In the space of just one week, the team at Wold Top Brewery has picked up two awards and a place in the final of a regional food and drink awards for its coastal inspired beer. Just days after being awarded a bronze medal at the International Beer Challenge, the Wold Newton brewery’s Scarborough Fair […]
TROOPER Red ‘N’ Black, the third beer from IRON MAIDEN and ROBINSONS BREWERY, has been released worldwide through import partners and at selected Morrisons stores nationwide in the UK. The beer will also be available in cask from selected Robinsons pubs and through national listings. The limited edition beer, designed once again by Iron Maiden […]
Surrey craft brewer Hogs Back is celebrating after winning a further five medals, awarded at the recent International Beer Challenge 2016. Hogs Back’s ‘A over T’ (Aromas over Tongham) took two Gold medals: one in the Ale category, in which it was blind tasted against hundreds of competing beers, and one for bottle design, where […]
Beer Now is an Evolution of the European Beer Bloggers & Writers Conference The Society of Independent Brewers (SIBA) and Zephyr Conferences announced today the first-ever Beer Now Conference will take place next March 17-19 in Sheffield, England. The conference is focused on “marketing, tourism, and communications” in the modern beer industry. The conference will […]
Emmerald now have a warehousing facility in the UK, ensuring that all cask orders can be received, processed and delivered within a one week turnaround. Responding to customer feedback, Emmerald identified a more flexible approach when supplying casks, both in quantity and lead times. Our new UK facility will enable us to take orders and […]
by Mike Benner, SIBA Managing Director For a good few years, some in the British beer industry have been somewhat distracted by a desire to define craft beer – whether it should be from a new brewery that did keg beer, whether it should be associated with certain styles or flavour attributes, whether more traditional […]
Independence, provenance and quality are key to the future of British beer SIBA, the Society of Independent Brewers, has today launched an initiative to promote ‘Assured Independent British Craft Breweries’ in an effort to provide greater clarity for consumers looking to purchase beer from genuinely independent craft breweries in the UK. With over 850 brewing […]
Over 100 million pints of beer have been sold through a scheme designed to get craft-brewed beer from some of the smallest brewers into the UK’s largest pub companies. Now in its 14th year, BeerFlex was setup by the Society of Independent Brewers (SIBA) to get their members’ beers into pub chains and has proved […]
As consumer confidence falls and experts predict negative consumer effects following the Brexit vote a glimmer of positivity is coming from an unexpected source. SIBA, the Society of Independent Brewers, is predicting a boost in consumer passion for local beers from Britain’s craft breweries as past experience shows consumers opt to ‘trade-up on treats’. Mike […]
Great Taste, the world’s most coveted blind-tasted food awards, which celebrates the very best in food and drink, has announced the Great Taste stars of 2016. Out of 10,000 products to be judged. The Cheshire Brewhouse, Congleton Cheshire was awarded a 2-star Great Taste award for its “Dane’ish” craft Cheshire lager. The Judges’ comments were […]