The golden pints awards... the brainchild of Mark Dredge and Andy Mogg ... All very good stuff but I am going slightly off piste with my questions.
Start off with the Sub 4% beers
Least Boring Brown Beer - Brewdog, Dead Pony Club
Least Boring Pale Beer - The Kernel, Table beer
Least Boring Black beer - Mikkeler, Milk stout
A few awards for proper beers
Most interesting Beer - De Struisse, Black Damnation III Black Meas
Most interesting Beer in a can - Adnams, Ghost Ship
Most interesting home brewed beer - Andy Parker's Nelson Saison
Pubs and Bars
Most interesting Pub - The Grove, Huddersfield
Most interesting new London Pub - The Earl of Essex, Islington
Most interesting Brewpub (beer) - The Cock Tavern, Hackney
Most interesting Brewpub (food) - The Bull, Highgate ... Chicken wings!
Least Boring Pub Chain - The Craft Beer Co
Breweries
Most interesting brewery to drink at - Magic Rock during the Beer bloggers conference
Most interesting brewery to buy beer at - The Kernel
Best place to work - The Anthill
Festivals
Most interesting Festival To Drink At: Borefts Festival at De Molen.
Least Boring CAMRA Festival - Pigs Ear Festival in Hackney (every beer either very good or very very bad)
Events
Most interesting Beer event - Beer Bloggers Conference, Leeds
Most interesting Brewery Launch - By the Numbers at the Craft Beer Co
The Bad
Most over hyped on twitter beer event - Zanwze Launch at the Earl of Essex, I feel sorry for those interested who did not turn up for fear of queues out the door. Good event though.
Most over hyped beer - Just about any limited release from Brewdog
Worst beer - Joint award - Brewdog and Flying Dog, International Arms race.
Need a New Mortgage Award - The Craft Beer Co. I still find myself going there regularly though.
Fastest Drain-pour - My batch of decadence stout that made a mess of many a kitchen as I bottled it too early. Only a drain pour of you were lucky enough to open over a sink. The keg tasted great though. ;-)
Thanks Gregg - will send some Saison your way when I re-brew it.
ReplyDeleteAn interesting take on the awards and some great calls here. Hope to visit the cock tavern more next year, definitely.
Yummm Cheers Andy...you won the most closely contented category in my mind....had a boat load of great homebrew this year.
ReplyDeleteI have been back to the Cock a couple of times. Excellent place to visit.
Good shout Gregg - big shout in mine going out to Dan for getting in to the industry and doing the thing he loves. Off to The Earl of Essex tomorrow for exactly the reason you mentioned, great new place. When are we gonna do the Westy event at yours. Feb time?
ReplyDeleteYes Chuffed for Dan... Not sure on the timing of the westy tasting, Andy was on the case. As long as we get a bit of notice we can do it.
ReplyDeleteExcellent information! As a fellow beer lover, you might be interested in this website that dicusses the amazing health benefits of beer. www.beerandbody.com
ReplyDeleteI accidentally discovered this blog and found to contain very good information for me
ReplyDeleteI can set up my new idea from this post. It gives in depth information. Thanks for this valuable information for all,.. Leeds beer festivals
ReplyDelete