1) Best UK Draught (Cask Or Keg) Beer: Good grief, difficult indeed. India Pale Ale Scanners Brodie’s/Kernel Collaboration really blew me away. Runners up: RockStar (DarkStar/Magic Rock collaboration (both keg and cask were absolutely delicious and I simply want more of this beer), Sour Grapes (Lovibonds), such a wonderfully balanced sour beer. Jeff’s a wizard. [...]
View Post Beer Awards, Golden PintsThe previous years Golden Pint Awards have been a great success so here we go again for the 4th Year. Feel free to do a runner-up and a winner for each category (or some honourable mentions) and link to blog posts if you’ve written about winners before. For the open category you can choose whatever [...]
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I’ve left it until the last minute to do these, mainly because I couldn’t make my mind up. Best UK Draught (Cask or Keg) Beer Hawkshead NZ Pale Ale – Truly delicious and stupidly drinkable. Second place goes to Summer Wine Nettle and Ginger Saison and Third goes to Hill Island ThaIPA. Best UK Bottled or [...]
View Post Beer Awards, Golden PintsThe 2009 and 2010 Golden Pint awards we’re a laugh and seemed to go down well so here’s this years list. It couldn’t be simpler, just fill in your answers to the categories below. You can do this in the comments on someone’s blog post, write them in your own blog or email them to [...]
View Post Beer Awards, best beer, Golden PintsIt’s been a brilliant year for all things beer related so this has been really hard choosing, some of them may change over the next couple of days too as I’ve got some special bottles lined up and I know a couple of local pubs are getting some great beer in too. Best UK Draught [...]
View Post Beer bloggers, Beer festivals, bottled beer, cask beer, draught beer, Golden PintsThe 2009 Golden Pint Awards were a success so we have decided we’d have some fun with them again this year. It couldn’t be simpler, just fill in your answers to the categories below. You can do this in the comments on someone’s blog post, write them in your own blog or email them to [...]
View Post beer blogger awards, blogger awards, Golden PintsLast week together with Mark’s Dredge (from pencil and spoon) and Fletcher (from real ale reviews) we launched the Golden Pint Awards (not the new jazzy logo thanks to robsterowski) so I thought it was about time I filled in the categories my self, It’s taken me ages to decide on some of the categories [...]
View Post american beer, beer blogger awards, english ale, Golden Pints, real aleThe year is almost over and there becomes an inevitable point in which we take a look over our shoulders and evaluate how the past 12 months has been, before looking forward to the next. As Beer Swap rolls on (there’s no hurry, just drink and be happy), Mark’s Dredge (from pencil and spoon) and [...]
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