For sheer simplicity im gonna go with last years format.
So for each catagory im going to give this years answer and my Overall choice in brackets, noting if this has changed.
Best UK draught (Cask or Keg) beer:
Winner: Magic Rock Bourbon Barrel Bearded Lady (Highland Orkney Porter)
Runner Up: joint Thornbridge Bracia (Pedro Ximénez Aged) (Magic Rock Bourbon Barrel Bearded Lady NEW)
Best UK bottle or canned beer
Joint Winner: Tempest Double Cresta Stout and Buxton Imperial Black IPA (Old Chimneys Good King Henry Special Reserve)
Runner Up: (Old Chimneys Good King Henry )
Best Overseas bottle or canned beer
Winner: Cigar City Campeador - Greaves (Three Floyds Dark Lord Russian Imperial Stout )
Runner Up: Evil Twin Even More Jesus (Struise Pannepot)
Best Overseas Draught beer
Winner: Fanø Chocolate Lava (Mikkeller X Imperial Stout Calvados Barrel Aged)
Runner Up: De Molen Bommen & Granaten Cascade BA (De Molen Hel & Verdoemenis 666)
Best Overall beer
Winner: Fanø Chocolate Lava (Old Chimneys Good King Henry Special Reserve)
Runner Up: Magic Rock Bourbon Barrel Bearded Lady (Three Floyds Dark Lord Russian Imperial Stout )
Best UK brewery (based on new beers this year)
Winner: Highland (Hawkshead)
Runner Up: MagicRock (Tempest)
Best Overseas Brewery (based on new beers this year)
Winner: De Struise ( Cigar City)
Runner Up: Cigar City (Fano)
Pub/Bar of the Year
Winner: Cloisters (Edinburgh)
Runner Up: Hawkshead Brewery tap
Beer Festival of the Year
Winner: De Molen
Joint Runner Up: Brodies Bunny Bash and Egham
Supermarket of the Year
Winner :Waitrose
Runner Up: Booths
Best beer twitterer
Winner: Simon Johnson
In 2013 I'd most like to find time to Brew at Brodies (sadly chances are low)
Oddly once again i see a theme. Theyre mostly all Black and theyre all big beers, who would have guessed that :-)
So like last year i will follow this up with a Golden Half pints of the lower abv beers
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