Hawkshead Brewery beat intense competition to take the title of Overall Brewery Business of the Year, announced at SIBA’s BeerX event in Sheffield. Judges gave the top title in the SIBA Business Awards to Hawkshead, based in Cumbria, for the development of its Beer Hall – a brewery tap, visitor centre and showcase for beer. […]
Moorhouse’s enjoys business surge in the capital The famous ‘Pendle Witches’ beers from Moorhouse’s in Lancashire are weaving their spell on cask ale enthusiasts across the nation’s capital. New business wins with leading pub company outlets and quality free trade accounts in London and the south east are making a strong contribution to […]
Beer lovers can now enjoy a taste of The Lakes while in the Mediterranean or the Caribbean on-board P&O’s new cruise ship Britannia. Cumbrian-based Hawkshead Brewery was approached by P&O to supply the cruise liner with bottles of their dark premium beer Brodie’s Prime 4.9%. The official naming by the Queen, her first […]
International folk singer Seth Lakeman helped Dartmoor Brewery launch their new cask ale, Dartmoor Best, at The Plume of Feathers in Princetown. Dartmoor Brewery is the West Country brewery behind well-known brands Jail Ale, Legend and Dartmoor IPA. Taking a break from his UK Tour, Seth, now widely recognised as one of the UK’s […]
CFT, the large process engineering company known in the beer world for bottling and canning technology, have unveiled their first completed brewery since taking on Elio Poloniato, the chief brewery engineer at Velo. Elio has designed and built over 20 distilleries and 220 breweries in his career, the most famous UK brewery being Thornbridge. […]
SIBA MEMBERS ONLY VENUE: TBA TIME: 3pm on Thursday 24th September.
SIBA MEMBERS ONLY VENUE: The next meeting will be held at the Bridge Hotel, Castle Square, Newcastle TIME: 3pm on Thursday 21st May.
SIBA MEMBERS ONLY Time: 19:00 Venue: The White Horse Hotel, Romsey, Hampshire, SO51 8NA This is preceded by Brewery visits at Flack Manor Brewery, Romsey Industrial Estate, Romsey, SO51 0HR. (http://www.flackmanor.co.uk/) Visits commence from 5pm until 6.30 pm. Romsey train station is close (walking distance) to both venues, and there is car-parking available at […]
The Society of Independent Brewers (SIBA) has given Lifetime Achievement Awards to beer writer Roger Protz and to George Philliskirk, former director of the Beer Academy. The Awards were presented at SIBA’s BeerX event in Sheffield by chairman Guy Sheppard, who said, “We are delighted to recognise the enormous contribution made by both Roger and […]
The Society of Independent Brewers (SIBA), the trade organisation that represents 800 independent brewers, has launched Delivering the Future of British Beer, a strategic plan setting out its aims for the next three years. The plan, the organisation’s first, has been developed to ensure continued success for the independent brewing sector, which has thrived in […]