

Central Level 1, Olympia Exhibition Centre, Hammersmith Road, London, W14 8UX

Olympia is located in the centre of London, on Hammersmith Road, near High Street Kensington.

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Pub Fact

At any given time, 0.7% of the world is drunk. So 50 million people are drunk right now
Egyptian pyramid workers were paid with beer - 8 pints day, or 2,920 pints a year!
Beer and pubs contribute £22bn to UK GDP and generate £13bn in tax revenue.
In total the beer and pub sector supports almost 900,000 jobs. 46% of those employed in the sector are 16-24 year olds.
For every 10 drinks sold in a pub, 7 are beer, 1 is wine, 1 is cider and 1 is spirits
At the Wife Carrying World Championships, first prize is the wife's weight in beer.
Winston Churchill called the concept of Prohibition_"an affront to the whole history of mankind."
In the Middle Ages beer was consumed more than water as the alcohol made it safer
The world's longest hangover lasted 4 weeks after a Scotsman consumed 60 pints of beer
More Guinness beer is drunk in Nigeria than Ireland.
In 1814, almost 400,000 gallons of beer flooded several streets in London after a huge vat ruptured in the parish of St. Giles.
There are about 400 types of beer in the world.
Belgium has the most individual beer brands.
The worlds oldest known recipe is for beer.
There is a cloud of alcohol in the outer space which is enough to make four trillion-trillion drinks.
Around 19,000 of Britains 48,000 pubs are run by PubCos such as Enterprise Inns and Punch Taverns
There are 49,500 pubs in the UK
Around 13 million tourists visit pubs every year
82% of the beer sold in the UK is made here
20 million pints of beer are enjoyed every day in Britain
Over £120 million is raised for charity in pubs each year
There are 1113 breweries operating in Britain
There are 729 Red Lion pubs in Britain
There are 1 million jobs supported by the pub industry
1 job in brewing generates 1 job in agriculture, 1 in the supply chain, 1 in retailing and 18 in pubs.
Beer was once consumed hot.
Exposure to light makes beer go bad.
There are 2,500 different real ales in the UK
There are currently 8.6 million regular drinkers of real ale in the country
There are now more than 700 real ale brewers in the UK, the highest number since the war and four times as many as in 1971 (when CAMRA was launched).
In 1850, the first beer bottle was sold
The oldest beer advertisement was found on a clay tablet from 4000 BC
Until 1963, it was illegal to brew at home in the UK without a licence.
The UK is the fifth-highest per capita drinking nation in the world (after Czech Republic, Germany, Ireland and Austria).
In the 13th Century monks at St. Pauls brewed 67,814 gallons of beer a year
Henry VIII's Hampton Court entourage drunk 13,000 pints each day
IPA was brewed to be shipped to the colonies
The earliest known building on the site of 10 Downing Street was a brewery
There are more craft beer bars in London than Berlin
Kennington brewery Two Fingers gives its profits to Prostate Cancer UK
The original Guinness brewery in Dublin, Ireland has a 6,000 year lease