A ‘smooth and fruity’ stout by the UK’s Champion Homebrewer has gone on sale at The Pembury Tavern in Hackney this weekend – the flagship pub of renowned London brewer Five Points, where the beer was commercially brewed. Stuart Hubbard’s oatmeal stout ‘Meteor’ was named the best homebrew beer in the UK at the prestigious SIBA […]
The results are in at the Indie Beer Awards East, with breweries from across the East of England battling it out to be named the best across a range of awards categories in seperate cask and keg beer competitions. Taking home the two overall top spots were Artefect Brewing who were named Overall Champion of […]
A brand new beer festival is coming to Haverfordwest next month, featuring a huge range of beers from independent breweries from across Wales. Indie Beer Cymru is taking place on Friday the 19th and Saturday 20th September and is being organised by Welsh brewers from the Society of Independent Brewers and Associates, building on the […]
Tickets are selling fast for Scotland’s biggest independent beer festival, organised by the team behind the UK-wide Indie Beer campaign – Indie Beer Scotland returns to Clyde Rooms at Edmiston House in Glasgow on the 5th & 6th September 2025. Each of the three festival sessions will be pouring over a hundred different cask and keg beers from some of […]
Signature Brew, based in Walthamstow North London, have taken home the Overall Champion at the Indie Beer Awards South East 2025. The brewery won Gold with their flagship beer ‘Roadie’, a hazy and hoppy pale ale that’s a hit with drinkers of all tastes; “Ecstatic [to win], we’ve been working so hard in the last […]
The number of breweries in the UK has continued to drop, with 136 fewer brewers as of the end of March 2025 compared to 31st March 2024, continuing the downward trend reported in January where it was shown the UK had lost 100 breweries since the start of 2024. The total number of active breweries now […]
A new report published today has shown that whilst demand for independent beer remains strong, UK brewers face “heavy headwinds” from increased taxation, market access restrictions and reduced alcohol consumption facing breweries which threaten to blow the industry off course. This means that whilst average production climbed 10% last year, nearly half (46%) of independent […]
New research released today shows almost a third (31%) of young beer drinkers surveyed now recognise the Indie Beer campaign, which has set out to promote beer from genuinely independent breweries and help people make an informed choice when purchasing a beer in pubs, bars or retailers. The YouGov research of over two thousand consumers, […]
The results are in for the UK’s biggest independent beer competition, with three breweries taking the Overall Gold across the Cask, Keg, and Bottle/Can competitions – and for the first time ever all the Overall Champions were from Scotland. Cross Borders Brewing won the Overall Champion of the Cask Beer Awards with their India Pale […]
Winners in the SIBA Business Awards 2025 have today been announced, highlighting the UK’s very best brewing businesses, pubs and retailers of independent beer – in an awards known as the Oscars of the beer industry. Northern Ireland’s Bullhouse Brewing Co took home the evening’s top award – being named Brewery Business of the Year […]