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
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Brewery |
Product |
ABV |
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Gold |
Wolf Brewery |
Sirius Dog Star |
4.4 |
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Silver |
Padstow Brewing Co |
Padstow Pilot |
4.0 |
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Bronze |
Triple fff Brewery |
Pressed Rat & Warthog |
3.8 |
Cask British Dark Beer
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Sponsored by Framax
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Brewery |
Product |
ABV |
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Gold |
Twisted Oak Brewery |
Ghost Town |
5.7 |
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Silver |
Grain Brewery |
Blackwood |
4.5 |
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Bronze |
Ardgour Ales |
Bainne nan Gobhar |
4.5 |
Cask British Bitter
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Sponsored by Simpsons Malt |
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Brewery |
Product |
ABV |
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Gold |
North Cotswold Brewery |
Falstaff's Folly |
4.0 |
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Silver |
Harviestoun Brewery |
Bitter and Twisted |
3.8 |
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Bronze |
Utopian Brewing |
British Pale Ale |
4.4 |
Cask British Best Bitter
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Sponsored by Thomas Fawcett & Sons |
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Brewery |
Product |
ABV |
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Gold |
Salopian Brewery |
Golden Thread |
5.0 |
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Silver |
Branscombe Vale Brewery |
SummaThat |
5.0 |
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Bronze |
Mauldons Brewery |
Suffolk Pride |
4.8 |
Cask Session Pale Ale
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Sponsored by Muntons PLC |
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Brewery |
Product |
ABV |
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Gold |
Oakham Ales |
Citra |
4.2 |
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Silver |
Eight Arch Brewing Co |
Square Logic |
4.2 |
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Bronze |
Long Man Brewery |
Long Blonde |
3.8 |
Cask Pale Ale
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Sponsored by Murphy & Son Ltd |
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Brewery |
Product |
ABV |
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Gold |
Salopian Brewery |
Paper Planes |
4.6 |
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Silver |
Quantock Brewery |
Radicle |
4.5 |
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Bronze |
Norfolk Brewhouse |
Cheeky Jack |
5.0 |
Cask IPA
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Sponsored by Charles Faram |
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Brewery |
Product |
ABV |
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Gold |
Grain Brewery |
Lignum Vitae |
6.5 |
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Silver |
Blue Monkey Brewery |
Infinity Plus 1 |
5.6 |
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Bronze |
Loch Lomond Brewery |
Bravehop |
6.0 |
Cask Speciality Light Beer
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Brewery |
Product |
ABV |
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Gold |
Blackedge Brewing Company |
Shake |
4.6 |
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Silver |
Nuttycombe Brewery |
Doonicans |
4.2 |
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Bronze |
Chiltern Brewery |
Earl Grey IPA |
3.9 |
Cask Speciality Amber to Dark Beer
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Brewery |
Product |
ABV |
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Gold |
Hammerton |
City of Cake |
5.5 |
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Silver |
North Cotswold Brewery |
Hung, Drawn 'N' Double Port |
6.1 |
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Bronze |
Hawkshead Brewery |
Brune |
6.0 |
Cask Imperial & Strong Beer
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Brewery |
Product |
ABV |
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Gold |
Elusive Brewing |
Ravenwood |
6.8 |
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Silver |
Moor Beer Company |
Old Freddy Walker |
7.3 |
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Bronze |
Consolidated Craft Breweries Broughton Brewery |
Old Jock Scotch Ale |
6.7 |
BOTTLE & CAN
Bottle/Can Non-Alcoholic & Low ABV
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Sponsored by Napthens
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Brewery |
Product |
ABV |
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Gold |
Hogs Back Brewery |
Little Swine |
0.5 |
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Silver |
Geipel Brewing |
Zeppelin |
2.8 |
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Bronze |
Firebrand Brewing |
Shorebreak AF Pale Ale |
0.5 |
Bottle/Can Session Lager
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Sponsored by Premier Systems |
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Brewery |
Product |
ABV |
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Gold |
Stroud Brewery |
Light Organic Lager |
4.0 |
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Silver |
The Park Brewery |
1637 Pils |
4.4 |
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Bronze |
Weetwood Ales |
Weetwood Pilsner |
4.2 |
Bottle/Can Premium Lager
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Sponsored by Vale Labels |
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Brewery |
Product |
ABV |
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Gold |
Ilkley Brewery Co |
Slake |
4.5 |
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Silver |
Eight Arch Brewing Co |
Little Dragon |
4.5 |
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Bronze |
Pillars Brewery |
Helles |
4.8 |
Bottle/Can British Ales
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Brewery |
Product |
ABV |
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Gold |
Keswick Brewing Co |
Keswick Special Bitter |
4.8 |
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Silver |
Dancing Duck Brewery |
22 |
4.3 |
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Bronze |
Lacons Brewery |
Encore |
3.8 |
Bottle/Can Session Pale
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Sponsored by Lemon Top Creative |
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Brewery |
Product |
ABV |
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Gold |
Bewdley Brewery |
Wild River Brew Co Sabrina Not-England IPA |
4.0 |
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Silver |
Wight Knuckle Brewery |
Pale Ale |
4.0 |
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Bronze |
Attic Brew Co |
Intuition |
4.4 |
Bottle/Can Pale Ale
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Sponsored by Rawlings Group with Vigo
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Brewery |
Product |
ABV |
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Gold |
Yonder Brewing and Blending |
Boosh |
4.5 |
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Silver |
Brew York |
Coney |
4.5 |
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Bronze |
Loud Shirt Brewing Co |
Hazed & Confused |
4.5 |
Bottle/Can IPA
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Sponsored by |
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Brewery |
Product |
ABV |
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Gold |
Atom Brewing Co |
Ultrasonic |
6.0 |
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Silver |
RedWillow Brewery |
Perceptionless |
6.6 |
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Bronze |
Wild Horse Brewing Co |
Tramcar |
6.5 |
Bottle/Can Double & Triple IPA
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Sponsored by GEA |
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Brewery |
Product |
ABV |
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Gold |
SALT Beer Factory |
IKAT |
8.0 |
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Silver |
Quantock Brewery |
Mind Your Head, Rhys! |
7.5 |
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Bronze |
Loch Lomond Brewery |
Only Happy when it rains |
7.5 |
Bottle/Can Speciality IPA
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Sponsored by Beatson Clark
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Brewery |
Product |
ABV |
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Gold |
Purple Moose Brewery |
High Hops |
5.4 |
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Silver |
Hop Union Brewery |
Bloody Nora |
4.7 |
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Bronze |
Baker’s Dozen Brewing Co |
Spanish Inquisition |
5.4 |
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