Saturday, December 7, 2013

Golden Pints 2013

  1. Best UK Cask Beer- OakHam Green Devil
  2. Best UK Keg Beer- Magic Rock Cannonball
  3. Best UK Bottled or Canned Beer- Buxton Axe Edge
  4. Best collaboration brew- Brewdog/Oscar Blues Shipwreck Circus
  5. Best Overseas Bottled or Canned Beer- Dogfish Head 120
  6. Best Overall Beer-Their can be only one: CANNONBALL
  7. Best Branding, Pumpclip or Label- I really like Buxton Brewerys New Look, simple yet bold and effective 
  8. Best UK Brewery- Hard to beat those guys at MagicRock
  9. Best Overseas Brewery-Impressed with Sierra Nevada even though not many specials came through this year.
  10. Best New Brewery Opening 2013-Weird Beard pretty amazing things coming from them!
  11. Pub/Bar of the Year-North Bar
  12. Best New Pub/Bar Opening 2013-Im going with 2 bars that I havent been to but I know are great The Buxton Taps and Red Willows' Bar, 
  13. Best city for beer in the UK-  Its really hard to beat Leeds,
  14. Beer Festival of the Year-  Leeds International Beer Festival
  15. Supermarket of the Year-Waitrose
  16. Independent Retailer of the Year- BeerRitz
  17. Online Retailer of the Year-Beers of Europe
  18. Best Beer Book or Magazine- Didnt Read any
  19. Best Beer Blog or Website- Generally its Leigh over at the good stuff but Im going to give it to NateDawg!
  20. Best Beer App-Hate to say it but Untppd but I just found Beer Hunt which is quite lovely.
  21. Simon Johnson Award for Best Beer Twitterer- It can really only go to one person RIP SCOOP!!!!!!!!!
  22. Best Brewery Website/Social media-Magic Rock those guys can do no wrong really!