FIVE POINTS PRESENTATION
Hackney’s Five Points Brewing Company won the silver award for their Pale Ale in the London and South East Region round of the Champion Beer of Britain competition. Members of CAMRA’s East London & City branch, led by brewery liaison officer Vincent Stops, visited the brewery on a hot thundery evening in July to present the award, the latest of many, to this popular and successful business. The photo shows Vincent presenting the award to the managing director of Five Points, Edward Mason, and brewer Greg Stork. Following the presentation the ELAC contingent moved on to the nearby Pembury Tavern, now run by Five Points, to sample some of their excellent beers.
Andy Kinch
Editor’s note: Five Points Pale went on to win the silver award in the Golden beers category in the Champion Beer of Britain final judging.
FOURPURE BREWING
Fourpure have used the investment from the Australian company Lion to open a new tap room in Rotherhithe New Road (SE16 3LL). The bar, called ‘Basecamp’, featuring 43 taps serving all of the brewery’s beers, a shop and a live music area, is open seven days a week. See here.
FULLER’S (ASAHI)
Asahi Europe Ltd are sponsoring the Best Beer & Travel Writer award in this year’s Guild of Beer Writers Awards. Their participation is allowing the Guild to increase the prize money to £1,000 for the winner and £500 for the runner up. The awards will be presented at the Guild’s annual dinner in December.
HAMMERTON BREWERY
After a recent expansion, Hammerton’s tap room is now open every Friday and Saturday from midday to 10pm. Their website says that they are also dog friendly and that tiny humans are welcome until 8pm. Food is usually available from visiting street food vendors and there is a ‘happy hour’ on Friday from 4pm to 7pm when any pint from their core range is £4. Hammerton continue to develop new beers; Crunch, their peanut butter milk stout (KeyKeg), has been particularly successful.
Gerard Tierney
SAMBROOK’S
Congratulations to Sambrook’s who won a gold medal at the World Beer Awards for 2019 with their amazing 10.4% ABV Russian Imperial Stout.
MORE AWARDS FOR LONDON BREWERIES
Having won the Glen Payne Rising Star Award last year, Fourpure once again featured in the International Beer Challenge, organised by Drinks Retailing News. This time, they took the Supreme Champion award for Design & Packaging with their Pioneer range. Moncada also received a gold medal for their Blueprint Design.
On the beer side, Fourpure also featured here with a gold for their Session IPA. Brew by Numbers were also successful with Chapter 2, an elderflower, barrel aged saison which was a collaboration with Kent’s Curious Brewing. The latter went on to win the UK Brewer of the Year.
The Awards have been running for 23 years and feature beers from 39 countries, so competition is fierce. For the full list of winners, see here.
Christine Cryne
NEW BREWERIES
Ones to look out for are Bowtie Brewers (Watford), Jawbone Brewing (Twickenham) and Ealing Brewing (Brentford). It is reported however that Tottenham based Brewheadz have ceased operating.
Compiled by Tony Hedger, except where otherwise credited