Any brewery that chooses to go into business on the cheap, by using casks belonging to other breweries is harming the wellbeing of honest businesses that have invested in expensive casks and are denied their use.
Size is no excuse.
Some cask thieves justfiy their actions by only stealing casks belonging to national brewers, and try to fool themselves that this somehow mitigates their activity. However, the size of the brewery from whom you steal the cask does not affect the size of the brewery against whom you are trading unfirly in the open market. For this reason SIBA will take action against ANY brewer, of whatever size, whether they are SIBA members or not, should evidence come to our attention of cask misuse. SIBA will, and has, expelled any member found guilty of deliberate cask misuse. SIBA are always keen to encourage publicans and beer festival organisers to ensure that beer they order arrives in casks belonging to the brewery owning the cask.