The 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 Mark or me and we’ll post them for you. Do it anytime between now and New Year’s Eve.
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 you want; it could be bargain of the year, night out of the year, barman of the year, cooking lager of the year, best beer photo, worst beer, anything you want. If there are any categories that you don’t want to give a winner for then just skip it.
It’s a bit of fun to see out the end of 2010 with a few nominations of what’s been the best of beer from the previous year.
- Best UK Draught Beer
- Best UK Bottled Beer
- Best Overseas Draught Beer
- Best Overseas Bottled Beer
- Best Overall Beer
- Best Pumpclip or Label
- Best UK Brewery
- Best Overseas Brewery
- Pub/Bar of the Year
- Beer Festival of the Year
- Supermarket of the Year
- Independent Retailer of the Year
- Online Retailer of the Year
- Best Beer Book or Magazine
- Best Beer Blog or Website
- Best Beer Twitterer
- Best Brewery Online
- Food and Beer Pairing of the Year
- In 2011 I’d Most Like To…
- Open Category: You Choose
There you have it, get thinking!!
Oh and a big thanks to Robsterowski for the logo again!
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13: best online retailer
Mybrewerytap!! Awesome site, great beers, always got new and exciting US beers to sample and delivery is quick and effiecient. Really helpful owners and all round great beery guy!
Good work Sam, collect the beer whenever suits! 🙂
Best UK Brewery
Moor Beer
Best Overseas Brewery
Sierra Nevada.
Online Retailer of the Year
Ales by Mail. Great selection of beers, excellent mixed cases and speedy delivery. Makes beer shopping painless.
Best Beer Blog or Website
The Ormskirk Baron : theormskirkbaron.com
Responses to those I can answer from my own personal experience.
1.Best UK Draught Beer
– Marble Brewery – PINT
2.Best UK Bottled Beer
– Marble Brewery – DOBBER
4.Best Overseas Bottled Beer
– Goose Island 312 Wheat Beer
5.Best Overall Beer
– Marble DOBBER
7.Best UK Brewery
– Marble
9.Pub/Bar of the Year
– Euston Tap
11.Supermarket of the Year
– Sainsbury
13.Online Retailer of the Year
– MyBreweryTap.com
Excellent, thanks guys! i’m still trying to decide on mine, it’s been a great year and there’s still a few weeks left yet…
Best UK Draught Beer
Thornbridge Jaipur
Best UK Bottled Beer
Brewdog/Mikkeler I Hardcore You
Best Overseas Draught Beer
Best Overseas Bottled Beer
Best Overall Beer
Thornbridge Jaipur
Best Pumpclip or Label
Best UK Brewery
Brewdog
Best Overseas Brewery
Pub/Bar of the Year
Euston Tap
Beer Festival of the Year
GBBF
Supermarket of the Year
Waitrose – local beers
Independent Retailer of the Year
Bitter Virtue (Southampton)
Online Retailer of the Year
mybrewerytap.com
Best Beer Book or Magazine
Hops and Glory (I didn’t read it until 2010!)
Best Beer Blog or Website
Pete Brown’s Beer Blog
Best Beer Twitterer
BeerReviewsAndy
Best Brewery Online
Hardknott for the twitter presence (esp HardknottSooty)
Food and Beer Pairing of the Year
In 2011 I’d Most Like To…
Get to a twissup
Open Category: Most thought provoking blogger
Cooking Lager – although tongue-in-cheek it’s still thought provoking.
This is too hard!
1. Best UK Draught Beer
Marble – Summer (Honourable’s – Hawkshead – Brodie’s Extra Prime, Moor – Southern Star & JJJ IPA, Dark Star – Green Hop IPA, BrewDog/Mikeller – I Hardcore You (even though we had to get it from Denmark!)
2. Best UK Bottled Beer – The Kernel – Export London Stout (Honourable’s – Marble – Utility Special and Vuur & Vlam , Thornbridge – Kipling)
3. Best Overseas Draught Beer – Sierra Nevada Bigfoot
4. Best Overseas Bottled Beer – Mikkeller – Black (Honourable’s – Dogfish/del Borgo – My Antonia, Dogfish – Indian Brown Ale, Green Flash – Imperial IPA, anything else by Mikeller!)
5. Best Overall Beer – Marble Summer.
6. Best Pumpclip or Label – Thornbridge Halcyon/Kipling (bottled)
7. Best UK Brewery – Marble (Just! Runners – up Dark Star, Thornbridge)
8. Best Overseas Brewery – Mikkeller
9. Pub/Bar of the Year – The Grove! 😉 (But if I can’t vote for my employer… Sheffield Tap)
10. Beer Festival of the Year – North Bar (Leeds) US festival.
11. Supermarket of the Year – Sainsburys
12. Independent Retailer of the Year – Beer Ritz
13. Online Retailer of the Year – My Brewery Tap
14. Best Beer Book or Magazine – Zak Avery’s 500 beers
15. Best Beer Blog or Website – HopZine.com (honourable’s – Beer Reviews, Are you tasting the pith?, HardknottDave’s blog)
16. Best Beer Twitterer – simonhjohnson (honourable’s BGRTrob, hardknottdave, swbrewery)
17. Best Brewery Online – BrewDog (Honourable’s Thornbridge and Hardknott)
18. Food and Beer Pairing of the Year
19. In 2011 I’d Most Like To… make it to Euston Tap & Brewdog Aberdeen/Edinburgh and attend a twissup from the right side of the bar!
20. Open Category: You Choose: Best new brewery: Kernel
Best UK Draught Beer: Thornbridge/Darkstar Thornstar
Best UK Bottled Beer: Kernel Imperial Stout
Best Overseas Draught Beer: Great Divide Hercules Double IPA @eustontap
Best Overseas Bottled Beer: Mikkeller USAlive
Best Overall Beer: Ascot Anastasia Imperial Stout
Best Pumpclip or Label: Lovibonds 69 IPA
Best UK Brewery: Brewdog
Best Overseas Brewery: Sierra Nevada
Pub/Bar of the Year: Cask, Pimlico SW1
Beer Festival of the Year: GBBF
Supermarket of the Year: Waitrose (for supporting local breweries)
Independent Retailer of the Year: Bacchanalia
Online Retailer of the Year: beermerchants.com
Best Beer Book or Magazine: 100 Belgian Beers to try before you die (43 to go!)
Best Beer Blog or Website: ratebeer.com
Best Beer Twitterer: @beerreviewsandy
Best Brewery Online: Brewdog
Food and Beer Pairing of the Year: Beef and Hogs Back TEA stew 😀
In 2011 I’d Most Like To…: Start blogging 🙂
Open Category: You Choose: Best new pub/bar of the year – Euston Tap
Independent Retailer of the Year: The Wineyard, Morecambe
Independent Retailer of the Year: The Wineyard, Morecambe
1. Best UK Draught Beer – Ilkley Brewery – Mary Jane (most drunk this year – best in Leeds)
2. Best UK Bottled Beer – Brewdog – Hardcore
3. Best Overseas Draught Beer – Odell – IPA
4. Best Overseas Bottled Beer – BdB/DFH – My Antonia
5. Best Overall Beer – BdB/DFH – My Antonia
6. Best Pumpclip or Label – I think the Summer Wine Brewery have the most iconic/identifiable range of pumpclips
7. Best UK Brewery – Thornrbridge in an overall draught/bottled range (harder to track their draught down in Leeds though)
8. Best Overseas Brewery – Birra del Borgo
9. Pub/Bar of the Year – Sheffield Tap
10. Beer Festival of the Year – Horsforth (intimate and a lot of non-ale drinking friends go)
11. Supermarket of the Year – Waitrose (great range)
12. Independent Retailer of the Year – Beer Ritz, Leeds
13. Online Retailer of the Year – http://www.mybrewerytap.com
14. Best Beer Book or Magazine – N/a
15. Best Beer Blog or Website – Present company accepted 😉 – Are you tasting the pith?
16. Best Beer Twitterer – @crownbrewerstu
17. Best Brewery Online – N/a
18. Food and Beer Pairing of the Year – Orval and Cheese in good company
19. In 2011 I’d Most Like To… – drink more with the people i know on twitter
20. Open Category: You Choose – Via Collina Falanghina (white wine, Waitrose)
Hmmm… Looks like my pingback didn’t work. Here’s a link to my votes -> http://beer.bobarnott.com/2010/12/31/the-golden-pints-2010/
Nice one chris!!
bob, not sure why the ping didn’t work so thanks for the link! some great beers in there!!