Golden Pints 2013

Mark Dredge who blogs at Pencil and Spoon is inviting people to nominate their pubs and beers of the year. Below is my, admittedly quite traditionalist,  take on Golden Pints 2013.

Best UK Cask Beer

Holt’s Bitter, the world’s best beer when on top form.

Best UK Keg Beer

Apart from a couple of pints of Heineken at football matches, don't think I’ve drunk any.

Best UK Bottled or Canned Beer

Fuller’s 1845.

Best Overseas Draught Beer

Uerige Alt.

Best Overseas Bottled or Canned Beer

Schlenkerla Rauchmärzen, Guinness Foreign Extra Stout.

Best Collaboration Brew

No idea.

Best Overall Beer

Holt’s Bitter.

Best Branding, Pumpclip or Label

Draught Bass.

Best UK Brewery

Holt’s.

Best Overseas Brewery

Schlenkerla.

Best New Brewery Opening 2013

No idea.

Pub/Bar of the Year

The Lamb and The Grapes in Eccles, The Hare and Hounds and The Unicorn in Manchester, all proper working-class boozers selling cheap, well-kept cask beer.

Best New Pub/Bar Opening 2013

Hope Inn, Stockport’s only brewpub until The Magnet gets its brewing operation off the ground in the New Year.

Beer Festival of the Year

Stockport, Fuller’s ESB in top condition.

Supermarket of the Year

Sainsbury’s for Guinness FES, Tesco's for Fuller’s 1845.

Independent Retailer of the Year

Wouldn’t know.

Online Retailer of the Year

Beers of Europe.

Best Beer Book or Magazine

BEER, despite Roger Protz’s regular howlers.

Best Beer Blog or Website

Shut Up About Barclay Perkins, Zythophile.

Best Beer App

Haven’t a clue.

Simon Johnson Award for Best Beer Twitterer

No idea.

Best Brewery Website/Social media

Im Füchsen and Augustiner are both pretty entertaining.

Food and Beer Pairing of the Year

Pork pie and a pint of bitter, as ever. Sarah Hughes Dark Ruby mild and a cheese cob is a close second though.