Our ‘Focus Features’ aim to shine a light on the previous winners of SIBA’s Business Awards in the run up to the launch of the 2018 SIBA Business & Industry Awards on 1st November 2017. 360 Degrees Brewing Best Total Concept Design 2017 In one of the most hotly contested categories, 360 Degree Brewing were […]
St Austell Brewery has chosen Drink-IT to address the constant changes and challenges within the brewing industry and to support its continued long-term growth. St Austell Brewery is on a growth journey, and recognised that their current infrastructure and operational processes need to be reinvented to support their growing, dynamic business. They knew that intelligent […]
Until recently the majority of smaller craft brewers have sold their beer predominantly in casks. Beer in cask has is very much seen as the traditional method getting beer to market and has the smallest requirement in terms of capital equipment. In recent years kegs have become available to ‘hire’ on a per use basis […]
Steam boiler manufacturer, CFB Boilers, has launched a budget-friendly reverse osmosis unit, the BoilerRO, which is capable of achieving almost 100% purity of boiler feedwater for superior quality steam. Designed in Britain by CFB Boilers, the BoilerRO costs around half that of many comparable units, making reverse osmosis accessible to brewers that may previously have […]
As Craft Breweries grow, the cost of poor quality & consistency increases, forcing you to collect more quality datapoints for ever larger production volumes. Paper & spreadsheet systems simply aren’t scalable, accurate or reliable. This short (20 minute) webinar will detail how Brewers: · Receive instant, relevant information on the performance of the brewing process […]
Turpin Brewery in Cambridge and Tring Brewery in Hertfordshire have taken home the two top spots at the SIBA East Independent Beer Awards, taking home overall Gold in the cask and small pack competitions respectively. The prestigious awards, run by the Society of Independent Brewers (SIBA), held at Elgood’s Brewery in Wisbech prior to their […]
For the past ten years, Real Ale, the specialist craft beer retailer based in Twickenham and Little Venice, has been an official supplier agent to M&S. Real Ale helps the multi-national retailer source a range of beers and ciders from smaller craft and regional brewers and has recently been instrumental in launching two new own-label […]
Any commercial craft brewer would say they care about quality (if you’re a craft brewer and disagree with this statement, please let me know so that I can stop drinking your beer). But let’s dissect that a little. What does your quality assurance scheme achieve? What does it tell you? And what would you like […]
10% off delegate ticket price for SIBA Members Beer Matters, the new trade show and conference for the business of brewing takes place in Edinburgh next week and organisers are in the final stages of preparing for a full day of networking, discussion and debate. With the trade show now sold out to 30 exhibitors […]
We all know that craft brewery is growing at an astonishing rate. For successful UK craft breweries such as BrewDog, Cloudwater and Hop Stuff, posting turnover growth of 50-100% is regarded as business as usual. SIBA’s annual survey reports 64% of respondents expecting to grow turnover in 2017. And with Big Beer getting in on […]