Beer of the Year Awards
BEER OF THE YEAR WINNERS…
2009: Winner: Hop Back Brewery’s Summer Lightning; second place, Black Sheep Brewery’s Best Bitter, and third, Everards Tiger.
Brewer of the Year: Elgood & Sons.
2008 – Bateman’s XXXB, Thornbridge Brewery’s Jaipur IPA, Acorn Brewery’s Barnsley Bitter.
Brewer of the Year: Purity Brewing Company.
2007 – Thornbridge Brewery’s Jaipur India Pale Ale, Summer Lightning from Hop Back Brewery.
Brewer of the Year: Bateman’s.
2006- Fuller’s London Pride, Hop Back Summer Lightning, Everards Tiger.
Brewer of the Year: Everards
2005 – Hop Back Brewery Summer Lightning, Abbeydale Absolution, Theakston Old Peculier.
Brewer of the Year: Fuller’s
2004 – Kelham Island Pale Rider, Batemans XXB, Oakham JHB.
Brewer of the Year: Adnams
2003 – Caledonian Deuchars IPA, Oakham JHB, Archers Golden.
Brewer of the Year: Abbeydale
2002 – Oakham Ales JHB, Caledonian Deuchars IPA, Everards Tiger
Brewer of the Year: Adnams
2001 – Caledonian Deuchars IPA, Adnams Broadside, Bateman’s XB
2000 – Caledonian Deuchars IPA, Exmoor Ales Exmoor Gold, Whim Ales Hartington Bitter
1999 – Timothy Taylor’s Landlord, Archers Golden Bitter, Hop Back Summer Lightning
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Nottingham Wild Night
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