Winners from the ‘Wales & West’ beer competition, run by The Society of Independent Brewers (SIBA), have been announced today, with Salopian brewery taking home the much coveted overall Gold in the cask competition with ‘Hoptwister’ and Gloucester Brewery winning overall champion in the small pack (bottle and can) competition with Gloucester Gold. Beers from […]
Uprising Treason crowned UK and Eire’s best indie beer in a can 13 May 2016, London, UK – Uprising Treason by Windsor & Eton won ‘Best in Show’ at the Indie Beer Can Festival last night. The event saw UK and Eire’s leading indie brewers gather together to champion the hottest trend in the independent […]
Number of coffee shops set to hit 30,000 by 2025 UK’s largest coffee shop chains already extending the number of branches selling alcohol A fifth of consumers say they would visit coffee shops more often if they served a range of British craft beers Specialist ‘Beer Cafes’ growing in number across the UK New research […]
“The announcement that beer sales have stabilised is encouraging news for the British beer market. SIBA’s 2016 Beer Report showed that 4 out of 5 SIBA brewers expected turnover to increase this year and 1 in 6 expect to see production, sales and turnover double by 2018. Many of our members are investing in new […]
Calling all creative brewers, Imbibe Live’s Wheat Beer Challenge is open for entries at live.imbibe.com/beer-challenge. Entrants have until 20 May to register their entry, with delivery of samples between 13-17 June to Fuller’s in Chiswick. The winner will not only score a seasonal listing with a selection of Mitchells & Butlers’ leading pubs, but also […]
Drinkers of a new beer from South Shropshire’s Wood Brewery will support Midlands Air Ambulance Charity in its 25th anniversary year, with the brewery donating 5p for every pint of Red Rescue it sells. Brewery managing director Edward Wood has special reason to thank Midlands Air Ambulance Charity. In 2009, the airborne emergency service had […]
New research shows 1 in 3 people would visit restaurants more often if they served a range of independent craft brewed beer New independent research released by the Society of Independent Brewers (SIBA) shows that more than 1 in 3 people would visit restaurants more often if they served a range of craft brewed […]
If a gathering of lions is referred to as a pride, and a group of baboons is a flange, what then do you think is the collective noun when a collective of Scottish Independent Brewers all find themselves in the same bar? It would have been handy to know on Thursday (14th April), as that […]
SIBA Supplier Associate Member AdProfile recently worked on a rebrand of Shakespeare Brewing Co, the below is the story behind the brand and a look at the new designs. by AdProfile Ale often played a major part in many of William Shakespeare’s plays and we know that the great Bard was not unaccustomed to the […]
SIBA’s South West Independent Beer Awards 2016, Tuckers Maltings Beer Festival 14th April 2016 SIBA, the Society of Independent Brewers, has today announced the South West region’s best beers following last night’s intensive judging at the SIBA South West Independent Beer Awards 2016. The competition took place at the Tuckers Maltings Beer Festival, Newton Abbot, […]