SIBA is looking for worthy recipients within the brewing industry to be presented with the 2015 award at BeerX. SIBA Vice Chairman, Jim Kenyon, who is co-ordinating the award says “This is a great opportunity to celebrate those who have gone the extra mile for the industry.” Each nomination must be supported by a […]
The Society of Independent Brewers (SIBA) is supporting Tryanuary, the new initiative that encourages drinkers to seek out new independent breweries, beers, bars and bottle shops during January. SIBA has contacted all its members – brewers, suppliers and pubs – to enlist their support for Tryanuary. A number of SIBA brewers are already among the […]
A team from SIBA is heading to leading beverage industry exhibition BrauBeviale in Nürnberg, Germany, this November, as part of the association’s ongoing campaign to help its member brewers develop their export business. BrauBeviale is established as one of the most important events on the international drinks trade calendar. Over three days, some 33,000 visitors […]
‘Meet the buyer’ event, this Wednesday at Brewers’ Hall There is still time for British brewers to take advantage of a unique opportunity to meet overseas buyers of British beers, at a free event this week being hosted at Brewers’ Hall by the BBPA and UKTI (UK Trade & Investment). Brewers are being invited to […]
SIBA South West Region Beer Competition 2014 DATE OF JUDGING & ANNOUNCEMENT 24th April 2014 Overall Champion of the Competition Sponsored by: GOLD Tuckers Maltings – SILVER Jim Laker Memorial – BRONZE SIBA Brewery Product ABV Gold Quantock Brewery Wills Neck 4.3 Silver Tavy Ales Porter 5.2 Bronze Dawkins Ales Bristol Blonde 3.8 For the […]
BeerX, SIBA’s celebration of British beer held in Sheffield, concluded on Friday with a ‘meet the buyers’ event bringing together brewers with buyers, importers and experts from a dozen foreign markets. The session, organised in conjunction with UK Trade and Investment (UKTI), was designed to offer practical advice to brewers looking to start exporting, or […]
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 […]