We look ahead to next week's European Council and the Peoples Vote March on 20 October.

Before the UK left the European Union, the beer, which makes up 80 per cent of his stock, would have arrived within 10 to 14 days 'without a hitch'.

Wetherspoon's — one of the U.K.'s largest pub chains — admitted this week that they were struggling to keep some major beer brands in stock.

Britain needs 100,000 more drivers if it is to meet demand, according to the UK's Road Haulage Association (RHA). The signs are already there: sporadic gaps on supermarket shelves, pubs running low on beer, McDonald's suspending milkshakes.

A POPULAR Brighton pub has closed due to the rising cost of electricity bills and “Brexit nonsense”. / Management cited various reasons for the closure including the rise in energy costs, Brexit and “other issues” which meant they did not expect to survive.

A Kent brewery says it has seen a 95% drop in export sales since the UK left the EU.

This week's Brexit downsides: half a billion in extra costs to import food, the collapse of trade talks with Canada and more.

It comes as a British wine wholesaler ‘left Brexitland for good’ over paperwork, and is flourishing by all accounts.

It is more than a month since the UK's new trading relationship with the European Union (EU) came into being but the transition has been far from easy for some businesses. From being told to set up operations in Europe, having goods stuck in port and facing increased costs to clear the border, three North East firms reveal the reality of adapting to the new rules.

Leaving the EU has “massively handicapped UK companies that do business in Europe", James Watt has said.

BrewDog CEO James Watt has warned that Brexit “has been tragic for UK business”, including his own.

The BBC has spoken to three companies that trade heavily with the UK, to find out what changes consumers can expect after Brexit.

Brexit-backing Wetherspoon has become the latest business to be hit by supply chain issues as the pub giant faces shortages of popular beer brands.

Heineken and Carlsberg follow makers of Carling and Budweiser in hiking cost of their beers in face of weak pound

‘Everything’s just a lot more difficult and it’s costing us more’

Amazon has stopped selling wines, beers and spirits to its customers in Northern Ireland as it wrestles with new customs rules post-Brexit.