The two top awards in cask and keg at the Indie Beer Awards Midlands & West have been scooped by Twisted Tree Brewery in Oxfordshire and Gloucester Brewery in Gloucestershire, in a record-sized competition judging beers from across the Midlands and West of England. Twisted Tree Brewery’s ‘The Bark Side’ Black IPA wowed judges in […]
Rt Hon Sir Julian Smith KCB CBE, Member of Parliament for Skipton and Ripon, officially opened the new Headquarters of the Society of Independent Brewers and Associates (SIBA) in Ripon this week (Wednesday, 24 September). Julian visited SIBA’s new premises on Dallamires Lane, where he was welcomed by Chief Executive Andy Slee and members of […]
Bragdy Twt Lol (The Trefforest Brewery) and Bragdy Cybi have taken home the two Overall Golds in the inuagural Indie Beer Cymru Awards respective cask and keg competitions. Twt Lol won the Overall Gold in the cask beer competition with their ‘Pretty Fly for a Magpie’ IPA, described as a ‘very hoppy, bitter but smooth IPA […]
View the full beer list here! Wales’ newest beer festival has today revealed the full lineup of breweries and beers on offer – and it’s the biggest selection of Welsh independent beers available anywhere. The brand new beer festival is coming to Haverfordwest next week, featuring a huge range of beers from independent breweries from […]
Loch Lomond brewery have made history at the Indie Beer Scotland Awards 2025, taking home both the Overall Champion Cask and Overall Champion Keg Awards with the very same beer for the first time ever. The cask and keg versions of their flagship Silkie Stout not only won their style categories, but then both went […]
The Society of Independent Brewers & Associates(SIBA) is proud to announce that the Midlands and West Indie Beer Awards 2025 will take place at the Nottingham Robin Hood Beer & Cider Festival on Wednesday 8th October 2025. The prestigious awards, which celebrate the very best independent craft beers from across the Midlands and the Western counties of Gloucestershire, Herefordshire, Worcestershire and […]
The Indie Beer Awards have today announced a new partnership with the Guild of Beer Sommeliers to further improve the standard of judging at their beer competitions across the UK. The Indie Beer Awards, which are organised by the Society of Independent Brewers and Associates (SIBA) and take place across the UK, will be utilising […]
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 […]