The Society of Independent Brewers and Associates (SIBA) has announced that the entry deadline for its 2026 Business Awards has been extended to 16th February.
The awards, presented in association with Napthens Solicitors, seek to congratulate excellence in the brewing industry across a variety of categories, as well as naming the UK’s best pubs, bars, and retailers of beer from independent breweries.
The categories are:
- Marketing implementation
- Sustainable business
- Community engagement
- Individual design
- Concept design
- Business innovation
- Commercial achievement
- Best collaboration
- Diversity champion of the year
- Employer of the year
- Brewing industry individual newcomer of the year
- UK’s best new independent brewery
- UK’s best independent brewery taproom
- UK’s best independent brewery webshop
- UK’s best independent beer retailer
- UK’s best independent beer bar or pub, city
- UK’s best independent beer bar or pub, rural
- Brewers’ brewer of theyear (brewer nominated)
- Supplier associate of the year (brewer nominated)
- Independent beer champion of the year (brewer nominated)
- SIBA brewery business of the year (judging panel awarded)
