Finalists in the SIBA Business Awards 2025 have been revealed. The winners will be announced in Liverpool in just under two week’s time.
“The judging process this year was the hardest the panel has ever been faced with, such was the quality of entries across the board,” said SIBA chief executive Andy Slee.
“Being named a finalist is a huge achievement in itself, and I look forward to joining you all to reveal the winners at the awards ceremony in Liverpool in just under two weeks’ time.”
For the first time this year there is a diversity champion of the year award. This has been developed in partnership with industry group Women on Tap CIC. It celebrates independent breweries who have made equity, diversity, and inclusivity a central part of their business, be that with a focus on gender, sexual orientation, race and ethnicity, socioeconomic background, disability, neurodiversity, or age.
The awards will be presented on Wednesday, 19th March, at BeerX UK in Liverpool, by beer writer and broadcaster Pete Brown. Event tickets are available here.
The finalists
Marketing implementation
Siren Craft Brew
Hand Brew Co
Campervan
Vault City
Sustainable business
One Planet
Renegade
Stroud Brewery
Thornbridge
Windsor & Eton
Community engagement
Bristol Beer Factory
Hogs Back
Tap Social
Hand Brew Co
Individual design
Hackney Church Brew Co
Indie Rabble
Thornbridge and Titanic
Twice Brewed
Queer Brewing
Concept design
Abbeydale
Campervan
Colbier
Dolphin
Lost Cause
Business innovation
Thornbridge
Crafty Brewing
Three Brothers
Tap Social
Commercial achievement
Bullhouse
Bollington
Jiddlers Tipple
Hackney Church
Diversity champion of the year
Good Chemistry
Hand Brew Co
Queer Brewing
Employer of the year
40ft
Abbeydale
Tap Social
Vault City
Best collaboration
Charles Faram and Bristol Beer Factory
Full Circle and Oddballs
Siren and Paris Gold
Thornbridge and Brooklyn
UK’s best new independent brewery
Colbier
Kerroo
Twisted Tree
UK’s Bbest independent brewery taproom
Brew York
Brolly Brewing
The Indian Brewery
SALT
UK’s best independent brewery webshop
Colbier
Double-Barrelled
Orbit
Siren
UK’s best independent beer retailer
Brewser
The Epicurean
Hops Burns & Black
Bier Huis
UK’s best independent beer bar or pub, city
Bullhouse East, Belfast
Tamworth Tap, Tamworth
Siren RG1, Reading
Kings Head, Bristol
Rock Bottom, Falkirk
UK’s best independent beer bar or pub, rural
Northstowe Tap & Social, Northstowe
The Bailey Head, Oswestry
The Brewers 1841, Ossett
Crafty Dragon, Whitchurch
SIBA member voted categories
Brewers’ brewer of the year
Combie Bryan, Round Corner
Georgina Young, St Austell
Hayden Edge-Mannering, Lymestone Brewery
Sam Lloyd-Jones, Windsor & Eton
William Mayne, Bullhouse
Supplier associate of the year
Festival Glass
Loughran Brewers Select
Micro Can
Saxon Packaging (Smurfit Westrock Saxon)
