Twisted Tree and Gloucester Brewery scoop top awards at Indie Beer Awards Midlands & West

The two top awards in cask and keg at the Indie Beer Awards Midlands & West have been scooped by Twisted Tree Brewery in Oxfordshire and Gloucester Brewery in Gloucestershire, in a record-sized competition judging beers from across the Midlands and West of England.

Twisted Tree Brewery's 'The Bark Side' Black IPA wowed judges in the Cask beer competition, taking the Overall Champion Gold with a beer where "Rich roasted malts meet vibrant hops, delivering notes of coffee, dark chocolate, citrus, and a resinous finish."

The Overall Champion Keg beer was awarded to Gloucester Brewery's 'NEIPA', an a New England style hazy IPA which they say is their "most heavily hopped beer, bursting with an incredible tropical fruit aroma and a luxuriously soft, rounded mouthfeel."

Andy Slee, Chief Executive of the Society of Independent Brewers and Associates (SIBA), who organise the Indie Beer Awards, was on hand to dish out the medals and had this to say of this year's winners; "In what was our biggest ever Midlands and West awards - with well over two hundred and fifty beers judged in cask and keg - the quality across the board was truly outstanding. Massive congratulations to all of today's winners and of course Twisted Tree and Gloucester who were named the best of the best and take home the Overall Champion Golds. A huge well done!"

The Indie Beer Awards are run by and for independent brewers and are judged by fellow brewers from elsewhere in the UK, as well other representatives from the industry and expert beer judges – making these the much coveted ‘brewers’ choice’ awards in the Midlands and West.

The Society of Independent Brewers and Associates (SIBA) represents independent brewers across the UK, and all the winners of the Midlands & West Indie Beer Awards will now go on to the National Finals at the BeerX UK event in Liverpool, March 2025. 

The judging took place at the Nottingham Robin Hood Beer & Cider Festival 2025 at Trent Bridge Cricket Ground, which continues today and over the weekend and where all of the award-winning beers will be on sale. For more information visit https://nottinghambf.camra.org.uk 

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Full winners list www.siba.co.uk/ibawinners 

Judging and awards presentation photos: click here 

Photo Caption: (L-R) Andy Slee of SIBA presents the awards to sponsors RLBS and Rudd Macnamara on behalf of Twisted Tree and Gloucester

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