The Birmingham brewery with the best beer in the Midlands

A pub and brewery in Birmingham has been voted as having the best keg beer in the Midlands.

Attic Brew Co. which is located in Stirchley, Birmingham, took the overall Gold award in SIBA’s Midlands Independent Beer Awards for Keg beer, meaning it has the best beer in the region.

The awards are run by the Society of Independent Brewers (SIBA) and are hosted by the Rail Ale Festival at the Roundhouse, near Chesterfield. The competition sees a huge range of beer styles judged across cask and keg format, from traditional bitters, stouts and porters, to New England IPAs, lagers, speciality and sour beers.

The big award was the Overall Champion Keg Beer, which went to Attic Brew Co.’s ‘Signals’ IPA, which impressed with big citrus and strone fruit flavours of grapefruit, apricot and blackcurrant.

After being crowned winners, Attic Brew Co.’s Business Development Executive John Nowacki, said: “It’s amazing to win the award, we think we’re brewing some really good beers but it’s nice to have that backup to know that we’re on the right track. We brew really hop-forward but really drinkable beers, with loads of body and not too much bitterness so you can enjoy a few different beers.”

SIBA Chief Executive Andy Slee was on hand to dish out the top awards in the Midlands, he said: “Huge congratulations to all of this year’s winners and in particular our Overall Champions who not not only won their style categories but went on to be named the best of the best in what was an extremely hard fought final round judging.

“The quality of beers in the competition was superb and I want to say a huge thank you to the Rail Ale festival for being such fantastic hosts and for ensuring all of the beer was served in such superb condition.”