GUILD AWARDS 2025 SHORTLIST

Best Audio or Video Beer Communication

Sponsored by Fuller, Smith & Turner

 

Breandán Kearney

How Westvleteren 12 Accidentally Became “The Best Beer In The World” (Ep52 of the Belgian Smaak Podcast) (photo credit: Jonny Garrett)

 

Jaega Wise

Saturday Kitchen Beer Features

(credit: Matt Tebbutt)

 

John Holl

Talking 30 Years of Allagash Brewing With Rob Tod

 

Marverine Cole

Beer Expert Marverine Cole Visits 175-year-old Hook Norton (ITV Love Your Weekend-Alan Titchmarsh)

 

Matthew Curtis

The Pellicle Podcast Ep59 — The State of Independence

 

 

Best Beer News & Business Communicator

Sponsored by St Austell

Andy Crouch

Why Craft Beer Needs a New Generation of Beer Bars

 

James Beeson

Why Black beer is back in fashion

 

John Holl

For Many Breweries, the Rent Is Too Damn High

 

Matthew Curtis

Short Measure — Are Suggestions To Scrap The British Pint Rooted In Classism?

 

 

Best Beer Publisher

Belgian Smaak (submitted by Breandán Kearney)

Belgian Smaak (4 entries) (Contributor credits: Jonny Garrett, Eoghan Walsh, Cliff Lucas, Gheleyne Bastiaen, Oisín Kearney, Ciara Elizabeth Smyth)

 

The Sunday Times Magazine (submitted by Martin Hemming)

The Sunday Times Magazine (4 entries) (credit: Pete Brown)

 

Pellicle Magazine (submitted by Matthew Curtis)

David Bailey's Just Beer Things #18 — A Great Pub (credits: Pellicle Magazine, David Bailey)

Timothy Taylor’s Landlord — A Polyptych of a Pint (credits: Pellicle Magazine, Rachel Hendry (Writer), Matthew Curtis (Photographer))

A Torch In The Infinite — Burton Bridge Brewery in Burton upon Trent, Staffordshire (credits: Pellicle Magazine, Pete Brown (Writer), Matthew Curtis (Photographer))

The Boar They Butchered — The Demise of Ringwood Brewery, Hampshire (credits: Pellicle Magazine, Imran Rahman-Jones (Writer), Laurel Molly (Illustrator))

 

CAMRA Learn & Discover (submitted by Matthew Rogers)

Cask: A social perception by Rachel Hendry (credit: Rachel Hendry)

Common ground: Can there be a relationship between cask beer and sparkling wine? by Rachel Hendry (credit: Rachel Hendry)

Government and hospitality – not the best of bedfellows, by Steve Dunkley (credit: Steve Dunkley)

Pub Companies part 1 – who they are and what they do, by Paul Ainsworth (credit: Paul Ainsworth)

 

 

Best Book about Beer or Pubs

Sponsored by HEINEKEN

Andy Parker & Jamil Zainasheff

The Modern Homebrewer (credit: CAMRA Books)

 

Christina Wade

Filthy Queens: A History of Beer in Ireland

 

Laura Hadland

Beer Festivals, a great British tradition (credit: CAMRA)

 

 

Best Commissioned Beer Writing

Sponsored by Greene King

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Adrian Tierney-Jones

La Cerveza Galesa

 

Katie Mather

These Wooden Ideas — The Incomparable Theakstons’ Old Peculier

 

Lucy Corne

Endangered Flavors

 

Pete Brown

A Torch In The Infinite — Burton Bridge Brewery in Burton upon Trent, Staffordshire (credit: Photography by Matthew Curtis)

 

Rachel Hendry

Timothy Taylor’s Landlord — A Polyptych of a Pint

 

 

Best Communication about Beer and Travel

Sponsored by VISITFLANDERS

 

Lucy Corne 

Grown in Ghana: How Brewers in West Africa Are Embracing Local Grains

 

Claire Bullen 

Fill All Fruit With Ripeness — Jitka Ilčíková’s Wild Creatures in Moravia, Czech Republic

 

Joey Leskin 

Down To The River We Ride — The Emergence of Independent Beer in Thailand

 

Fred Garratt-Stanley 

Cinque Ports — How Medieval Law Shaped the Pubs of Rye, East Sussex

 

Reece Hugill
Pick Up The Flashpoint — Pigalle Beer Bar in Setagaya City, Tokyo

 

 

Best Communication about Cider

Sponsored by National Association of Cider Makers

Beatrix Swanson

Tasty, brutish and short – A snapshot of Swedish cider with Brutes

 

Gabe Cook

World of Cider: Asturias (credit: CAMRA Learn & Discover)

 

Jane Peyton

Cider Knowledge Box

 

Laura Hadland

Cider Review: How do you fingerprint an apple

 

Rachel Hendry & Anaïs Lecoq

Cidre Breton — One Iconic Cider From Both Sides Of The Channel

 

 

Best Communication about Diversity in Beer

Sponsored by British Guild of Beer Writers

David Jesudason

The Rise of The Micropub

 

Lucy Corne

Endangered Flavors

 

Rachel Hendry

Cask: A social perception, by Rachel Hendry (credit: CAMRA Learn & Discover)

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Best Communication about No and Low Alcohol Beer

Sponsored by Budweiser Brewing Group UK&I

Jacopo Mazzeo

Efficient Approaches to Improve No- and Low-Alcohol Beer Production

 

Laura Hadland

Alcohol free: situation normal?

 

Martin Dixon

AF Valhalla - Has Sweden Got It Right With Alcohol Free Beer?

 

Rob Fink

A Direction of Travel

 

 

Best Communication about Sustainability in Beer and Pubs
Sponsored by Carlsberg Britvic

Breandán Kearney

From grain to green: the sustainable shift in Belgian brewing

 

David Jesudason

Pint pioneers: is this the future of sustainable beer? - Wicked Leeks

 

Tori Powell 

A Conversation With... Ideal Day Family Brewery (episode 232) (credits: A Woman's Brew Podcast (Tori Powell & Joanne Love) and Ideal Day Brewery (Nia & James Rylance))

 

 

Best New or Citizen Beer Communicator

Sponsored by Harvey's Brewery

Joey Leskin

London Pubs, Fish & Chips: Where Did It All Go Wrong?

 

Martin Avis

Cask Ale: Why It Deserves Heritage Status

 

Tori Powell

Filthy Queens: A History of Beer in Ireland (episode 228) (credits: A Woman's Brew Podcast (Tori Powell & Joanne Love) and Dr Christina Wade (author of Filthy Queens))

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Best Self-Published Beer Writing

Breandán Kearney

“All In” On Turnhout — How Brouwerij Het Nest Play The Modern Beer Game (credit: Oisín Kearney (Co-Author))

 

David Elphick

Why Laine’s Gen-Z focus is making me feel old in Brighton

 

David Jesudason

The Black Boy pub, Tottenham - ‘It was disempowering and shaming’

 

Em Sauter

Pairing Beer With Everything (Book) 

 

Will Hawkes

London Beer City

 

 

Best Short-Form Beer Writing

Sponsored by Shepherd Neame

Cliff Lucas

Oud Arsenaal - Café Society

 

Katie Mather

My Favourite Pub is a Petrol Station

 

Laura Hadland

What's Brewing - Trigger warning: sexual violence and rape

 

Tim Hickford

The Allure of Yesterday

 

 

Best Technical Communication about Beer

Sponsored by WSET

David Nilsen

Pulp Nonfiction: The True Story of Brewing with Cacao Fruit

 

Laura Hadland

Ferment: Don't fear the foam

 

Lucy Corne

Grown in Ghana: How Brewers in West Africa Are Embracing Local Grains

 

Pete Brown

Tasting Notes (credit: CAMRA)

 

Tim O'Rourke

The role & evolution of yeast in brewing: Presentation + Associated Slides

 

 

Best Brewer of the Year

Sponsored by SIBA

 

Paul Anspach - Anspach & Hobday

 

Lara Lopes - Round Corner Brewing

 

Andy Parker - Elusive Brewing

 

Al Wall - Burton Bridge/Heritage Brewing

 

Matt Thompson - Lost & Grounded

 

 

Best Beer of the Year

 

London Black - Anspach & Hobday

 

Oregon Trail - Elusive Brewing

 

Boddingtons - JW Lees

 

Festbier - Lost & Grounded

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