West Berkshire Brewery has secured a seasonal listing this autumn with M&B’s leading Castle group of pubs for Wheaty McWheat Face, its new beer brewed for Imbibe Live’s Wheat Beer Challenge, as well as a trip for two to visit the Pilsner Urquell brewery in the Czech Republic. Beating off Boss Brewing, Harviestoun, Little Beer […]
West Berkshire Brewery (WBB) have added three new awards to their ever expanding trophy cabinet. Two gold awards were won at the Society of Independent Brewers Association (SIBA) South East competition on Friday 8th July. The craft brewery were also champion of the Imbibe Live Wheat Beer Challenge 2016 which took place at Olympia, London. […]
Yesterday evening saw beers from East Sussex’s Black Cat Brewery and Berkshire’s Windsor & Eton Brewery take home Gold in the Society of Independent Brewers (SIBA) South East Independent Beer Awards. SIBA Chairman Guy Sheppard, who presented the awards and is himself a brewer, had this to say on the entries this year, “The quality […]
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 […]
A total of 30 beers from the Society of Independent Brewers’ (SIBA) South East 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 8 cask beers, 7 ‘small pack’ (bottled and canned) beers, and 15 craft keg beers in the […]
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 […]
Diploma Programme 2016 Are you wanting to study for the IBD exams? The Brilliant Beer Company, through the IBD accredited training scheme, is pleased to offer training for the for candidates wishing to sit the IBD examinations for the Diploma 1 in brewing for June 2016 and the GCB in May & November 2016. Diploma […]
The Society of Independent Brewers (SIBA), has today been named as the Official Partner of the Craft Beer Rising beer festival in London. The highly successful craft beer festival is now in its third year and has partnered with trade organisation SIBA, who represent Britain’s independent craft brewers, to deliver another fantastic event in the […]
Beavertown Brewery is a Cask customer and a leader in the UK’s growing micro-canning segment. In just over a year, the brewery has won rapid success and acclaim with flavorful beers canned on a Cask ACS machine. The brewery’s latest award goes to Jenn Merrick, Beavertown’s head brewer. On December 3 she won the British […]
The organisers of CBR, formerly known as Craft Beer Rising, will be offering SIBA members under 5000hl in production a 10% discount on the cost of a stand at next year’s festival. The festival and trade show, which takes place next February 26-27th at The Old Truman Brewery on Brick Lane in London, has been […]