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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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'.

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

"A combination of the Covid-19 pandemic, Brexit and other factors have led to unresolvable supply chain issues for critical elements of the festival infrastructure," organisers said on Twitter.

The owner of a popular Bury St Edmunds shop which specialises in European beers fears he may have to close after Brexit related red tape depleted his stock.

Drinks industry reiterates concerns after minister refuses to provide latest on efforts to resolve HGV driver shortage.

The artisan brewing business based in Kinloss, Morayshire, founded by Heather McDonald, has suffered “unsustainable cash flow problems” arising from the rapid contraction of the global hospitality and licensed trade industry and problems and costs for exporters arising from Brexit.

To mark the first anniversary of the trade deal between the UK and the EU, Downing Street issued a press release about how prime minister Boris Johnson plans to "maximise the benefits of Brexit".

But over the course of the year, a crisis, fuelled by the decision to leave the European Union, has been steadily, stealthily, stretching its tentacles around many of the services and products we expect and rely on.

What has changed in the 31 days since the UK left and how has it impacted consumers and businesses?

New changes to alcohol duty in the UK take effect today, with some drinks set to see their biggest price increase in almost 50 years.

Rishi Sunak says he wants to protect the price of your pint - but membership in the EU didn’t stop him.

Christine also mentions Tim Martin's newspaper regarding sourcing drinks from outside of the EU, which can already be done freely. There's no EU duty of beer or spirits.

The Old Dairy Brewery in Tenterden, Kent, is suffering from Brexit, and is ready to pull out of exporting to EU countries. ... But now they are finding it too costly and onerous to comply with all those procedures. Brexit, they say, has reduced their exports by 95%.

Owners of a Liverpool restaurant have spoken out about the 'perfect storm' of Brexit and Covid-19 that is currently 'washing over' the hospitality industry.

The company was set up in 2015 by businesswoman Heather McDonald and specialised in "100% natural, vegan-friendly beers".

Scotland's licensed trade sector has condemned sweeping alcohol tax changes brought in today under the Conservatives "Brexit Pub Guarantee" as "naive and fanciful".

A Morayshire craft brewer that had built up a loyal following for its distinctive beers has fallen into administration amid hospitality and Brexit headwinds.

Pub boss Harvey Melia had to axe a virtual beer tasting session after 100 cans of foreign ale ended up trapped at Customs, apparently because of new post-Brexit regulations.

Data published 22 March by UK Food & Drink Federation showed exports of food & drink to the EU from the UK dropped by more than 75 per cent in January. Our Somerset business correspondent has been tracking Brexit’s impact since the start of the year. Look out for his next article to be published in the next few days.

Heineken said strike action was actually cancelled – and that wider supply chain problems were the cause of the delays.

JD Wetherspoon has become the latest victim of the supply chain crisis with bosses yesterday confirming a nationwide beer shortage due to a lack of delivery staff fuelled by Britain’s withdrawal from the EU.

I have been looking at how our local SMEs have been coping with the new post-Brexit trading arrangements which have come on top of the challenges posed by the Covid-19 crisis.

Wrexham Lager can’t deliver to the Republic of Ireland because of Brexit, the firm has announced.

With supply chain problems being blamed on workers self-isolating, Caolan Robertson reports on what business owners, managers and labourers have been telling him across the country about the consequences of Brexit.

As Brexit has created tough challenges for UK craft beer producers exporting to Europe, British companies have set up home in the mountains.

Fownes Brewery in Brierley Hill is one of many which has felt the effects of the UK leaving the European Union, with co-owner James Fownes detailing some of the issues he's had to face.

Operators are both baffled and annoyed with the chancellor's supposed assistance. / "To conflate this with Brexit is complete nonsense. They either want to help the pubs or not. If you want a link to Brexit, the damage done is far worse than the freezing of some duty."