Includes:
Wales
Eire
Gloucestershire
Herefordshire
Northern Ireland
Shropshire
Worcestershire

Representatives to SIBA Wales and West

Jim Kenyon – Hereford Brewery
Jim was born in hereford. He joined the army at sixteen and served all around the world for 14 years with Airborne Forces. After a parachute accident he left the army and decided to buy a pub, The Victory. At the same time he built and opened a brewery “The Spinning Dog” initially with a four barrell brew length at the back of the pub. Four years later the demand outstipped the four barrell plant so an eleven barrell brewery was installed.
Jim’s interests are rugby, shooting and scuba diving. He is married to Helen and has three children ages range from twenty to eighteen months old.
Jim has been a SIBA Council member for the past year and a SIBA member for the last eight years. He is passionate about defending the progressive beer duty and promotes the ethos of breweries working together for the common good.

Norman Pearce - Corvedale Brewery

Peter Amor

A post-war baby-boomer born in Ilford, Essex in 1946, Peter was educated at Ilford Grammar School taking A-levels in Chemistry, Botany and Zoology.
His favourite subject was botany, with some initial studies on yeast, he decided his future career options should include The Forestry Commission, Kew Gardens or Brewing. Luckily for fans of Wye Valley Ales, Peter chose Brewing!
Peter started his career in the brewing industry at Arthur Guinness and Sons, Park Royal, which he joined in1965. In his 13 years at Guinness, Peter worked across many aspects of the business, covering brewing, the laboratory, training and transport.
Peter left Guinness in 1978 and went to work as a Transport Manager at HP Bulmer in Hereford. In 1983 he left HP Bulmer to set up the Abbey Brewery in Retford in Nottingham with a business partner.
In 1985 Peter bought-out his partner and transported the whole brewing plant back to Hereford to start Wye Valley Brewery.
1986 saw Peter taking on the lease of a run-down pub in Hereford called The Lamb, into which he installed the brewery, and renamed the pub The Barrels.
1995 Peter bought The Rose and Lion public house in Bromyard, opening the doors on December 20th!!
By April 2002 the brewery had outgrown its Hereford home and relocated to its present site in Stoke Lacy.
2009 presented an opportunity to purchase a closed down pub in Great Malvern, which was renamed The Morgan after the local motor company.
In 2010 The Britannia in Hereford became the 4th addition to the Wye Valley Brewery tied pub estate.
In 2007 Peter assumed the Chair of the Society of Independent Brewers, for a 3-year tenure, retiring March 2010.
Peter remains the licensee at The Barrels and has cultivated a distinctive style in jackets, hats and bowties.

News articles from SIBA Wales and West Region:

• Hobsons Brewery donates to Old Comrades
• Rival Breweries Join to Reopen The Albion Pub in Conwy
• Stroud Brewery Open a New Bar
• Frothy Moustache Month
• Herefordshire Pub Wins Best Local at National Awards
• Brewing Extravaganza Kicks off 245 Year Celebrations
• Torch Bearer Ale
• Celt Experience Brewery scoops ‘Best Beer, Cider or Perry’ in Wales at True Taste Awards
• South Wales Pub Named Official Welsh Arm of UK Beer Academy
• Wood’s new beer will help original Olympians