SIBA Business Awards 2023 Finalists: The UK’s Best Independent Beer Businesses Revealed

The Finalists in the SIB A Business Awards 2023 have today been revealed, highlighting the ver y best breweries, taprooms, retailers, pubs and beer industr y businesses from across the UK

The SIB A Business Awards seek to congratulate excellence in the brewing industr y across a variety of categories from pump clip can and bottle design to effor ts taken by brewers to make their business more sustainable , innovative or successful, as well as naming the UK’s best pubs, bars and retailers of craft beer from independent breweries

The 2023 awards will also for the first time include a new Empowering People Award, which seeks to highlight the best breweries in the UK to work for by empowering and suppor ting their teams and championing inclusivity and diversity

The new award places a spotlight on independent craft breweries who go above and beyond for the members of their team; empowering people to achieve more in their professional career, introducing initiatives and incentives which create a positive working environment, making effor ts to promote diversity and inclusivity or providing benefits or suppor t mechanisms which encourage a happier healthier life for employees

“With hundreds of superb entries from across the UK I would like to say a huge congratulations to all of the breweries and beer businesses named as finalists in the SIB A Business Awards 2023 To make it this far is a huge huge achievement and the judging panel had an incredibly tough job this year such was the quality of entries overall I’d also like to wish the finalists good luck ahead of the awards presentation at BeerX in Liverpool on the 15th March – I look forward to congratulating the winners, including this year ’ s prestigious Brewer y Business of the Year 2023 ” Neil Walker, Chair of Judges

Joining the exper t judging panel for 2023 were Andy Slee , SIB A Chief Executive; Caroline Nodder, Editor of Independent Brewer and the SIB A British Craft Beer Repor t; Alex Metcalfe lead on C AMRA Learn & Discover ; Jo Hunter, Interior & Architectural Design exper t and founder of Hunter’s Daughter ; Charlie Docher ty, SIB A Business Development Officer ; and Neil Walker, SIB A Head of Comms & Marketing, who chaired the panel

The SIB A Business Awards 2023 will be presented on Wednesday 15th March at BeerX UK in Liverpool by acclaimed beer author journalist, broadcaster and consultant Pete Brown Named British Guild of Beer Writers’ “Beer Writer of the Year” in 2009, 2012, 2016 and 2021, Pete has won three For tnum & Mason Food and Drink Awards, been shor tlisted twice for the Andre Simon Awards, and in 2020 was named an “Industr y Legend” at the Imbibe Hospitality Awards