Golden Pints 2011

Just a very quick one today. Golden Pints. You know the drill. Here's my pick of the best of the year.

1. Best UK Draught (Cask or Keg) Beer = Summer Wine Brewery 7Cs (Keg)
2. Best UK Bottled or Canned Beer = Fullers Vintage Ale (Bottle)
3. Best Overseas Draught Beer = Pretty Things Jack D'Or (Keg)
4. Best Overseas Bottled or Canned Beer = Crooked Line Detour IPA
5. Best Overall Beer = Birra Del Borgo My Antonia
6. Best Pumpclip or Label = BrewDog Sunk Punk
7. Best UK Brewery = The Kernel
8. Best Overseas Brewery = Stone Brewing
9. Pub/Bar of the Year = Mr Foleys (Dean has dragged it kicking and screaming into its position as a great craft beer bar)
10. Beer Festival of the Year = #IPADay (It's my list!)
11. Supermarket of the Year = Morrisons
12. Independent Retailer of the Year = Beer Ritz
13. Online Retailer of the Year = MyBreweryTap
14. Best Beer Book or Magazine = BEER Magazine
15. Best Beer Blog or Website = Mark Dredge
16. Best Beer Twitterer = @MelissaCole
17. Best Online Brewery presence = BrewDog
18. Food and Beer Pairing of the Year = Mango and Stilton Burger with Caldera IPA
19. In 2012 I’d Most Like To = Write more whimsically, more frequently, and well, better.
20. Best Brewery that goes to show you can be big but don't have to be bad, you can be good, of the Year = Fullers