ALCESTER'S Purity Brewing Company is celebrating another brace of regional business awards.

The brewery, based on Spernal Lane, in Great Alne, scooped Best Business under 50 Employees at the Small Medium Enterprise Coventry and Warwickshire Business Awards.

The craft brewers also picked up the runners up award in the Green category, in recognition of its efforts to recycle waste and minimise energy consumption in the brewing process.

Managing director Paul Halsey said: “Whilst we pride ourselves on the quality of our beers and our eco-friendly values, we’re also proud to be a local employer and an active part of the community.

"These awards celebrate regional business and with so many fantastic companies out there thriving, it’s great to be recognised in this way. Cheers.”

The awards celebrate industrious, hardworking and enterprising businesses in the county.