South East
October 26, 2016 | by SibaAdmin | East, South East, Uncategorized
A Hertfordshire grower and two brewers have converted a 480 lb pumpkin into ~3,000 pints of delicious pumpkin beer for Halloween. And a Halloween promotion of the beer at a local pub will raise money for Prostate Cancer UK. New River Brewery LTD, a local craft brewery based in Hoddesdon, have teamed up with Douglas […]
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October 18, 2016 | by SibaAdmin | South East, Uncategorized
The arrival of three new fermenting and maturation vessels at Hogs Back Brewery has marked the start of a £400,000 expansion programme at the Surrey brewer. The installation of one 80-barrel and two 120-barrel dual purpose vessels also includes the infrastructure for a further four 120-barrel vessels, as well as a new boiler and chilling […]
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October 18, 2016 | by SibaAdmin | South East, Uncategorized
Hogs Back Brewery has marked a successful hop harvest with a party, which included a £7,500 charity donation and the triumphant return of Paralympic double gold medallist Georgie Hermitage, who used to work at the brewery. Over the course of the day around 800 guests attended the Hop Harvest Festival at the brewery in Tongham, […]
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September 1, 2016 | by SibaAdmin | South East, Uncategorized
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 […]
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July 20, 2016 | by SibaAdmin | South East, Uncategorized
West Berkshire Brewery has secured a seasonal listing this autumn with M&B’s leading Castle group of pubs for Wheaty McWheat Face, its new beer brewed for Imbibe Live’s Wheat Beer Challenge, as well as a trip for two to visit the Pilsner Urquell brewery in the Czech Republic. Beating off Boss Brewing, Harviestoun, Little Beer […]
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July 14, 2016 | by SibaAdmin | South East, Uncategorized
West Berkshire Brewery (WBB) have added three new awards to their ever expanding trophy cabinet. Two gold awards were won at the Society of Independent Brewers Association (SIBA) South East competition on Friday 8th July. The craft brewery were also champion of the Imbibe Live Wheat Beer Challenge 2016 which took place at Olympia, London. […]
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July 9, 2016 | by SibaAdmin | South East, Uncategorized
Yesterday evening saw beers from East Sussex’s Black Cat Brewery and Berkshire’s Windsor & Eton Brewery take home Gold in the Society of Independent Brewers (SIBA) South East Independent Beer Awards. SIBA Chairman Guy Sheppard, who presented the awards and is himself a brewer, had this to say on the entries this year, “The quality […]
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April 20, 2016 | by SibaAdmin | East, Midlands, North East, North West, Scotland, SIBA National, South East, South West, Uncategorized, wales and west
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 […]
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March 4, 2016 | by SibaAdmin | South East, Uncategorized
A total of 30 beers from the Society of Independent Brewers’ (SIBA) South East region have been selected for a place in the National finals taking place at BeerX, SIBA’s flagship event. There will be a total of 8 cask beers, 7 ‘small pack’ (bottled and canned) beers, and 15 craft keg beers in the […]
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March 1, 2016 | by SibaAdmin | Midlands, South East, South West, Uncategorized
The first ever brewing course at the Royal Agricultural University, Cirencester (RAU), in its 171 year history, will be taking place later this month, on 7-11 March 2016. A refresher course for the Institute of Brewing & Distilling’s Diploma Level, its participants will include trainee brewers from local Cotswolds breweries Gloucester Brewery, Hook Norton Brewery […]
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