Voting in CAMRA’s Champion Beer of Britain competition for 2026 will open on Thursday 12 September and will close on 4 November. All current CAMRA members are encouraged to vote. It is your chance to have a say in this competition. If you have not voted before, there is a voting guide available on the website.
Once the votes are counted and the nominations from local tasting panels taken into account, the winning beers will go through to a series of regional heats that will be held across the country. All judging is carried out on a ‘blind tasting’ basis. It is hoped that the final judging and the announcement of the winners will take place at the 2026 Great British Beer Festival.
You can vote for up to five beers across each of the following 12 categories:
- Milds: up to and including 4% ABV
- Session bitters: up to and including 4.3% ABV
- Premium bitters: 4.4% to 6.4% ABV
- Session pale, blond and golden ales: up to and including 4.3% ABV
- Premium pale, blond and golden ales: 4.4% to 6.4% ABV
- British and New World IPAs: 5.5% ABV and above
- Brown and red ales, old ales and strong milds: up to 6.4% ABV
- Session stouts and porters: up to and including 4.9% ABV
- Strong stouts and porters, including imperial stouts and Baltic porters: 5.0% ABV and above
- Barley wines and strong ales: 6.5% ABV and above
- Speciality beers: differently produced
- Speciality beers: flavoured
If you are interested in joining the London Tasting Panel, you should register your interest with Christine Cryne. You will however need to be trained first. Please see the advert below for details of the next courses.
