Backyard Brewhouse & Thornbridge named best brewers in Midlands at SIBA Independent Beer Awards

Backyard Brewhouse in Walsall and Thornbridge Brewery in Bakewell have taken home the two top spots at the SIBA Midlands 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 Nottingham Rugby Club prior to their beer festival, are judged by brewers and beer experts and seen very much as the ‘brewers choice’ awards in the industry.

Backyard Brewhouse’s aptly named ‘Gold’ took home the overall Gold in the cask competition and Thornbridge brewery’s AM:PM was named overall small pack (bottle and can) winner.

Commenting on the competition was SIBA Competitions Committee Chair Guy Sheppard, who presented the awards,

The quality of entries was once again fantastic in the Midlands beer competition, with breweries new and established fighting it out to be named the best beer overall. Backyard and Thornbridge should be hugely proud of nosing ahead of an incredibly accomplished field in these hotly contested awards.” 

Former New Zealand All Black and Wasps player Craig Dowd was also on hand to present the awards, representing Nottingham Rugby Club where the competition took place. Collecting the award for Backyard Brewhouse was Ian Hughes, who had this to say on their win,

“Being a small brewery it is a massive accolade to win the SIBA Independent Beer Award, what a huge honour. This has come as a total surprise amongst what I know was fierce competition. It’s an intense beer with loads of American Citra hops –  which right now we think is exactly what people are looking for.”

Collecting the award for Thornbridge brewery was Alex Buchanan who said,

“We’re hugely honoured to win, this means a massive amount to our whole team back at the brewery. We think it’s a great beer – bags of tropical flavours such as pineapple, tangerine and passion fruit – which is proving really popular with drinkers.”

The competition took place immediately before the opening of the SIBA Midlands Beer Festival 2017, taking place at Nottingham Rugby Club, which runs Thursday 2nd November from 6pm-11pm, then continues Friday 3rd November 12 noon until 11pm and Saturday 4th November 12 noon until 11pm. For more information visit www.nottinghamrugby.co.uk

Full results:

Overall Champion of the Cask Competition

 

 

Sponsored by SPAsoft Ltd

Brewery Product ABV
Gold The Backyard Brewhouse Gold 4.5
Silver The Backyard Brewhouse 1898 4.9
Bronze Purity Brewing Company Bunny Hop 3.5

 

Cask Standard Mild Ales & Brown Ales

 

Sponsored by Close Brothers Brewery Rentals

Brewery Product ABV
Gold  The Grainstore Brewery Rutland Panther 3.4
Silver  Great Oakley Brewery Welland Valley Mild 3.6
Bronze  vale brewery black swan mild 3.9

 

Cask Standard Bitters & Pale Ales

 

Sponsored by Rankin Brothers & Sons

Brewery Product ABV
Gold  Purity Brewing Company Bunny Hop 3.5
Silver  Springhead Brewery Outlawed 3.8
Bronze  The Chiltern Brewery Chiltern Pale Ale 3.7

 

Cask Best Bitters & Pale Ales

 

Sponsored by Charles Farams & Co. Ltd

Brewery Product ABV
Gold  Purity Brewing Company Mad Goose 4.2
Silver  Lincoln Green Brewing Company Limited Archer 4.0
Bronze  The Heritage Brewing Company St.Modwen 4.2

 

Cask Premium Bitters & Pale Ales 

 

Sponsored by Crisp Malting Group

Brewery Product ABV
Gold  The Backyard Brewhouse Gold 4.5
Silver  Charnwood Brewery American Pale Ale 4.8
Bronze  Castle Rock Elsie Mo 4.7

 

Cask Strong Bitters & Pale Ales

 

Sponsored by Murphy & Son Ltd

Brewery Product ABV
Gold  Intrepid Brewing Company Ltd Myrce IPA 5.3
Silver  The Backyard Brewhouse Antipodean 5.6
Bronze  Slater’s Ales Haka 5.2

 

Cask Premium Strong Beers

 

Sponsored by Rastal GmbH & Co. Ltd

Brewery Product ABV
Gold  The Loose Cannon Brewing Co ltd  Double IPA 7.5
Silver  Shiny Brewing Company  Rocket 7.0
Bronze  Dancing Duck  Imperial Drake 6.5

 

Cask Porters, Stouts, Old Ales, Strong Milds & Strong Brown Ales

 

Sponsored by Brewers Select

Brewery Product ABV
Gold  The Backyard Brewhouse 1898 4.9
Silver  Brampton Brewery Brampton Mild 4.9
Bronze  Shiny Brewery Furnace Brewpub My Milk Stout Brings All The Boys To The Bar 4.9

 

Cask Speciality Light Beers

 

Sponsored by CFB Boilers Ltd

Brewery Product ABV
Gold  Dancing Duck  Wot the Duck? Duck a l’orange 6.4
Silver  Grafton Brewery  Apricot Jungle 4.8
Bronze  Shiny Brewing Company  Elevation 4.7

 

Cask Speciality Mid to Dark Beers

 

 

Brewery Product ABV
Gold  Blue Monkey Brewery Guerrilla Chocolate Amaretto 4.9
Silver  Fownes Brewing Company Visions of Heresy 5.7
Bronze  The Chiltern Brewery Chiltern Black 3.9

 

 

 

 

Champion Small Pack Beers

 

Sponsored by NFU Mutual

Brewery Product ABV
Gold Thornbridge Brewery AM:PM 4.5
Silver Ashover Brewery Littlemoor Citra 4.1
Bronze Brmapton Brewery Impy Dark 4.3

 

Small Pack Standard Mild Ales & Brown Ales 

Brewery Product ABV
Gold  Brampton Brewery Impy Dark 4.3
Silver  The Loose Cannon Brewing Co ltd Abingdon Bridge 4.1
Bronze  XT Brewing Co FOUR 4.2

 

Small Pack Standard Bitters & Pale Ales

Brewery Product ABV
Gold  Ashover Brewery Littlemoor Citra 4.1
Silver  The Backyard Brewhouse Americana 4.3
Bronze  Lymestone Brewery Stone Faced 4.0

 

Small Pack Premium Bitters & Pale Ales

 

Sponsored by Saxon Packaging

Brewery Product ABV
Gold  Thornbridge Brewery AM:PM 4.5
Silver Lincoln Green Brewing Company Limited Archer 4.5
Bronze  Weal Ales Brewery Weller Weal 4.6

 

Small Pack Strong Bitters & Pale Ales

 

 

Brewery Product ABV
Gold  The Chiltern Brewery 300’s Old Ale 5.0
Silver  Loddon Brewery Forbury Lion IPA 5.5
Bronze  Peak Ales Ltd. IPA 6.0

 

Small Pack Premium Strong Beers

 

 

Brewery Product ABV
Gold  Ashover Brewery Victorian Ruby Mild 7.0
Silver  Blue Monkey Brewery Woolly Monkey 6.8
Bronze  The Grainstore Brewery Rutland Beast 5.3

 

Small Pack Standard Lager & Pilsners

Brewery Product ABV
Gold  Charnwood Brewery  Liska 4.0
Silver  Derby Brewing Company  Python Pilsner 4.2
Bronze  Thornbridge Brewery  Lukas 4.2

 

Small Pack Premium Lager & Pilsners

Brewery Product ABV
Gold  Purity Brewing Company Lawless Lager 4.5
Silver  Shiny Brewing Company Shiny Lager 4.5
Bronze  Nobby’s Brewing Company Ltd Pilsner 4.8

 

Small Pack Porters, Stouts, Old Ales, Strong Milds & Strong Brown Ales

Brewery Product ABV
Gold  Ashover Brewery Milk Stout 6.0
Silver  Brampton Brewery Brampton Mild 4.9
Bronze  Blue Monkey Brewery Guerrilla 500ml Bottle 4.9

 

Small Pack Speciality Light Beers 

 

Sponsored by Beatson Clark Ltd

Brewery Product ABV
Gold  Lymestone Brewery Cherry Stone 5.2
Silver  Dhillons Brewery GPA 3.8
Bronze  Peak Ales Ltd. Chatsworth Gold 4.6

 

Small Pack Speciality Mid to Dark Beers 

Brewery Product ABV
Gold  Thornbridge Brewery  Cocoa Wonderland 6.8
Silver  Fownes Brewing Company  Visions of Heresy 5.7
Bronze  The Backyard Brewhouse  Coaltown 5.0

 

 

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