Cornwall’s St Austell Brewery has scooped its second major award of the year for its Admiral’s Ale by today winning the Champion Bottled Beer of Britain 2010 Award at Camra’s (Campaign for Real Ale’s) Great British Beer Festival (GBBF) at London’s Earl’s Court.
In the spring, the 5% alcohol by volume ale won the ale award at the Quality Drink Awards, run by Independent Retail News and Talking Retail.com.
The silver award for bottled beers at the GBBF went to Pitfield’s 1850 London Porter, with the bronze going to Great Oakley’s Delapre Dark.
Castle Rock Brewery, of Nottingham, won the overall Champion Beer of Britain 2010 Award for its Harvest Pale, while the silver award went to Timothy Taylor Landlord and Surrey Hills’ Hammer Mild.
Category winners were:
Mild category-
Gold- Surrey Hills, Hammer Mild
Silver- Greene King, XX Mild
Joint Bronze- Golcar, Dark Mild and Nottingham, Rock Ale Mild
Bitters-
Gold- RCH, PG Steam
Silver- Moor, Revival
Joint Bronze- Orkney, Raven and Purple Moose, Snowdonia Ale
Best Bitters-
Gold- Timothy Taylor, Landlord (4.3% ABV, Keighley, West Yorkshire)
Silver- St Austell, Tribute (4.2% ABV, St Austell, Cornwall)
Joint Bronze- Evan Evans, Cwrw and Great Oakley, Gobble
Golden Ales-
Gold- Castle Rock, Harvest Pale
Silver- Marble, Manchester Bitter
Bronze- St Austell, Proper Job
Strong Bitters-
Gold- Thornbridge, Jaipur IPA
Silver- Fuller’s, Gales HSB
Bronze- Beckstones, Rev Rob
Speciality Beers-
Gold- Amber, Chocolate Orange Stout
Silver- O’Hanlon’s, Port Stout
Bronze- Breconshire, Ysbrid y Ddraig
Champion Winter Beer of Britain (announced in January 2010):
Elland, 1872 Porter
Source: Camra
