2025 WINNERS

Best Audio or Video Beer Communication - Sponsored by Fuller, Smith & Turner

Gold: Breandán Kearney - How Westvleteren 12 Accidentally Became “The Best Beer In The World” (Ep52 of the Belgian Smaak Podcast) (photo credit: Jonny Garrett)
Silver: Matthew Curtis - The Pellicle Podcast Ep59 — The State of Independence
Highly Commended: Marverine Cole - Beer Expert Marverine Cole Visits 175-year-old Hook Norton (ITV Love Your Weekend-Alan Titchmarsh)

Best Beer News & Business Communicator - Sponsored by St Austell Brewery

Gold: Matthew Curtis - Short Measure — Are Suggestions To Scrap The British Pint Rooted In Classism?
Silver: Andy Crouch - Why Craft Beer Needs a New Generation of Beer Bars
Highly Commended: James Beeson - Why Black beer is back in fashion

Best Beer Publisher

Best Book about Beer or Pubs - Sponsored by Heineken

Gold: Christina Wade - Filthy Queens: A History of Beer in Ireland
Silver: Andy Parker & Jamil Zainasheff - The Modern Homebrewer (credit: CAMRA Books)

Best Commissioned Beer Writing - Sponsored by Green King

Gold: Lucy Corne - Endangered Flavors
Silver: Katie Mather - These Wooden Ideas — The Incomparable Theakstons’ Old Peculier
Highly Commended: Rachel Hendry - Timothy Taylor’s Landlord — A Polyptych of a Pint

Best Communication about Beer and Travel - Sponsored by Visit Flanders

Gold: Joey Leskin - Down To The River We Ride — The Emergence of Independent Beer in Thailand
Silver: Fred Garratt-Stanley - Cinque Ports — How Medieval Law Shaped the Pubs of Rye, East Sussex
Highly Commended: Claire Bullen - Fill All Fruit With Ripeness — Jitka Ilčíková’s Wild Creatures in Moravia, Czech Republic

The Susanna Forbes Award for the Best Communication about Cider - Sponsored by the National Association of Cider Makers

Gold: Laura Hadland - Cider Review: How do you fingerprint an apple
Silver: Gabe Cook - World of Cider: Asturias (credit: CAMRA Learn & Discover)
Highly Commended: Rachel Hendry & Anaïs Lecoq - Cidre Breton — One Iconic Cider From Both Sides Of The Channel

Best Communication about Diversity in Beer - Sponsored by The British Guild of Beer Writers

Gold: David Jesudason - The Rise of The Micropub
Silver: Rachel Hendry - Cask: A social perception, by Rachel Hendry (credit: CAMRA Learn & Discover)

Best Communication about No and Low Alcohol Beer - Sponsored by Budweiser Brewing Group UK&I

Gold: Rob Fink - A Direction of Travel
Silver: Martin Dixon - AF Valhalla - Has Sweden Got It Right With Alcohol Free Beer?
Highly Commended: Laura Hadland - Alcohol free: situation normal?

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

Gold: Breandán Kearney - From grain to green: the sustainable shift in Belgian brewing
Silver: David Jesudason - Pint pioneers: is this the future of sustainable beer? - Wicked Leeks

Best New or Citizen Beer Communicator - Sponsored by Harvey’s Tom Payne

Gold: 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))

Best Self-Published Beer Writing

Gold: David Jesudason - The Black Boy pub, Tottenham - ‘It was disempowering and shaming’
Silver: Em Sauter - Pairing Beer With Everything (Book)

Best Short-Form Beer Writing

Gold: Cliff Lucas - Oud Arsenaal - Café Society
Silver: Laura Hadland - What's Brewing - Trigger warning: sexual violence and rape
Highly Commended: Katie Mather - My Favourite Pub is a Petrol Station

Best Technical Communication about Beer - Sponsored by WSET

Gold: Pete Brown - Tasting Notes (credit: CAMRA)
Silver: David Nilsen - Pulp Nonfiction: The True Story of Brewing with Cacao Fruit
Highly Commended: Tim O'Rourke - The role & evolution of yeast in brewing: Presentation + Associated Slides

Brewer of the Year - Sponsored by SIBA

Beer of the Year

The Michael Jackson Award for Beer Writer of the Year - Sponsored by The British Guild of Beer Writers