A Northumberland brewery have taken home a haul of golds from the North East Indie Beer Awards, held at the Brew York Beer Hall, in York.
Matthew Brown, of Twice Brewed, accepting his champion’s medal from Alex Balchin, of SIBA, who organise the Indie Beer Awards
Twice Brewed were named champions in three keg beer style categories and then the ‘best of the best’ in the overall champions judging, taking the gold medal haul for the brewery to an impressive four.
“Massively suprised to win, especially with a dandelion and burdock sour beer, which honestly is a little bit ‘out there’!” said Matthew Brown, head brewer at Twice Brewed.
“It’s a beer we’ve tweaked and improved over time, and it’s now really exactly where we want it, and it’s great that judges have recognised the hard work that’s gone into it.”
All of the category champions will now go forwards to the national finals of the Indie Beer Awards at BeerX, in Liverpool in March.
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Matthew said: “It was one of my aims when I started at Twice Brewed to get our beers to BeerX and onto the Champions Bar, so to have multiple beers in the running this year is absolutely amazing, and I can’t wait to see how we do at the national.”
The Indie Beer Awards North East were held at the Brew York Beer Hall, who are running a free beer festival today and over the weekend, featuring all of the winning beers.
Indie Beer Awards organiser, Neil Walker, said: “The quality of beers in the Indie Beer Awards North East was phenomenal, and I’m very jealous of any beer-lovers near to York who can get down over the next few days to sample some of the very best beers you’ll find anywhere in the UK at the excellent Brew York Taproom and Beer Hall.”
A full list of results is available here.
