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Bottle & Can Beer Awards 2022

Bottle & Can Non Alcoholic & Low ABV

B BRONZE: Firebrand Brewing

Shorebreak AF Hazy Pale 0.5%

Bottle & Can Lager

G GOLD: Powderkeg Beer

Harmony helles 4.2%

S SILVER: Kettlesmith Brewing Company

Mission Bay 4.5%

B BRONZE: Cheddar Ales

Lisa Likes Nelson 5%

B BRONZE: Ramsbury Brewery

Red Ram 4.5%

B BRONZE: Keltek Cornish Brewery

Swifties Lager 4%

B BRONZE: St Austell Brewery korev 4.8%

Bottle & Can Amber to Dark Lager

G GOLD: Utopian Brewing

Cerne Specialni 5.9%

Bottle & Can Bitter

G GOLD: Ramsbury Brewery

Farmer's Best 3.6%

S SILVER: Abbey Ales Bath Best Bitter 4%

B BRONZE: PALMERS BREWERY

Palmers 200 5%

B BRONZE: Otter Brewery Otter Head 5.8%

B BRONZE: Salcombe Brewery Co.

Devon Amber 3.8%

Bottle & Can Pale Ale

G GOLD: St Austell Brewery

Tribute 4.2%

S SILVER: Quantock Brewery

Theatrical Skies 4.8%

B BRONZE: PALMERS BREWERY

Dorset Gold 4.5%

B BRONZE: Eight Arch Brewing Co.

Square Logic 4.2%

B BRONZE: Zerodegrees Bristol

Downtown 4.6%

B BRONZE: Arkell's Brewery

Voyager American Pale Ale 5%

Bottle & Can IPA

G GOLD: Quantock Brewery

We're Gonna Need a Bigger Boat 6.3%

S SILVER: Hop Kettle Brewery

Supernova: Citra CRYO 5.6%

Bottle & Can Double & Triple IPA

B BRONZE: Brewhouse & Kitchen

Staycation 8%

Bottle & Can Speciality IPA

B BRONZE: Hop Kettle Brewery

Cosmic Shake 4.4%

Bottle & Can Amber, Brown & Red Ale

G GOLD – BEST IN CATEGORY:

Powderkeg Beer 6ixes & 7evens 5%

G GOLD: Driftwood Spars Brewery

Alfie's Revenge 6.5%

S SILVER: Arkell's Brewery

Kingsdown 4.8%

S SILVER: Southbourne Ales

Sunbather 4%

B BRONZE: Otter Brewery Otter Ale 4.5%

Bottle & Can Stout & Porter

G GOLD: New Bristol Brewery

Coffee and Biscotti Stout 5%

S SILVER: Driftwood Spars Brewery

Midnight Skinny Dipper 6%

B BRONZE: PALMERS BREWERY

TALLY HO! 5.5%

B BRONZE: Eight Arch Brewing Co.

Quarterjack 4.8%

Bottle & Can Imperial & Strong Ale

G GOLD – BEST IN CATEGORY: Padstow Brewing Co.

Cold Desert 8%

G GOLD: Exmoor Ales

Exmoor Beast 6.6%

Bottle & Can Sour & Wild Ale

G GOLD: Firebrand Brewing

Pink Lemonade 6%

B BRONZE: Padstow Brewing Co.

Like Nan Used to Make 4.7%

Bottle & Can Belgian, French & Abbey Ale

G GOLD: Castle Brewery

A New Season 5.5%

Bottle & Can Speciality & Flavoured Beer

G GOLD: Driftwood Spars Brewery

Codename Robin 7%

71 Brewing wins four Gold awards at the Scottish Beer Awards 2022

Independent brewery 71 Brewing, which was established in Dundee in 2016, won a Gold in four award categories at the 2022 Scottish Beer Awards, for Cloud Fall in the Best Pale Ale category, Haze Halo in the Best Juicy or Hazy beer category, Heavy Lifting 80 in the Best British Style category and Blackcurrant Apple Crumble in the Best Fruited Sour Beer category

The Scottish Beer Awards were founded in 2016 and aim to recognise the best breweries and beers in Scotland. Using 48 expert tasters, who participated in a wide-ranging blind tasting competition, a Gold medal is awarded to those who are rated highest in quality, appearance and flavour, without judges having any information on brewers, branding or labels.

Two of the award-winning beers are part of the brewery’s core line-up, Cloud Fall and Haze Halo. At 4.5% and 5% ABV, both are available in 440ml cans, and are distributed through wholesalers Brakes, Filshill and Williamson. Heavy Lifting, re-released in December, is a special and Blackcurrant Apple Crumble is part of the Fruition Seasonal Sours summer range, also available in 440ml can.

71 Brewing has gone from strength to strength since being founded by entrepreneur Duncan Alexander in 2016 and has firmly claimed its position as Dundee’s first active brewery for more than half a decade.

Duncan Alexander said: “We’re delighted to win four Gold awards at the Scottish Beer Awards. It’s a real recognition of the quality of our beers by expert tasters at the highest level. It’s a testament too, to our incredibly talented brewing team for creating beers which meet the highest standards in quality, appearance, and flavour.”

For more information visit www.71brewing.com

Salcombe Brewery announces new listing with Tesco

Wild Horse Brewing Co, based in Llandudno, North Wales, released a brand-new beer to celebrate Cymru's World Cup '22 campaign, their first since 1958.

The beer was called Pêl Êl and is a zesty, refreshing 4.8% ABV pale ale brewed with Simcoe, Idaho 7 and Chinook hops, bringing bright tropical fruit notes, a piney undercurrent and just the right amount of bitterness.

Chris Holyfield, Wild Horse’s Head of Sales, said: “We are a proudly Welsh brewery and we’re unbelievably excited about Cymru’s involvement in the football World Cup. Like many other fans, I wasn’t sure I’d ever see this day so we just had to brew a beer to celebrate the occasion and enjoy on match day. We’ve gone for a playful name in Pêl Êl, which is how a Welsh speaker in our area might say ‘Pale Ale’. Pêl also being the Welsh word for ball. On the can label we have tweaked the team motto to read ‘Gorau Yfed Cyd Yfed’ which taps into the Together Stronger message.” Wild Horse Brewing Co was established in 2015 with the goal of brewing modern flavoursome beer that North Wales could be proud of. It now has annual production of over 185,000 litres (325,000 pints) with a strong focus on the North Wales market. The majority of beer is sold to hospitality businesses within the region, as well as through their brewery retail shop and website. Earlier this year it completed a £175,000 expansion project increasing capacity by 40% and installing a fully automated canning and labelling line.

Find out more at www.wildhorsebrewing.co.uk

Salcombe Brewery Co. has announced that it has secured an agreement with Tesco to sell its golden ale, Shingle Bay, and its amber ale, Seahorse, at stores across the South West.

Jordan Mace, Salcombe Brewery’s Managing Director, said: “Getting Shingle Bay on the shelves of Tesco stores in the South West is an amazing highlight in what has already been a hugely successful year for Salcombe Brewery.

“Shingle Bay is our best-selling bottled beer and one that holds a special place in all our hearts. It is because John Tiner, the founder of Salcombe Brewery, loved Shingle Bay so much that he set up the brewery in the first place. He was told by a local landlord that they were probably going to have to stop stocking Shingle Bay because the brewery that made it, Quercus, was having problems.

“Having no experience of the brewing industry, he went over to visit Quercus and ended up offering to buy the brewery so that he and all the other Shingle Bay fans could carry on drinking it.

“Seahorse is also very important to us at Salcombe Brewery Co. because the Salcombe estuary is a haven for both British species of seahorse and as part of our commitment to our local environment we are trying to help conserve these amazing animals by donating 5p a bottle towards The Seahorse Trust.”

Award-winning, SALSA accredited Salcombe Brewery’s vision is to be recognised as a leader in producing high quality products crafted using sustainable methods that look after people and the planet. They have just started their journey to becoming a B-Corp accredited company. For more information go to www.salcombebrewery.com