SIBA North Region

Counties:
Cheshire
Cheshire
Cumbria
Durham
East Riding of Yorkshire
Greater Manchester
Isle of Man
Lancashire
Merseyside
Northumberland
South Yorkshire
Tyne & Wear
West Yorkshire
Yorkshire

Nina Bates

Representatives to the North

Nina Bates
Owner of Flying Firkin, a small wholesale business which deals exclusively in cask conditioned real ale.
Elected to represent SIBA North in 2004 on the basis of daily contact with the membership in the course of ‘normal’ business and an understanding of the issues affecting independent breweries garnered from the days when the Flying Firkin was owned by one!
Chair of the Cask Repatriation subcommittee because of a) an extensive knowledge of the artform known at “attempting to return casks to their owners” and b) a lack of volunteers for the position.

Alex Brodie
Alex Brodie is the owner of Hawkshead Brewery, which he founded in 2002, in the heart of the English Lake District. In 2006 he moved the brewery to a new site and installed a purpose built 20 brl plant. Hawkshead is now a level 3 brewery, producing 70 brls per week in 2008.
Alex came to brewing in his fifties, after a lifetime of dedicated enjoyment of beer and a thirty year career as a journalist, largely in foreign news.

Tom Mellor
Wold Top Brewery

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