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The Champion Beer of Wales is a beer award presented annually by the Campaign for Real Ale at the Great Welsh Beer & Cider Festival in Cardiff, Wales.
The award is selected by a multi-tier system. First, individual branches of CAMRA nominate beers that have been in regular, non-seasonal production for at least one year from Welsh breweries in a series of CAMRA-defined categories. The most commonly nominated beers in each category are then presented to tasting panels, with one panel consisting of four to six people tasting each beer in a particular style in a blind tasting. These tasting panels are selected from CAMRA members and other individuals, including members of the brewing industry (although representatives of nominated beers' breweries are excluded). The winners in each of these categories are then presented to a new panel consisting of local celebrities, politicians, and brewers, who, again blind tasting, selects an overall champion, silver medalist, and bronze medalist. Awards are given for the top beer in each category and the three overall top places.
Current & Previous winners are summarized[1][2][3][4][5]:
Year Gold Silver Bronze 1996 Plassey Brewery Dragon’s Breath 1997 Plassey Brewery Dragon’s Breath Bullmastiff Tomos Watkin OSB 1998 Flannery’s Oatmeal Stout 1999 Bullmastiff Gold Tomos Watkin Old Style Bitter Pembroke Brewery Old Nobbie Stout 2000 Bullmastiff Gold Warcop Pit Prop Plassey Brewery Dragon’s Breath 2001 Tomos Watkin Merlin's Stout Brains Dark Swansea Brewery Original Wood 2002 Bryncelyn Brewery Buddy Marvelous Bullmastiff Gold Brains Dark 2003 Bryncelyn Brewery Oh Boy Tomos Watkin Merlin Stout Bryncelyn Brewery Buddy Marvelous 2004 Breconshire Brewery Golden Valley Bullmastiff Bryncelyn Brewery Buddy Marvelous 2005 Bullmastiff Tomos Watkin Merlin Stout Bryncelyn Brewery Oh Boy 2006 Otley O8 Brains Dark Otley OG 2007 Rhymney Dark Bryncelyn Brewery Holly Hop Bryncelyn Brewery Buddy Marvelous 2008 Otley O8 Brains Gold Brains Dark References
- ^ "Buddy Holly pub wins beer award". BBC News. 2005-09-14. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/wales/4245622.stm. Retrieved 2007-01-28.
- ^ "Bryncelyn Brewery our selection of beers". http://bryncelynbrewery.org.uk/products.htm. Retrieved 2007-01-28.
- ^ "Champion Beer of Wales Winners". http://www.camra.org.uk/page.aspx?o=181286. Retrieved 2007-01-28.
- ^ Neil Warnock. "Great Welsh Beer and Cider Festival". Archived from the original on 2006-12-13. http://web.archive.org/web/20061213185216/http://www.neilwarnock.f2s.com/gwbcf/drinks.htm. Retrieved 2007-01-28.
- ^ UK real ale and real beer Welsh ales
External links
Categories:- Beer awards
- Beer and breweries in Wales
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