Salopian Brewery, Stroud Brewery, and Vale of Glamorgan Brewery (VOG) have taken home the three top spots in one of the UK’s biggest beer competitions – the SIBA Wales & West Independent Beer Awards 2024. Salopian Brewery was named the best of the best in the cask beer competition, taking the Overall Champion Gold Award, […]
The Vale of Glamorgan Brewery (VOG), and Geipel, based in Pant Glas, Gellioedd have taken home the two top awards in Wales & West biggest beer competition – the SIBA Wales & West Independent Beer Awards 2023. Vale of Glamorgan was named the best of the best in the cask beer competition, taking the Overall Champion […]
Leading industry figures that collectively represent the majority of Welsh pubs, hospitality, drinks producers and glass manufacturers have joined forces to urge the Welsh Government to avoid risking a trade barrier with the rest of the UK through the design of its forthcoming Deposit Return Scheme (DRS). DRS applies a deposit to drinks containers sold […]
Independent brewers across Wales urge Government to avoid pitfalls of adopting Scottish Deposit Return Scheme Wales’s small independent brewers have today written to the Welsh Government and Members of the Senedd, urging them to support small businesses by avoiding the pitfalls of Scotland’s much criticised Deposit Return Scheme. The letter, published today by the Society […]
Bewdley Brewery in Bewdley, Worcdestershire, and DEYA in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, have taken home the two top awards in SIBA’s Wales & West Independent Beer Awards, winning the “cask” and “bottle & can” competitions respectively – making them officially the best independent craft beers in the Wales & West region. The awards are run by the Society […]
“Today the Welsh Government has brought in the most restrictive measures in the UK, which will severely hit community pubs and small brewers at this critical time of the year. Table service and a reliance on ordering apps particularly harms small brewers as their beers are often hidden away compared to big brands, discouraging consumers […]
The best beers across Wales and the West of England have today been revealed with the announcement of this year’s winners in the SIBA Independent Beer Awards 2021 – the UK’s leading beer competition judged by brewers, beer sommeliers and expert tasters. The winning bottled and canned beers from Wales & West will now go […]
Responding to the statements by the First Minister in Wales on changes to the Covid-19 regulations, SIBA Chief Executive James Calder said: “The announcement that Wales will move fully into alert level one on Saturday and hopefully further next month will be some relief to frustrated pubs and brewers who have been amongst the hardest […]
Commenting on the announcement by the Welsh Government to introduce a ‘circuit breaker’ lockdown in Wales, James Calder, Chief Executive of the Society of Independent Brewers said: “The mounting speculation over the last week that Wales was about to move into a circuit breaker lockdown has already caused pubs to put a halt on orders from […]
The SIBA Digital Beer Awards 2020 are a National beer competition, featuring around 180 breweries from across the UK. Below you will find the Regional Results Table for Wales & West. To view the National Awards results please click here. SIBA Regional Digital Beer Awards 2020 Wales & West Results British Dark Beers (up to 4.4%) […]