Increasing numbers of small brewers can provide pubs they are supplying with reliable cellar services thanks to a new service launched by the Society of Independent Brewers (SIBA).

The service – a tie-up between SIBA and technical services company Innserve – means that licensees ordering beer through SIBA can get experts out to fix problems free of charge. According to SIBA, 60 installation or maintenance jobs have to date been carried out under the ‘Technical Services’ scheme, which was launched in March, and 40 per cent of SIBA’s members responded to a survey that they would start using the service.

The ability of smaller brewers to provide technical services following delivery of their beer had been notoriously unreliable, but SIBA has claimed that this problem has now been resolved.

SIBA’s Nick Stafford said: “This is an encouraging response to technical services, just three months after its launch. As most of our brewers supply on average several hundred pubs, the widespread adoption of this service should result in improved dispense of local beers in thousands of pubs.”

Written by Nick Yates

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