Star award for Great Orme Brewery’s golden ale
Great Orme Brewery’s golden ale Celtica has been named as a stellar performer in this year’s Guild of Fine Foods Great Taste Awards.
The brewery has won a gold star in the prestigious UK-wide awards for the light-coloured real ale Celtica. The news comes just two months after Great Orme Brewery won the Mild category in CAMRA’s Champion Beer of Wales Awards with its Welsh Black brew.
Great Orme Brewery MD Jonathan Hughes said: “It is wonderful for Celtica – one of our most popular ales – to be recognised in this way. The awards showcase some of the finest artisan food and drinks in the UK, so winning a gold star is a great achievement for our small team.”
It has been a strong year for the brewery based in Glan Conwy. Along with winning two awards for its beers, Great Orme Brewery also recently passed the milestones of brewing its millionth pint and selling more than 100 casks in a week.
Guild of Fine Foods Great Taste Awards gold star winners have to fight through several rounds of judging, by more than 350 of the UK’s most professional, dedicated and knowledgeable judges. The gold star winners were announced earlier this month (August).
This year’s panel included Masterchef winner and restaurateur Mat Follas, restaurant critic and Masterchef judge Charles Campion, food writers Lucas Hollweg and Xanthe Clay and over 300 food buyers from leading food halls, delicatessens and farm shops, including Harrods, Selfridges and Fortnum & Mason.
There were more than 8,800 entries to the awards, which have gained a reputation for launching little-known artisan producers into the big time of the fine food world.
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