In celebration of Great British Pie Week, Celebrity Chef Simon Rimmer returned to Robinsons Brewery Visitors Centre for an ample second serving of ‘Man vs. Food’ and to seek the answer to the question – ‘who ate all the pies?’ Determined to up the ante from the previous Man vs. Food battle in December, which […]
The Michelin-starred Box Tree restaurant has teamed up with neighbouring Ilkley Brewery and renowned beer sommALEier, Melissa Cole, to host a beer and food-matched dinner on Wednesday, March 26. This will be Ilkley Brewery’s second collaboration with the Michelin-starred restaurant; a move which demonstrates its ongoing engagement with, and commitment to, food and beer pairing. […]
Lee Mitchell is ready to put down the pints in exchange for his old hiking boots. Lee, the Duty Manager at the Alexander Graham Bell on George Street, will head off to climb the 19,341-foot goliath known as Kilimanjaro in mid-March. With a goal to raise £5000 for the cancer charity CLIC Sergeant, Lee looked […]
BeerX, SIBA’s celebration of British beer held in Sheffield, concluded on Friday with a ‘meet the buyers’ event bringing together brewers with buyers, importers and experts from a dozen foreign markets. The session, organised in conjunction with UK Trade and Investment (UKTI), was designed to offer practical advice to brewers looking to start exporting, or […]
The Society of Independent Brewers (SIBA) has given Lifetime Achievement Awards to the late Peter Austin, one of the organisation’s founders and its first chairman, who died in January, and to Derek Prentice, who retired last year from Fuller’s after a distinguished career in the brewing industry. The Awards were announced at SIBA’s BeerX event […]
Butcombe Brewery beat intense competition to take the title of Overall Brewery Business of the Year, announced today at the organisation’s BeerX event in Sheffield. Judges gave the top title in the SIBA Business Awards to Avon-based Butcombe for a highly effective campaign to raise the profile of its bottled beers among supermarket buyers, which […]
Delegates at BeerX, SIBA’s celebration of British beer in Sheffield, today welcomed Andrew Griffiths MP and Brandon Lewis MP as the first speakers at the event’s Industry Day. The past year, said Lewis, had been a “fantastic year for beer” following the end of the beer duty escalator in the Budget of 2013 and he […]
The Society of Independent Brewers (SIBA) has announced three Supreme Champions and 60 medal winners in its National Beer Competition 2014. The winners were unveiled at the organisation’s BeerX event in Sheffield. Top honours and the Supreme Champion titles went to: OSM (Old Sodbury Mild) from Cotswold Spring Brewery in the cask category; Fuller’s London […]
DATE OF JUDGING 11th March 2014 ANNOUNCEMENT 12th March 2014 Overall Champion of the Competition Sponsored by Close Brewery Rentals Brewery Product ABV Gold Cotswold Spring Brewery OSM 3.9 Silver Hastings Brewery Hastings Porter 4.5 Bronze Mordue Brewery Killswitch 51 5.0 Overall Champion of Bottled Beers Sponsored by Croxsons Brewery Product ABV Gold Bristol Beer […]
The Society of Independent Brewers (SIBA) has today named Guy Sheppard of Exe Valley Brewery as its new chairman, succeeding Keith Bott. At its AGM in Sheffield, members also voted for a change in SIBA’s structure which will merge the management of the trade association and the commercial arm, until now run as a separate […]