SIBA Business Awards All the winners from this year’s awards

Brew York - SIBA Brewery Business of the Year winners

The SIBA Business Awards 2022

Brew York was named SIBA Brewery Business of the Year 2022 at the SIBA Business Awards at BeerX in March.

The winners in the SIBA Business Awards 2022 received their awards in person for the first time since the pandemic began, with celebrations taking place at this year’s BeerX in Liverpool. The awards highlight the very best businesses from across the beer and brewing industry in a diverse range of awards categories. The big winners were Brew York – who were named Brewery Business of the Year 2022 – and Charles Faram, who were named SIBA Supplier Associate of the Year. Brew York MD Wayne Smith and Production Director Lee Graham were on hand to accept the prestigious award. “We’re overwhelmed to win this award after such a difficult two years. It really is down to hard work from the whole team and they will be over the moon with this!” Wayne Smith, Managing Director. “It’s just amazing to win this and achieve what we have in this period – looking at what this industry has had to endure it’s just incredible. We’re just really proud of our team,” Lee Grabham, Production Director added. The SIBA Business Awards are judged by a panel of independent beer industry experts, and organised by SIBA. The awards cover everything from brewery marketing, design and innovation, to efforts to make businesses more sustainable or impactful. The awards this year include three new categories in response to shifting consumer buying habits over the last year: “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 within their local communities over the last year. “Huge, huge congratulations to the winners in the SIBA Business Awards 2022. We had a record number of entries and the quality was higher than ever, so these really are the very best of the best in the industry and should be so proud of the achievement. I want to particularly congratulate Brew York, our Brewery Business of the Year 2022 – who not only survived but thrived over the last year, showing incredible resilience and business savvy to grow a business in an incredibly tough trading period for beer. I would also like to congratulate Charles Faram, who were voted by brewers as their Supplier Associate of the Year 2022 - a huge accolade that is richly deserved,” said Neil Walker, SIBA Business Awards Chair of Judges. Joining the expert judging panel for 2022 were Caroline Nodder, Editor of Independent Brewer and the SIBA British Craft Beer Report; Kate Oppenheim, KO Media and Editor of BII News; Barry Watts, Head of Public Affairs & Policy at SIBA; Jo Hunter, Interior & Architectural Design expert and founder of Hunter’s Daughter; Ellie Hudspith, Senior Campaigns Manager at CAMRA; and Robyn Black, Head of Content at Fleetstreet Comms and former Editor of Inapub.

Read more about our winner Brew York in our Business Profile on pages 32-39 in this issue.

WINNERS

Marketing Implementation Siren Craft Brew - WINNER

Sustainable Business Barnaby’s Brewhouse - WINNER Ludlow Brewing - HIGHLY COMMENDED

Best Individual Design Brewgooder - WINNER Bundobust/North Brewing Co. - HIGHLY COMMENDED

Business Innovation Bullhouse - WINNER Community Engagement Full Circle - WINNER

Best Concept Design Moonwake - WINNER

Commercial Achievement Brew York - WINNER

UK's Best Independent Craft Brewery Taproom Farm Yard Brew Co., Lancaster - WINNER UK's Best Independent Craft Brewery Webshop Timothy Taylor’s - WINNER

UK's Best Independent Craft Beer Retailer – Multiple Hoppily - WINNER

UK's Best Independent Craft Beer Retailer – Online Honest Brew - WINNER

UK’s Best Independent Craft Beer Bar or Pub – Rural Fox & Hounds Beerhouse, Caversham - WINNER UK's Best Independent Craft Beer Retailer – Single Bottle Monkey - WINNER Brewery Market - HIGHLY COMMENDED

UK’s Best Independent Craft Beer Bar or Pub – City Craft Republic, Barry - WINNER

UK's Best Independent Craft Beer Promotion Pellicle - WINNER

Supplier Associate of the year (Brewer nominated) Charles Faram - WINNER SIBA Brewery Business of the Year Brew York - WINNER

SIBA Lifetime Achievement Award 2022

The SIBA Lifetime Achievement Award celebrates an individual who has made an outstanding contribution not only to SIBA, but to the UK brewing industry at a local or National level over many years.

This year the award is sadly a posthumous one, and goes to Mark Wallington who sadly dies last year. Mark was a former RAF Pilot turned brewer, who with the creation of Archer Brewery in 1979 became a founding member of SIBA, moving on to become the Finance Director for the trade association from 2001 to 2009.

A familiar and welcome face at SIBA events and competitions over the years he was never without his trademark half-pint tankard in his hand; although those that new him best say they were never quite sure whether the halfpint was to limit his drinking or to increase it.

Mark’s daughters Chloe and Esther were able to join the ceremony at BeerX and collect the award on his behalf.

Mark Wallington

1944-2021

Collected by his daughters Chloe & Ester