Dartmoor Brewery has won five prizes in this year’s Taste of the West awards, an annual event which celebrates food and drink producers in the West Country with a passion for quality.
Taste of the West awarded Dartmoor Brewery gold for Jail Ale (4.8% ABV), Legend (4.4%) and Jail Ale Commemorative (9%), which was brewed to mark the brewery’s 21st anniversary.
Dartmoor Best (3.7%) and Dartmoor Gold (5%) were awarded silver.
Dartmoor Brewery chooses locally-sourced ingredients whenever possible, such as malted barley grown on Dartmoor by farmer Tim Cox at Drewsteighton and malted at Tucker’s Maltings in Newton Abbot. It’s these ingredients, coupled with pure Dartmoor water, which the beers their distinctive taste, says the company.
Mike Lunney, head brewer at Dartmoor Brewery, said: “We constantly strive to make the highest quality products possible, so it’s great to see our hard work being recognised.
“There is an ever-increasing amount of competition in the beer production world, so we are very proud that our ales were so highly thought of in the Taste of the West awards.”
