Entries open for Guild of Beer Writers Awards If you know someone who writes, blogs or broadcasts about beer, please encourage them to enter the British Guild of Beer Writers’ annual awards, which are now open for entries. The Awards aim to reward the best communication about beer and pubs. Winners and runners up in […]
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 […]
Elgoods Brewery are looking for innovative partner brewers who are interested in producing Sour Beers using Coolship Blonde as a base beer. Coolship Blonde is a true Lambic style beer , brewed using open cooling trays , wild yeast and spontaneous fermentation resulting ( after a 12 – 18 months fermentation )in a blonde , […]
The breweries chosen as finalists in the 2016 Imbibe Wheat Beer Challenge have today been announced, with all five being independent craft brewers from the Society of Independent Brewers (SIBA). Boss Brewing, Heavy Industry, West Berkshire Brewing, The Little Beer Corporation and Harviestoun will fight it out to be named the ‘UK’s best wheat beer’ […]
“What Britain’s independent brewers require now is stability to enable them to run their businesses as normal and continue to brew great beers for the British people. As an increasing number of independent craft brewers look to expand markets beyond our shores through export, we will be keeping a close eye on developments over the […]
The Editors of a new brewing book have extended an an invite to SIBA Members. The official launch of Brewing, Beer and Pubs: a Global Perspective will be held at York Brewery on Friday 15 July 2015 – starting at 5.00pm, with a public debate running from 5.30pm until 7.00pm. The debate will see the […]
Cullercoats Brewery has raised £25,000 for the RNLI with the sale of over 835,000 pints of beer inspired by the heroism of their local lifeboat crew. The brewery, established by Bill and Anna Scantlebury in 2011, is a staunch supporter of the lifeboat charity and donates 3p for every pint sold Bill said he was […]
The Golden Ale that started a trend and made beer history celebrates its 30th birthday in July with the brewery’s 10,000th brew. Thirty years ago Exmoor Ales (then called Golden Hill), created a special one-off beer to celebrate its 1000th brew. That beer was Exmoor Gold and it has been brewed ever since, winning many […]
Tomorrow (Saturday 11th) is set to be a bumper celebration day as commemorative beers from British independent craft brewers are raised in support of the Queen’s 90th birthday and England’s opening match of Euro 2016. Details of a string of celebration ales have been released by SIBA, the Society of Independent Brewers, who’s craft beer […]
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