Have you – or will you be – brewing a brilliant IPA this year? Could it be the best in the country? If so, The IPA Challenge is for you. Imbibe Live is once more teaming up with SIBA, M&B, There’s A Beer For That and Fuller’s for its 2017 Beer Competition, to find the […]
The Society of Independent Brewers (SIBA) has responded to the publishing of the Liberal Democrat Election Manifesto, which highlights the importance of pubs to local communities and pledges the need for a review into small business rates. “It is heartening to see the Lib Dem Manifesto highlighting the importance of pubs to rural communities and […]
The Society of Independent Brewers (SIBA) has welcomed the news that the Labour manifesto, published today, sets out the need for a ‘National review of local pubs to examine the causes for their large-scale demise, as well as establishing a joint taskforce that will consider future sustainability’, but is prompting urgent action on beer tax […]
SIBA asks candidates to back independent brewers The Society of Independent Brewers (SIBA) is asking election candidates to ‘Back Britain’s independent craft brewing businesses’ by signing up to its Election Manifesto, published today. The Manifesto is being sent to parliamentary candidates ahead of the General Election and sets out a number of ways in which […]
SIBA, the Society of Independent Brewers, which represents over 850 of Britain’s independent craft breweries, has responded to the launch of a review of Small Breweries’ Relief (SBR) by consultancy Europe Economics by calling for it to include a full analysis of access to market for small brewers to ensure the review provides an accurate […]
The women and beer group, Dea Latis, is holding a beer and food tasting evening at The Old Blind School on Hardman Street on Thursday 13th April from 7.30pm. Led by the award-winning Beer Sommelier and beer training expert, Annabel Smith, guests will enjoy fascinating insight into women’s involvement in beer and brewing as well […]
Heineken-owned Star Pubs & Bars is to join the Society of Independent Brewers’ (SIBA’s) Beerflex* scheme offering licensees a wider choice of local cask ales. Under the agreement, Star licensees with Cask Marque* accredited pubs will be able to order local cask ales brewed by Beerflex participants within a 30-mile radius of their pubs. With […]
Burning Sky brewery in East Sussex have stopped a potential Scottish hat-trick in the Society of Independent Brewers (SIBA) National Independent Beer Awards, by taking home Gold in the Keg competition. The awards, the biggest of their kind ever seen in the UK with hundreds of cask, keg, bottled and canned beers judged across 5 […]
London-based Fourpure has been named the the Society of Independent Brewers “Brewery Business of the Year” in their annual Business Awards 2017. The awards, which took place at SIBA’s BeerX event in Sheffield last night, seek to congratulate the top brewery businesses in the UK across a variety of categories, as well as naming retailers, pubs, […]
SIBA members have the opportunity to pour and present their beer to the attendees of Beer Now during an event known as Live Beer Blogging on Saturday, March 18 from 15:00 to 16:00 in the Tap Room at iceSheffield. Participating breweries will also be invited to pour during the reception that follows Live Beer Blogging […]