We’ve done it again! National Award for Pilot

Here’s the press release!

Cullercoats Brewery wins Bronze in National Beer Competition
Cullercoats Brewery is celebrating success at this year’s Society of Independent Brewers (SIBA) National beer competition, held in Sheffield last week. Having scooped the Gold award for the North East Region, Pilot (one of the company’s Dry Hop Project beers) went forward to the National Finals. Competing against all the regional champions, Pilot was awarded bronze, making it the 8th SIBA award won by the brewery. 208 beers were in the finals, from 8 regions, and there were 80 judges, made up of experts, brewers, suppliers, beer writers and others from within the industry.

Company Director Anna Scantlebury said :
It’s a huge boost to win such a prestigious award in a purely blind tasted competition, jam packed with outstanding breweries. Our Dry Hop Project beers use the traditional method of adding hops to the cask so the flavours develop further as the beer matures. We only use English hops, many of which are still in development as the hop farmers expand production of different varieties. The flavours are outstanding and this award certainly highlights the quality of British hop production.

The brewery, now 5 years old, produced it’s millionth pint last month, raising over £30,000 in the process, through the company’s 3p/pint donation to RNLI(Lifeboats).
Head Brewer Bill Scantlebury champions English ingredients, developing beers to show off the hops grown here. His Shipping Forecast series of beers focus on the other main ingredient in beer, the malt, and the many malt varieties that lend different flavours to the ale. Cullercoats beers are sold widely in pubs throughout Tyne and Wear and Northumberland, as well as at independent off licences.

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