Beer Street, a 4% ABV amber bitter with rye from London Brewing Co, has won CAMRA’s Champion Winter Beer of Britain award.
The award was announced at Liverpool Beer Festival yesterday, which continues today and tomorrow in the Crypt of the Metropolitan Cathedral.
Cairgorm Brewery’s session stout, Black Gold (4.4% BV), took home silver, and Green Jack’s Baltic Trader Export Stout (10.5%) won bronze.
The category winners now go forward to the final judging in May at CAMRA’s Cambridge Beer Festival, where they’ll battle it out to take the crown of supreme champion 2026.
Judging panel co-ordinator, Christine Cryne, described Beer Street as a “sparking golden amber bitter, with spicy rye and a roasty nose, sweet biscuit on the flavour, where the spicy rye notes increase and linger in the dry and slightly bitter finish. Very easy drinking.”
“Our Champion Beer of Britain competition is the only truly independent beer contest in the UK,” said CAMRA’s awards director, Shelly Bentley. “Brewers can’t simply enter their beers into it; they have to be nominated by beer lovers or expert tasting panels.
“London Brewing are incredibly deserving winners of the winter crown, and everyone taking home a category win or top three placement should be proud that their beers have been declared the cream of the crop by expert judges.”
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