Britain’s beer drinkers can serve as role models for the nation as it struggles to emerge from recession, according to an academic study.

By James Thompson Pub drinkers may be downing less beer than at any time for 70 years, but the drinks business is not feeling as flat as one might expect.

By Alex Turner BREWERS, like bookies and bankers, find sympathy in short supply when times get tough.

By Alistair Houghton THE UK'S brewing sector has had little to cheer of late, as it battles an economic "perfect storm" of performance-sapping conditions.

By Darren Devine Beer sales in pubs are at their lowest level since the 1930s, brewers say today. Seven million fewer pints a day are now being sold in Britain compared to the beer market's 1979 peak - a 22% drop.