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BUSINESS AWARDS Brewery Business of the Year 2020 winners North Brewing Co
SIBA BUSINESS AWARDS 2022: RECOGNISING EXCELLENCE IN THE INDEPENDENT CRAFT BEER INDUSTRY The SIBA Business Awards seek to congratulate excellence in the brewing industry across a variety of categories, from pump clip, can and bottle design, to efforts taken by brewers to make their business more sustainable, innovative or successful, as well as naming the UK’s best bars and retailers of craft beer from independent breweries. The SIBA Business Awards 2022 will include three new categories in response to shifting consumer buying habits over the last year, making them the biggest set of awards ever dished out to the industry by the craft brewing trade body. The awards now include categories for the “UK’s Best Independent Craft Beer Retailer – Online”, “UK’s Best Independent Craft Brewery Webshop” and “Community Engagement”, the latter award aimed at breweries which have cemented themselves as assets of their local communities in recent years. The hotly contested award for the “UK’s Best Independent Craft Brewery Taproom” also returns in 2022, following huge interest since its launch in 2020. “The SIBA Business Awards 2022 are the first of our National awards as BeerX UK makes its triumphant return to Liverpool Exhibition Centre. The new categories which recognise the huge growth in online beer retail, as well as the new Community Engagement award which highlights breweries who engage with and benefit their surrounding communities, make these awards more important than ever. Judged by a panel of industry experts and presented in front of the largest gathering of beer and brewing professionals in the UK, the SIBA Business Awards 2022 really are a unique opportunity to give the UK’s best beer or brewing businesses the recognition they deserve.” Neil Walker, Chair of Judges, SIBA Business Awards.
Pete Brown to present the SIBA Business Awards 2022 The SIBA Business Awards 2022 will be presented 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 Fortnum & Mason Food and Drink Awards, been shortlisted twice for the Andre Simon Awards, and in 2020 was named an “Industry Legend” at the Imbibe Hospitality Awards.
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