“After the double digit increase in beer duty only months ago, independent breweries will heave a huge sigh of relief that duty is now frozen until next summer, allowing the new alcohol duty system time to bed in. The Business Rates discount being extended will also be welcome news for community pubs and taprooms, though […]
Guest post by Karl Stevens, Hwgga Brew, Wales In January of this year (2023) I received notification by email of SIBA’s annual survey for the Craft Beer Report. This Survey is a vital resource for SIBA in planning its activities but also forms the key basis of the SIBA Craft Beer Report launched at BeerX. The email told me the survey had […]
The Society of Independent Brewers (SIBA) have further expanded the range of benefits they offer independent breweries, with a new accountancy and business advisory service launched to compliment the valuable legal advice service members already have access to. The new accountancy and business advisory service from Johnston Carmichael, an experienced firm in the brewing sector and which already […]
The Society of Independent Brewers (SIBA) have today launched the SIBA Business Awards 2024, including three brand new categories for Best Collaboration, Best New Brewery, and a new SIBA member-voted Brewers’ Brewer of the Year award. The “Brewers’ Brewer of the Year” seeks to highlight the brewer who has had the biggest positive influence on […]
An American-stye IPA from Dalston’s 40FT brewery has been voted the best cask beer in London and the South East by a panel of industry experts. ‘Neighbourhood IPA’ by 40FT won the IPA category before going on to take home the Overall Gold against all of the other style category winners in the SIBA South […]
SIBA have today announced a partnership with award-winning brewery and Indian streetfood aficionado’s Bundobust, yeast specialists Lallemand Brewing and The Malt Miller, to challenge homebrewers to brew the UK’s best tasting wheat beer. The SIBA National Homebrew Beer Awards 2024, which open for entries today 1st November, will give one lucky homebrewer the chance to brew […]
Bank Top Brewery have taken home the Overall Champion Cask Beer Award at the Society of Independent Brewers (SIBA) North West Independent Beer Awards 2023, which took place at the Bolton Beer Festival. Their Overall Gold-winning beer ‘Pavillion Pale Ale’ wowed judges in the final judging, where all of the beer style category winners fight […]
Grain Brewery have taken home the overall Gold at the SIBA East Independent Beer Awards 2023, beating brewers from across the East of England, stretching from North Lincolnshire down to Essex and Hertfordshire, as well Norfolk, Suffolk, Cambridgeshire and Bedfordshire. It was Grain’s ‘Slate’ – a traditional dark Porter beer with a subtle sweet smokiness […]
In a partnership between the Morning Advertiser and the Society of Independent Brewers, licensees and pub industry professionals will get a chance to taste some of the UK’s best independent craft beers at the Great British Pub Awards 2023. The Great British Pub Awards, which are taking place this evening in Manchester, will include an […]
Broughton Brewery’s ‘Old Jock’ Scotch Ale has been named Scotland’s best cask beer at the SIBA Scotland Independent Beer Awards 2023, with Swannay Brewery’s Orkney Porter being named Overall Gold being named Scotland’s best in keg. The awards, which judge beers from across Scotland in two separate cask and keg judging sessions, take place ahead […]