The cost of a pint of beer is set to rise by up to 16% over the rest of the year, after the summer's heatwave damaged barley crops driving premiums up.
After it relaunched Bud Light in the UK last year, AB InBev is bringing its low alcohol Michelob Ultra beer back to British shores to cash in on rising demand for non-alcoholic and light beers.
Beer production at breweries in Hokkaido was halted due to major power failures following a 6.7 magnitude earthquake that jolted through the northern part of Japan last week.
Cricketers Stuart Broad and Harry Gurney, who teamed up with pub manager Dan Cramp in 2016 to launch The Cat and Wickets Pub Company, are to open the group's second pub, The Tap and Run, later this month.