New-look SIBA reveals UK’s best beers

New-look SIBA reveals UK’s best beers

The results are in for the UK’s biggest independent beer competition, with three breweries taking overall gold across the cask, keg, and bottle/can competitions at the SIBA Independent Beer Awards 2024.

It was Hammerton brewery’s City of Cake stout that took home Gold in the cask competition, Harrogate Brewing Co’s Nidd Mild won the top keg award, and Burning Sky brewery’s Le Cœur De Provision was named the best in class in the bottle and can section.

Judged by brewers and industry experts and organised by the Society of Independent Brewers and Associates (SIBA) at its flagship BeerX UK event in Liverpool, the awards run across a huge range of style categories in cask, craft keg, bottle and can.

SIBA competitions chair Anneli Baxter said: “It is a pleasure to see so many superb beers from independent breweries of all sizes taking home golds in this year’s awards. It is incredibly tough to win a category gold at a regional level, so to then go on and be named the very best in the whole of the UK at the national awards is a massive achievement that these brewers should be hugely proud of.

“Well done to all of the winners but particularly Hammerton, Burning Sky and Harrogate who took home our top awards of the night.”

SIBA has launched a new brand identity (pictured) and a change in its name to reflect the expanding membership, becoming the Society of Independent Brewers and Associates.

Chief executive Andy Slee said: “Independent beer and brewers are the heart of what SIBA is about and always will be. As our organisation has grown to reflect wider parts of the industry, we’ve evolved our name to include that.

 “We’ve taken the opportunity of a rebrand to build on the SIBA name that we’re best known by, and to clarify the wider appeal of SIBA membership and what it means to be a part of that – putting independence at the heart of who we are.”

WHO WON WHAT

Cask Session Dark Beer 

 

 

Brewery 

Product 

ABV 

Gold 

 Wolf Brewery  

 Sirius Dog Star  

4.4 

Silver 

 Padstow Brewing Co  

 Padstow Pilot  

4.0 

Bronze 

 Triple fff Brewery  

 Pressed Rat & Warthog  

3.8 

Cask British Dark Beer 

 

Sponsored by Framax 

 

 

 

Brewery 

Product 

ABV 

Gold 

Twisted Oak Brewery 

 Ghost Town  

5.7 

Silver 

Grain Brewery  

 Blackwood  

4.5 

Bronze 

 Ardgour Ales  

 Bainne nan Gobhar  

4.5 

Cask British Bitter 

 

Sponsored by Simpsons Malt 

 

Brewery 

Product 

ABV 

Gold 

 North Cotswold Brewery  

 Falstaff's Folly  

4.0 

Silver 

 Harviestoun Brewery  

 Bitter and Twisted  

3.8 

Bronze 

 Utopian Brewing  

 British Pale Ale  

4.4 

Cask British Best Bitter  

 

Sponsored by Thomas Fawcett & Sons 

 

Brewery 

Product 

ABV 

Gold 

 Salopian Brewery  

 Golden Thread  

5.0 

Silver 

Branscombe Vale Brewery  

 SummaThat  

5.0 

Bronze 

 Mauldons Brewery  

 Suffolk Pride  

4.8 

Cask Session Pale Ale 

 

Sponsored by Muntons PLC  

 

Brewery 

Product 

ABV 

Gold 

 Oakham Ales  

 Citra  

4.2 

Silver 

 Eight Arch Brewing Co  

 Square Logic  

4.2 

Bronze 

 Long Man Brewery  

 Long Blonde  

3.8 

Cask Pale Ale 

 

Sponsored by Murphy &    Son Ltd 

 

Brewery 

Product 

ABV 

Gold 

 Salopian Brewery  

 Paper Planes  

4.6 

Silver 

 Quantock Brewery  

 Radicle  

4.5 

Bronze 

Norfolk Brewhouse
Moon Gazer Ale  

 Cheeky Jack  

5.0 

Cask IPA  

 

Sponsored by Charles Faram 

 

Brewery 

Product 

ABV 

Gold 

 Grain Brewery  

 Lignum Vitae  

6.5 

Silver 

 Blue Monkey Brewery  

 Infinity Plus 1  

5.6 

Bronze 

 Loch Lomond Brewery  

  Bravehop  

6.0 

Cask Speciality Light Beer 

 

 

Brewery 

Product 

ABV 

Gold 

Blackedge Brewing Company

 Shake  

4.6 

Silver 

 Nuttycombe Brewery  

 Doonicans  

4.2 

Bronze 

 Chiltern Brewery   

 Earl Grey IPA  

3.9 

 

Cask Speciality Amber to Dark Beer 

 

 

 

Brewery 

Product 

ABV 

Gold 

 Hammerton  

 City of Cake  

5.5 

Silver 

 North Cotswold Brewery  

 Hung, Drawn 'N' Double Port  

6.1 

Bronze 

 Hawkshead Brewery  

 Brune  

6.0 

Cask Imperial & Strong Beer 

  

 

Brewery 

Product 

ABV 

Gold 

 Elusive Brewing  

 Ravenwood  

6.8 

Silver 

 Moor Beer Company  

 Old Freddy Walker  

7.3 

Bronze 

Consolidated Craft Breweries Broughton Brewery  

 Old Jock Scotch Ale   

6.7 

 

BOTTLE & CAN 

Bottle/Can Non-Alcoholic & Low ABV 

 

Sponsored by Napthens 

 

 

Brewery 

Product 

ABV 

Gold 

 Hogs Back Brewery  

 Little Swine   

0.5 

Silver 

 Geipel Brewing  

 Zeppelin  

2.8 

Bronze 

Firebrand Brewing

 Shorebreak AF Pale Ale  

0.5 

Bottle/Can Session Lager 

 

Sponsored by Premier Systems 

 

Brewery 

Product 

ABV 

Gold 

 Stroud Brewery  

 Light Organic Lager  

4.0 

Silver 

 The Park Brewery  

 1637 Pils  

4.4 

Bronze 

 Weetwood Ales  

 Weetwood Pilsner  

4.2 

Bottle/Can Premium Lager 

 

Sponsored by Vale Labels 

 

Brewery 

Product 

ABV 

Gold 

 Ilkley Brewery Co   

 Slake  

4.5 

Silver 

 Eight Arch Brewing Co  

 Little Dragon  

4.5 

Bronze 

 Pillars Brewery  

 Helles  

4.8 

Bottle/Can British Ales 

 

 

Brewery 

Product 

ABV 

Gold 

 Keswick Brewing Co  

 Keswick Special Bitter  

4.8 

Silver 

 Dancing Duck Brewery  

 22  

4.3 

Bronze 

 Lacons Brewery 

 Encore   

3.8 

Bottle/Can Session Pale 

 

Sponsored by Lemon Top Creative 

 

Brewery 

Product 

ABV 

Gold 

 Bewdley Brewery  

Wild River Brew Co Sabrina Not-England IPA   

4.0 

Silver 

Wight Knuckle Brewery   

 Pale Ale  

4.0 

Bronze 

 Attic Brew Co 

 Intuition  

4.4 

Bottle/Can Pale Ale 

 

Sponsored by Rawlings Group with Vigo 

 

 

Brewery 

Product 

ABV 

Gold 

Yonder Brewing and Blending  

 Boosh  

4.5 

Silver 

Brew York  

 Coney 

4.5 

Bronze 

Loud Shirt Brewing Co  

 Hazed & Confused  

4.5 

Bottle/Can IPA 

 

Sponsored by
Croxsons 

 

Brewery 

Product 

ABV 

Gold 

 Atom Brewing Co  

 Ultrasonic  

6.0 

Silver 

RedWillow Brewery  

 Perceptionless  

6.6 

Bronze 

Wild Horse Brewing Co  

 Tramcar  

6.5 

Bottle/Can Double & Triple IPA 

 

Sponsored by GEA 

 

Brewery 

Product 

ABV 

Gold 

 SALT Beer Factory  

 IKAT  

8.0 

Silver 

 Quantock Brewery  

 Mind Your Head, Rhys!  

7.5 

Bronze 

 Loch Lomond Brewery   

 Only Happy when it rains  

7.5 

Bottle/Can Speciality IPA 

 

Sponsored by Beatson Clark 

 

 

Brewery 

Product 

ABV 

Gold 

Purple Moose Brewery 

 High Hops  

5.4 

Silver 

Hop Union Brewery  

 Bloody Nora  

4.7 

Bronze 

Baker’s Dozen Brewing Co

 Spanish Inquisition  

5.4 

 


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