Delegates at BeerX, SIBA’s celebration of British beer in Sheffield, today welcomed Andrew Griffiths MP and Brandon Lewis MP as the first speakers at the event’s Industry Day. The past year, said Lewis, had been a “fantastic year for beer” following the end of the beer duty escalator in the Budget of 2013 and he […]
The Society of Independent Brewers (SIBA) has announced three Supreme Champions and 60 medal winners in its National Beer Competition 2014. The winners were unveiled at the organisation’s BeerX event in Sheffield. Top honours and the Supreme Champion titles went to: OSM (Old Sodbury Mild) from Cotswold Spring Brewery in the cask category; Fuller’s London […]
DATE OF JUDGING 11th March 2014 ANNOUNCEMENT 12th March 2014 Overall Champion of the Competition Sponsored by Close Brewery Rentals Brewery Product ABV Gold Cotswold Spring Brewery OSM 3.9 Silver Hastings Brewery Hastings Porter 4.5 Bronze Mordue Brewery Killswitch 51 5.0 Overall Champion of Bottled Beers Sponsored by Croxsons Brewery Product ABV Gold Bristol Beer […]
The Society of Independent Brewers (SIBA) has today named Guy Sheppard of Exe Valley Brewery as its new chairman, succeeding Keith Bott. At its AGM in Sheffield, members also voted for a change in SIBA’s structure which will merge the management of the trade association and the commercial arm, until now run as a separate […]
Judges are gathering in Sheffield today to assess the finalists in the National Beer Competition organised by the Society of Independent Brewers (SIBA). The judging, at iceSheffield, marks the start of SIBA’s BeerX 2014, which runs through to Saturday evening. The judging panel, made up of around 100 brewers, industry experts, local licensees and beer […]
Packaging experts Croxsons are launching a new range of beer bottles, specially selected for the growing independent brewing sector, at SIBA’s BeerX event later this week. The new bottles will be available for BeerX visitors to view at Croxsons’ stand. They are designed to fill the current gap between standard 350ml or 500ml bottles and […]
Investment in a new visitor centre is under starter’s orders as Titanic Brewery continues to grow and create jobs in Staffordshire and Derbyshire. Stoke-on-Trent based Titanic’s longstanding plans to upgrade its Burslem brewery has moved a step closer following a successful year which saw the brewery open its eighth pub. Keith Bott, Managing Director of […]
Last week, the factory acceptance test of DENWEL’s 5,000 litre per hour manual inline carbonator for Calvors Lager was successfully performed at the DENWEL factory in Prague. All of the DENWEL units are bespoke to the requirements of the brewer, so when Alec from Clavors asked for a second pump outlet so that he could […]
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 […]
Kellas brewery, Mòr Brewing Limited travelled to Nottingham for the Castle Rock Brewing Awards ceremony and came home with the prestigious New Brewery of the Year award. Castle Rock stocked Mòr ales in most of their pubs throughout England last July. A Castle Rock spokesman said “ we showcase a new brewery each month to […]