Utopian Brewing and Moor Beer Co have taken home the top two awards at the newly launched Indie Beer Awards, which took place lastnight at the MaltingsFest beer festival in Newton Abbot. It was Utopian Brewing’s big and rich German-style ‘Doppelbock’ which took home the Overall Champion Gold in the keg beer competition and Moor […]
New research released today shows almost a third (31%) of young beer drinkers surveyed now recognise the Indie Beer campaign, which has set out to promote beer from genuinely independent breweries and help people make an informed choice when purchasing a beer in pubs, bars or retailers. The YouGov research of over two thousand consumers, […]
Changes enacted today mean that around 700 pub tenants will have a new right to stock a guest beer in Scotland, which could expand consumer choice and support local Scottish brewers. As part of Scotland’s new Pubs Code, which comes into force today, pub tenants can enter into a Guest Beer Agreement. The scheme allows […]
The results are in for the UK’s biggest independent beer competition, with three breweries taking the Overall Gold across the Cask, Keg, and Bottle/Can competitions – and for the first time ever all the Overall Champions were from Scotland. Cross Borders Brewing won the Overall Champion of the Cask Beer Awards with their India Pale […]
Winners in the SIBA Business Awards 2025 have today been announced, highlighting the UK’s very best brewing businesses, pubs and retailers of independent beer – in an awards known as the Oscars of the beer industry. Northern Ireland’s Bullhouse Brewing Co took home the evening’s top award – being named Brewery Business of the Year […]
Independent breweries in the UK will now be able to measure and manage their carbon emissions more effectively thanks to a new free tool launched today. Zevero Lite, which is being unveiled at the UK’s biggest beer and brewing trade event BeerX, provides an accessible starting point for independent breweries to begin their decarbonisation journey. […]
Finalists in the SIBA Business Awards 2025 have today been revealed, highlighting the breweries, taprooms, retailers, pubs and beer industry businesses in the running to be named the best in the UK. The SIBA Business Awards presentation takes place in Liverpool in just under two week’s time and seeks to congratulate excellence in the brewing […]
Figures released today show the UK has 100 fewer breweries in total as of January 2025 compared to January 2024 – with each quarter of 2024 showing a negative net closure rate – despite reports of strong demand for beer from independent breweries. The figures, released by the SIBA UK Brewery Tracker and which consider all openings […]
A new UK-wide beer week has been launched by independent beer campaigners to promote ‘independent beer, pubs and people’, with a string of events set to take place in community pubs, bars and brewery taprooms. Building on the hugely successful launch of the Indie Beer campaign at the end of 2024, Indie Beer Week will take place from the 11th to the 20th April (taking in […]
The Society of Independent Brewers and Associates (SIBA) have today extended the closing date for entries into the SIBA Business Awards 2025 by two weeks, with a new closing date of 16th February 2025. The SIBA Business Awards seek to congratulate excellence in the brewing industry across a variety of categories, from pump clip, can and bottle […]