The Society of Independent Brewers (SIBA) has given Lifetime Achievement Awards to the late Peter Austin, one of the organisation’s founders and its first chairman, who died in January, and to Derek Prentice, who retired last year from Fuller’s after a distinguished career in the brewing industry. The Awards were announced at SIBA’s BeerX event […]
The Society of Independent Brewers (SIBA) has announced three Supreme Champions and 60 medal winners in its National Beer Competition 2014. The winners were unveiled at the organisation’s BeerX event in Sheffield. Top honours and the Supreme Champion titles went to: OSM (Old Sodbury Mild) from Cotswold Spring Brewery in the cask category; Fuller’s London […]
The Society of Independent Brewers (SIBA) has today named Guy Sheppard of Exe Valley Brewery as its new chairman, succeeding Keith Bott. At its AGM in Sheffield, members also voted for a change in SIBA’s structure which will merge the management of the trade association and the commercial arm, until now run as a separate […]
Judges are gathering in Sheffield today to assess the finalists in the National Beer Competition organised by the Society of Independent Brewers (SIBA). The judging, at iceSheffield, marks the start of SIBA’s BeerX 2014, which runs through to Saturday evening. The judging panel, made up of around 100 brewers, industry experts, local licensees and beer […]
Packaging experts Croxsons are launching a new range of beer bottles, specially selected for the growing independent brewing sector, at SIBA’s BeerX event later this week. The new bottles will be available for BeerX visitors to view at Croxsons’ stand. They are designed to fill the current gap between standard 350ml or 500ml bottles and […]
This is the second year that our Business Awards have been scheduled to coincide with BeerX, SIBA’s annual celebration of all that is Great about British beer and the British independent brewing industry. BeerX 2014 is at iceSheffield – the Yorkshire city’s prestigious local, national and international skating and events venue – from 12-15 March. […]
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The Champion Beer of Britain (CBOB) Award was once again presented to a brewer belonging to the Society of Independent Brewers (SIBA) at the Great British Beer Festival today, when Elland 1872 Porter from Elland Brewery, West Yorkshire, was announced as winner of CAMRA’s top accolade. All but one of this year’s class winners are […]
Following the press release issued by Moorhouse’s on discounting by small brewers, SIBA has issued the following statement: Julian Grocock, chief executive of the Society of Independent Brewers said, “SIBA agrees with Mr Grant that discounting by brewers is not helpful for the long-term health of the local beer sector. However, we don’t believe that […]