Artefact Brewing and Chevallier Brewing take home the top beer awards at Indie Beer Awards East

The results are in at the Indie Beer Awards East, with breweries from across the East of England battling it out to be named the best across a range of awards categories in seperate cask and keg beer competitions. Taking home the two overall top spots were Artefect Brewing who were named Overall Champion of the Cask Beer Awards with their 'Mild', and Chevallier Brewing who won Overall Champion in keg for their 'Pressburger Pils' lager.

Artefact's dark mild is a long-standing customer favourite and is the first beer they released back in May 2020. The team had this to say on their win "Our first time entering cask beers in the Indie Beer Awards and we won two Golds and overall champion of the competition! Speechless hardly covers it."

The awards, which were judged and presented at the Peterborough CAMRA Beer Festival, are judged by beer sommeliers, master brewers and other expert beer judges from across the industry. Organised by the Society of Independent Brewers and Associates (SIBA), and formerly called the SIBA Independent Beer Awards, the awards have been renamed the Indie Beer Awards to align with the hugely successful Indie Beer campaign launched last year by the organisation.

Chief Executive of SIBA Andy Slee helped present the awards and had this to say; "First of all huge congratulations to all of our winners, this was a big competition which brought together the region's very best beers in cask and keg, across a huge range of styles - so just to win your beer category is a massive achievement. Particular plaudits must however go to our two Overall Champions Artefact and Chevallier, who then went upp against all of the other category winners to be named the 'best of the best' in the awards. 

I'd also like to thank local MPs Andrew Pakes and Sam Carling who not only came along to join the awards to support their constituency brewers but also took the time to hand out awards and congratulate many of them on their wins. Hugely appreciated by SIBA and by the brewers themselves."

The Indie Beer Awards included a broad range of beer styles, from pale ales and IPAs to porters, stouts and speciality beer styles. Gold winners from the awards will now go forwards to the National Finals in Liverpool March 2026.

Indie Beer Awards North East – Full Results: siba.co.uk/ibawinners

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Photo caption: "Andrew Pakes MP presents Mark Medland of Chevallier Brewing with the Overall Gold Indie Beer Award"

Note on photo to Editors: Chevallier Brewing is a trading name of Bruha Brewing, hence why the name badge on the below photo says 'Mark Medland - Bruha Brewing'. The caption above is correct.

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