Fifty Years of Brewing
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Up and Coming!
Two great events to look forward to in the next two months, SIBA BeerX 2026 and the next Brewing – The Fundamentals course in April. SIBA Beer X is the largest gathering of brewers from the independent brewery sector in the UK and takes place in Liverpool on 18th and 19th March. Beer X has […]
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Brewing: The Fundamentals, November 2025 Just a few of the great comments from people attending the latest course and we will be doing the same again in April and November next year. Please look for details and an application form on the training section of the Brewing Services web page. “This has been a truly […]
Fifty Years and counting …
Steve Hobman meets David Smith, the low-profile brewing guru who has had a hand in creating some of the UK’s best-known beers and breweries’ Our very own unsung beer guru has recently been elected to the the CAMRA Real Ale Hero’s Hall of Fame as he celebrates fifty years in the brewing industry and during […]
Another Successful Fundamentals of Brewing Course Wraps Up.
The course designed by brewers for brewers. Join us in York for the next one in spring 2026! More information coming soon.
A Business Success
David Smith explains the success and longevity of Brewing Services in conversation with podcaster Chris Fordy at Northern Powerhouses.
Society of Independent Brewers National Beer Awards 2025
Society of Independent Brewers National Beer Awards 2025. It’s so nice year on year to see brewers we have worked with do well in beer competitions at both regional and national level, and this year’s SIBA National competition was no exception. Just to make it to the finals is an accolade in itself and to […]
SIBA Independent Beer Awards 2025
It’s so nice year on year to see brewers we have worked with (highlighted in bold below), do well in beer competitions at both regional and national level, and this year’s SIBA National competition was no exception. Just to make it to the finals is an accolade in itself and to know you are amongst […]
Congratulations to Acorn Brewery, Cairngorm Brewery, Purple Moose Brewery and Old Farmhouse Brewery!
Plenty to celebrate this February: Last week we saw CAMRA hold their 2025 Winter Beer Festival at Magna Science Adventure Centre near Sheffield and it was pleasing to see two of our breweries come away with gongs in their respective categories; Acorn Brewery won a bronze medal for Gorlovka Imperial Stout, 6.5%Alc., in the Strong […]
Complete 50hl DME Brewery for Sale
A complete brewhouse system manufactured by DME with a number of DPV’s and other equipment available to purchase. • Brewhouse including Malt Handling, HLT and CLT, Mash Tun and Wort Manifold, Wort Kettle, Brewing platform, CIP Cleaning System, plate & Frame sheet filter & 2 x membrane cartridge filter, Hopnick, brewery steps, large-capacity Glycol chiller […]
‘Help support locally produced beers from truly Independent Brewers’.
This is the message from SIBA, the Society of Independent Brewers and Associates, who have launched a new campaign which is seeking to make it easier for beer drinkers to identify beer from independent breweries in pubs, bars, and shops as demand for local beer rises across the UK. Whilst it’s pleasing to see brewery […]
35 years and counting: still welcoming brewers on the course ‘designed by brewers for brewers’.
“The understanding of the science of brewing should be a fundamental part of the skills of the brewing team, to optimise efficiency, consistency and, above all, quality.” Rob Smith Back in October 1989, we wrote and ran the first “Fundamentals of Mini-Brewing” course in Malton, and this has now become what we believe is the […]
Congratulations to Fyne Ales!
We are always pleased to see one of the breweries we help set up doing well, and even better when it’s with one of the beers we helped create. It might have been 20 years ago but a good clear beer, well brewed, will always shine through the haze.
Ramsbury Brewery introduces Ramsbury Gold Fudge
SIBA NORTH EAST KEG COMPETITION!
Well done to Wold Top for claiming first and second place overall in the keg competition! Wold Top Brewery Overall SIBA NE Keg Champion Wold Top Brewery-Gold Headland Red Ale 4.3% Alc Wold Top Brewery-Silver Landmark Lager 4.2% Alc And a few more to add to the tally: Wold Top Brewery-Silver: Sun Drench Pale […]
Karl Stevens, Hwgga Brew
How my entry into the SIBA survey prize draw led to a subsidised place on an excellent training course
There will always be a place for well brewed traditional beer styles
Just to show the older recipes can still produce award winning beers now as they have for many years; following on from Acorn’s Barnsley Bitter winning Gold and becoming SIBA Champion beer of the North East, we now have Cairngorm Brewery’s Black Gold sweet stout becoming the overall Champion Beer of Scotland. More recently we […]
Lune Brew Co chooses our New Brewery Start-Up Package
Lune Brew Co. enlisted our ‘New Brewery Start-Up Package’ part of which, involved stripping and relocating a 20 BBL Moeschle kit in West Sussex to Lancashire for re-location at the Silk Mill in Galgate. We hope to be doing the first commissioning brews in the next few weeks with the new brewing team at Lune […]
Acorn Barnsley Bitter: Champion Beer of Yorkshire 2023
Congratulations to Acorn Brewery on a well-deserved first place.
Peaceful co-existence on the bar, a new age of choice for the drinker and a dose of commercial reality for brewers.
For anyone reading the wider press and brewing periodicals of late it may not be immediately apparent that we have witnessed a complete sea change in respect to the selection of styles of beer available on the bar. Recent press articles might suggest cask is doomed whilst others seem to suggest a revival of […]
Another Successful Brewing Course!
Brewing – The Fundamentals November 2022 The end of another successful and very enjoyable brewing course in York with some very appreciative (if weary), attendees just about to head home. We had some very nice comments at the end of the course: ‘The theory was well explained and backs up the brewing process’ ‘Fawcett’s was […]
A grand day out at the SIBA Indie Beer competition in Edinburgh 2022
We’ve always enjoyed going to the SIBA Regional Beer competitions as it’s a great way of meeting brewers, other suppliers and having a bit of fun, and the SIBA Indie Beer Competition was no exception. We don’t often get involved with judging at beer competitions, preferring to stay in the background, helping out and chatting […]
Congratulations to Coniston Brewery!
Coniston No.9: the World’s best barleywine. It’s always good when we see one of our breweries do well in a competition, and even better when we’ve had a hand in creating the recipe. So to have one of our beers crowned best in the world in its category is a definite feather in the […]
Congratulations to Old Farmhouse Brewery
Brewing Services congratulates client Old Farmhouse Brewery. See the details here: Old Farmhouse Brewery (@StDavidsBrewery) tweeted at 9:09 am on Sat, May 14, 2022: Oh wow!! Thank you @Food_DrinkWales for our highly commended award, for best start-up business. Out of over 250 business nominations in 13 categories, we are super proud to have been shortlisted […]
A Busy Start to 2022
We are seeing a gradual return to normality after the doldrums of 2020 and 2021, and the outlook is looking much brighter for the small brewer. There is certainly a much more positive buzz around the industry at present and demonstrated by the attendance of brewers at SIBA BeerX this year. Things in […]
It’s Good to be back!
November 2021 Now re-named ‘Brewing – The Fundamentals’ we ran the first of our new, updated, brewing course face to face for the first time in two years. Although we have been restricted to Zoom only teaching for the last two years, it has allowed us […]
The Fundamentals of Mini-Brewing kicks off at Treboom Brewery
We’ve really missed being able to run the Fundamentals course in person (Zoom is never quite the same). So It’s really great to be back running the course in person again, and able to get out and about to visit breweries like Treboom to get some hands on experience. Lectures continue this week with visits planned […]
Why Consistency is Critical
In this Brewers Journal podcast Rob Smith talks extensively about why quality and consistency should be at the top of every brewer’s agenda.
Drop Bear Beer Wins the European Beer Challenge 2021!
Brewing Services Ltd having working with Drop Bear for the last twelve months, developing the double gold award-winning New World Lager recipe, as well as reformulating their Yuzu, Tropical and Bonfire Stout recipes. So fingers crossed that they are are all double gold winners, or perhaps even platinum, in next year’s awards. More here: http://https://www.linkedin.com/posts/sarah-mcnena-aa2ab0166_bringing-the-awards-home-european-beer-challenge-activity-6816681121607122944-zHz6 […]
Bier Edinburgh Brewery at the Keller Bar
Our latest start-up project is Bier Edinburgh, which is now finally underway, after a bit of a delay, thanks to covid. The Keller forms part of a complex of buildings just off Picardy Place in Edinburgh, with the Bier Edinburgh Brewery situated in a specially designed brewing area just off the main bar and […]
