The 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 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 (Cask or Keg) Beer
- Best UK Bottled or Canned Beer
- Best Overseas Draught Beer
- Best Overseas Bottled or Canned 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 Online Brewery presence
- Food and Beer Pairing of the Year
- In 2012 I’d Most Like To…
- Open Category: You Choose
There you have it, get thinking!!
Big thanks to Robsterowski for doing the logo again.
Only a few left days to fulfill category 19…
OOOOOPS, will have to change that now ;op
Awesome, can’t wait to see the winners. I’ve added my entries here – http://ohbeeryme.tumblr.com/post/13831581992/golden-pint-awards Cheers
this potentially nullifies two of my planned posts! I can probably integrate it though, there’s more categories than I’d thought of!
Well I’ve had a go, kept me busy for a while! Looking forward to reading some of these, should be fun.
Obviously the link might help too (yes, I am indeed an idiot).
http://beeradvice.blogspot.com/2011/12/golden-pint-awards-2011.html
Can I post my nominations here?
Yeah sure!!
Best UK Draught (Cask or Keg) Beer – Salopian Kashmir
Best UK Bottled or Canned Beer – Kernel IPA Citra
Best Overseas Draught Beer – Mikkeller Single Hop Series Bravo
Best Overseas Bottled or Canned Beer – Coronado Islander IPA
Best Overall Beer – Kernel IPA Citra
Best Pumpclip or Label – Any Moor beer
Best UK Brewery – Kernel
Best Overseas Brewery – Great Divide
Pub/Bar of the Year – Cask Pub and Kitchen
Beer Festival of the Year – GBBF
Supermarket of the Year – Sainsbury’s
Independent Retailer of the Year – Stirchley Wines and Spirits
Online Retailer of the Year – Beers of Europe
Best Beer Book or Magazine – Des de Moor’s London Pubs
Best Beer Blog or Website – Ratebeer
Best Beer Twitterer – Simon Johnson
Best Online Brewery presence – Oakham maybe
Food and Beer Pairing of the Year – Kernel Porter and stilton
In 2012 I’d Most Like To… more pub crawls in London please
Open Category: You Choose – errr
I’m looking forward to seeing some of these. I think we all know which beer/brewery names will keep cropping up.
My answers are here http://aleandstuff.blogspot.com/2011/12/golden-pints-beer-awards-2011.html
Ok, here are mine –
Best UK Draught (Cask or Keg) Beer – Moor Illusion
Best UK Bottled or Canned Beer – Bristol Beer Factory Southville Hop
Best Overseas Draught Beer – Galway Hooker
Best Overseas Bottled or Canned Beer – Great Divide Belgica
Best Overall Beer – Southville Hop – hon mention, too many to mention.
Best Pumpclip or Label – Hardknott Code Black
Best UK Brewery – Bristol Beer Factory
Best Overseas Brewery – Great Divide
Pub/Bar of the Year – Colston Yard, Bristol, Hon mention – Mr Foleys Leeds
Beer Festival of the Year – The Wellington Beer Festival, Bristol
Supermarket of the Year – Waitrose
Independent Retailer of the Year – Favourite Beers, Cheltenham
Online Retailer of the Year – Ales by Mail
Best Beer Book or Magazine – Beer Magazine (CAMRA)
Best Beer Blog or Website – Boak and Bailey, Tandleman
Best Beer Twitterer – nickiquote
Best Online Brewery presence – Butcombe Brewery
Food and Beer Pairing of the Year
In 2012 I’d Most Like To – Vist and drink a lot in Portland, Oregon
Open Category: You Choose – Best overseas bar, the Bierhaus, Cork Ireland
Here’s Ghostie’s: http://ghostdrinker.blogspot.com/2011/12/ghosties-2011-golden-pints.html
Best UK Draught (Cask or Keg) Beer – Brewdog Alice Porter, followed by Brodies Hackney Red IPA & Acorn Simcoe IPA
Best UK Bottled or Canned Beer – Hardknott Aether Blaec
Best Overseas Draught Beer – Saphir Weisse
Best Overseas Bottled or Canned Beer – Dogfish Paolo Santo Marron
Best Pumpclip or Label – Hard to look past Magic Rock on thos one.
Best UK Brewery – Acorn. Consistently excellent
Best Overseas Brewery – Dogfishhead. Wish they were still exporting to UK.
Pub/Bar of the Year – Has to be the 3 Tuns in Dronfield. Not only is Sheffield a superb real ale destination, the town next door is as well!
Beer Festival of the Year – NWAF in Machester was excellent.
Independent Retailer of the Year – The Beer Parlour in Chesterfield is the best off-licence I’ve ever been in by a country mile. Atmosphere better then most pubs!
Best Beer Blog or Website – Pencil & Spoon (Mark Dredge)
Best Beer Twitterer – @simonhjohnson
In 2012 I’d Most Like To… – Drink more stuff from Kernel!
oh go on then…
Right, I’ve finally made up my mind. http://www.davelozman.co.uk/beer/golden-pint-awards-2011/
I’ve posted mine here: http://burtonmcbride.blogspot.com/2011/12/golden-pints-2011.html Looking forward to reading everyones!
Here’s my selection, cheers
http://broadfordbrewer.wordpress.com/2011/12/09/golden-pint-awards-2011/
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Here you go Andy, thanks for this, great idea: http://wp.me/p1mN8x-Ns
http://pauljwhite.posterous.com/the-golden-pints-beer-awards-2011
Not sure why my comment has disappeared? but here goes again:
http://broadfordbrewer.wordpress.com/2011/12/09/golden-pint-awards-2011/
Here’s mine http://barlfire.blogspot.com/2011/12/golden-pints-awards-2011.html
thanks for doing this Andy, had alot of fun reminiscing over a bloody great year, cheers!
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I’ve chosen my selections…
http://mrdavidj.posterous.com/golden-pint
Best UK Draught (Cask or Keg) Beer Palmers Best Bitter
Best UK Bottled or Canned Beer Oakham Citra
Best Overseas Draught Beer Odell 90 shilling
Best Overseas Bottled or Canned Beer Orval
Best Overall Beer Orval
Best Pumpclip or Label ?
Best UK Brewery Oakham
Best Overseas Brewery Rochefort
Pub/Bar of the Year Boot Inn, Burnley
Beer Festival of the Year Wetherspoons
Supermarket of the Year Delhaize (Belgium)
Independent Retailer of the Year Rainhall Drinks, Barnoldswick
Online Retailer of the Year MyBreweryTap
Best Beer Book or Magazine GBG
Best Beer Blog or Website Ormskirk Baron
Best Beer Twitterer ???
Best Online Brewery presence Fullers
Food and Beer Pairing of the Year I’m easy to please
In 2012 I’d Most Like To… Try the Brodies at the William IV
Open Category: You Choose ?
Danny,
It’s just been pointed out to my via @broadfordbrewer about my website being your favourite!
Thank you so much for the mention, it means a lot to me that people find what I put on my website and twitter stream useful 😀
Hope you have a lovely Xmas, you have just made my day!
Here you are mate, cheers for the reminder!
http://hailsnales.blogspot.com/2011/12/golden-pints-2011.html
Best UK Draught (Cask or Keg) Beer: Magic Rock Human Cannonball, a revelation from a new brewery that’s really going places.
Best UK Bottled or Canned Beer: Kernel Saison, absolutely amazing both kegged and bottled. Brings back memories of sitting in the garden in the Summer sun.
Best Overseas Draught Beer: Russian River Blind Pig IPA, was blown away by this when visiting the brewery this year, and only $3.25 during happy hour! Pliny wasn’t bad either 🙂
Best Overseas Bottled or Canned Beer: Ballast Point Sculpin, the perfect west coast IPA. Was amazing fresh at the Brewery on keg too.
Best Overall Beer: Thornbridge Raven. I just kept going back to this and always have it when i see it.
Best Pumpclip or Label: Magic Rock have creating an appealing, modern brand which plays out well on all their pump clips although I’ll go with Human Cannonball because I love the metallic look.
Best UK Brewery: Kernel. Amazing.
Best Overseas Brewery: Stone, continues to deliver great beer and I fell in love with their Bistro/Garden Bar when visiting this year. Can’t wait to go back there.
Pub/Bar of the Year: Craft Beer Co, Leather Lane. It can get exceptionally busy but visit on a Saturday afternoon for a real treat without the chaos. Honourable mention to Brewdog Camden. May have only opened a couple of weeks ago but already a must visit when in London. Their bottled selection is impressive and reasonably priced.
Beer Festival of the Year: Only went to one sadly – GBBF.
Supermarket of the Year: Sainsbury’s.
Independent Retailer of the Year: The Bottle Shop, Canterbury. We visited in the Summer and had a great afternoon. If Carlsberg did beer shops… oh, hang on.
Online Retailer of the Year: myBreweryTap. Their amazing pick and mix list has emptied my wallet more than once!
Best Beer Book or Magazine: Melissa Cole’s Let me tell you… still sat on my coffee table two months later.
Best Beer Blog or Website: The Beer Monkey (by @rhodeshannah) is both insightful and entertaining, and also very well written.
Best Beer Twitterer: @beerymatt, funny, beery and a thoroughly nice chap to boot.
Best Online Brewery presence: Summer Wine Brewery
Food and Beer Pairing of the Year: AB:06 and Toulouse Sausages – an amazing pairing suggested by @rickfurzer
In 2012 I’d Most Like To: Start homebrewing!
Open Category: You Choose: – Most pointless debate: Cask v Keg v Bottle v Can v Wheelie Bin – I don’t care as long as the brewer is happy I’m getting their product via a dispense method which does it justice.
And mine…
http://abeeronthedowns.blogspot.com/2011/12/golden-pints-awards.html
Here’s mine: http://beerprole.wordpress.com/2011/12/28/golden-pints-2011/
Here you go, Mogger:
http://www.reluctantscooper.co.uk/2011/12/golden-pints-award-2011.html
Here’s mine:
http://pintsandpubs.wordpress.com/2011/12/31/golden-pints-awards-2011/
Here’s mine:
http://edsbeer.blogspot.com/2011/12/golden-pint-awards-2011.html
My nominations for the Golden Pints awards 2011: http://beertalk.wordpress.com/2011/12/31/golden-pints-awards-2011/
Guess I’d better post these today before I run out of year…
http://anotherdrinkingblog.wordpress.com/2011/12/31/golden-pints-2011/
My Golden Pints
http://itsbeerwhyargue.blogspot.com/2011/12/golden-pints-awards-2011.html
do you collate this into overall winners at all andy? here is mine as posted on fri http://beersiveknown.blogspot.com/2011/12/best-of-2011-one-bloggers-opinion.html
I was going to but the beer monkey kindly did it http://thebeermonkey.blogspot.com/
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