The Society of Independent Brewers’ south west region is sponsoring a guide dog as part of its ongoing community support. A cheque for £10,000 was presented to the Guide Dogs for the Blind Association at SIBA’s south west beer competition at Tuckers Maltings in Newton Abbot, Devon. SIBA’s support will pay for the training of […]
Popular West Country brewer, Bath Ales, has won the top accolade for its Golden Hare beer at SIBA’s annual Tuckers Malting Beer Festival. The awards are designed to showcase the very best products in the region with over 250 different beers on show at this year’s event. Golden Hare fought off tough competition from The […]
Somerset-based Quantock Brewery added to its trophy cabinet by taking the Overall Champion prize at the Society of Independent Brewers’ south west regional beer competition last week. The accolade, for its Wills Neck 4.2% ABV golden ale, follows victories for the beer at SIBA’s national beer competition earlier this year and in 2013. A total […]
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 […]
The Wild Beer Co has recently purchased extra brewing capacity and a new bottling line from Devon firm, Vigo, with the help of a grant from the REG Programme and the Rural Development Programme for England. The brewery, based in the village of Westcombe in Somerset is only 18 months old but has already exported […]
On March 5th at 1pm the Rebel Brewing Co, Cornwall’s most dynamic microbrewery, will be awarded with two prizes from CAMRA (campaign for real ale). The event will be hosted at our premises in Penryn, on the Kernick industrial estate – where there will be a free tasting. The winning beer ‘Mexi-Cocoa’ comes from the […]
Independent brewer Bath Ales has just unveiled two exciting new venues housed in the South West’s most popular concert venue, Colston Hall, in Bristol. Comprising of two separate locations inside the stunning building in Bristol City Centre, the new venues include a charcuterie bar/restaurant called Gordito and Colston Street Bar & Kitchen, a café bar […]
Exe Valley Brewery is delighted to have been awarded Gold for it’s Winter Glow in the Old Ales / Strong Milds Category of the Champion Beer of Britain at the National Competition held in Derby yesterday (19th Feb) – http://www.camra.org.uk/article.php?group_id=12802 Winter Glow is a traditional old ale at 6% abv – a strong, dark and […]
Otter Brewery have presented a cheque to the Royal British Legion as part of their ongoing support for the Poppy Appeal. The donation comes from sales of Poppy Otter through November and December. For every firkin that was sold to the pub trade the brewery donated £6.80 (the equivalent of 10p from every pint that […]
A former wine industry expert who swapped grapes for hops has joined Dartmoor Brewery to strengthen their brewing team and is en route to becoming the South West’s only Advanced Beer and Advanced Wine Sommelier. Ian Cobham, a former Chef Sommelier, will work alongside Head Brewer, Mike Lunney, at the Princetown brewery, which is famous […]