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 […]
All SIBA brewing members trading on SIBA Beerflex* now hold a valid SIBA FSQ certificate or other professional accreditation commissioned themselves such as SALSA, NSF, STS or BRC. This is a total of 494 independent craft breweries and is a huge step forward for SIBA’s Beerflex members who can now provide necessary food safety and quality assurance demanded by many retailers. This also give […]
Loch Lomond Brewery have swept the board at the SIBA Scotland Independent Beer Awards, taking home overall Gold in both the cask and small pack (bottle and can) competitions – the first time ever in the competition’s history. The prestigious awards, run by the Society of Independent Brewers (SIBA) prior to the “C>SK : 17” […]
Purity Brewing Company is celebrating after being named Brewery of the Year for 2018 by The Good Pub Guide. The highly-regarded annual travel guide, which has been listing and rating pubs up and down the country since 1982, has recently started including breweries and has named Purity as the best in the business. The brewery […]
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. Beavertown – Tempus Project Applelation Best Individual Design 2017 Judges were wowed by the subtle simplicity of Beavertown’s Tempus Project […]
Woodforde’s Brewery, the award-winning Norfolk-based brewery, has announced today that it is rebranding by linking with the legacy of Norfolk’s favourite son, and one of Britain’s greatest military heroes, Admiral Lord Nelson. In the seventeen months since directors James Hughes and Nick Dolan took on the business, they have widened the reach, distribution and profile […]