After celebrating a decade in business throughout 2016, Purity Brewing Company is rounding off the year by announcing its financial results, highlighting further success and consistent growth. With continued expansion in the independent free trade, its national managed on-trade and further strong performances in the national off-trade, the craft beer brewery is reporting sales growth […]
Nottingham’s Castle Rock Brewery has begun a year-long evaluation of an anaerobic digester designed to convert waste from its brewing processes into energy and cleaner waste water. The brewers believe this is a first in UK brewing and only the seventh such scheme in any industry in the world. The scheme, called H2AD Micro AD, […]
Brampton Mild from Brampton brewery has been named the best beer in the Midlands by judges at the SIBA Independent Beer Awards last night, hosted by the Birmingham CAMRA Beer festival. The awards, run by the Society of Independent Brewers (SIBA), are unique in that the majority of judges are brewers themselves from independent craft […]
Saturday 24th September 2016 saw the first event to be held at LBC-HQ; our official opening and the launch of several of our cask ales. We were really looking forward to welcoming everyone to our ‘gaff’ and so ensured that preparations were completed in good time so that on the day, we could devote as […]
Tickets are still available for the Dea Latis Brewsters’ Brunch, taking part on Saturday 23 July as part of the Birmingham Beer Bash. Michelle Kelsall from Offbeat Brewery in Cheshire, Gwen Sanchirico a native New Yorker now brewing at Sacre Brew in Wolverhampton and Sarah John from Swansea’s Boss Brewing will be providing beers and […]
MD Mike Benner to give presentation on SIBA’s Food Safety & Quality (FSQ) certificate at BevExpo 2016, 15th-16th June The Society of Independent Brewers (SIBA), is pleased to announce they are one of the Founding Partners of the brewing industry event BevExpo, and as part of the partnership, SIBA will be presenting an update on […]
New research shows 1 in 3 people would visit restaurants more often if they served a range of independent craft brewed beer New independent research released by the Society of Independent Brewers (SIBA) shows that more than 1 in 3 people would visit restaurants more often if they served a range of craft brewed […]
Cheers! Special brew helps Chiltern conservation groups Beer drinkers have made a £700 contribution to preserving the Chiltern countryside simply by enjoying their tipple. A special brew – Chiltern Double Fifty – was developed by The Chiltern Brewery last autumn to celebrate the 50th anniversaries of the conservation charity, the Chiltern Society, and the Chilterns […]
A total of 19 beers from the Society of Independent Brewers’ (SIBA) Midlands region have been selected for a place in the National finals taking place at BeerX, SIBA’s flagship event. There will be a total of 7 cask beers, 8 ‘small pack’ (bottled and canned) beers, and 4 craft keg beers in the competition, […]
The first ever brewing course at the Royal Agricultural University, Cirencester (RAU), in its 171 year history, will be taking place later this month, on 7-11 March 2016. A refresher course for the Institute of Brewing & Distilling’s Diploma Level, its participants will include trainee brewers from local Cotswolds breweries Gloucester Brewery, Hook Norton Brewery […]