07/08/2007

Two Scottish brewers scooped awards at the Great Briitish Beer Festival today.

The Inveralmond Brewery in Perth was awarded a silver in the Strong Bitter category for its Lia Fail and the Fyne Brewery in Argyll got joint bronze in the Best Bitters section for its Piper's Gold.

Hobsons Mild from Hobsons Brewery in Shropshire was judged to be the best beer in Britain by a panel of brewers, beer writers and journalists at the Great British Beer Festival at Earls Court.
 
The Shropshire brewed beer was chosen as the overall winner from over fifty finalists in eight categories including beers from tiny micros to major regional brewers.

The award winners in full:

Milds
Gold:                 Hobsons Mild (Cleobory Mortimer, Shropshire)
Silver:               Nottingham Rock Mild (Radford, Nottingham)
Bronze:             Brains Dark (Cardiff)
 
Bitters
Gold:                 Castle Rock Harvest Pale (Nottingham)
Silver:                Twickenham Crane Sundancer (Twickenham, Middlesex)
Joint Bronze:       Surrey Hills Ranmore Ale (Gilford, Surrey)
Joint Bronze:      Fyne Piper's Gold (Cairndow, Argyll)
 
Best Bitters
Gold:                 Purple Moose Glaslyn Ale (Porthmadog, Gwynedd)
Silver:               George Wright Pipe Dream (Rainford, Merseyside)
Joint Bronze:     Fuller's London Pride (London W4)
Joint Bronze:     Nethergate Suffolk County (Sudbury, Suffolk)
Joint Bronze:    Station House Buzzin' (Ellesmere Port, Cheshire)
 
Strong Bitters
Gold:                 York Centurion's Ghost (North Yorks)
Silver:                Inveralmond Lia Fail (Inveralmond, Perth)
Bronze:             Brains SA Gold (Cardiff)
 
Speciality Beers
Gold:                 Nethergate Umbel Magna, (Sudbury, Suffolk)
Silver:               Little Valley Hebden Wheat, (Hendon, West Yorks)
Bronze:             St Peter's Grapefruit, (Bungay, Suffolk)
 
Golden Ales
Gold:                Mighty Oak Maldon Gold (Maldon, Essex)
Silver:               Oak Leaf Hole Hearted (Gosport, Hampshire)
Bronze:             Otley 01 (Pontypridd, Mid Glamorgan)