Ealing Beer Festival in Walpole Park played host to CAMRA’s third Champion Beer of London competition, featuring beers from all over London, as chosen from a combination of members’ voting for the Champion Beer of Britain and recommendations from the London Tasting Panel.
The judging panels were made up of members of the tasting panel plus specially invited beer writers, brewers and publicans who sipped and smelled their way through 26 cask ales. The bias this year was towards the dark, with Five Points Railway Porter taking gold, followed by Tap East’s East End Mild and Wimbledon Brewery taking Bronze with XXXK Vintage Ale, a barley wine at a mere 10% ABV!
The other category winners were:
Old Ales & Strong Milds: Twickenham Gothick Dark
Bitter: Twickenham Grandstand
Best Bitter: Sambrook’s Junction
Strong Bitter: Fuller’s ESB
Golden Ale: Twickenham Naked Ladies
Stout: London Brewing Co 100 Oyster Stout
Speciality Tap East: Coffee in the Morning
Christine Cryne