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GUILD AWARDS 2026 SHORTLIST

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

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  • Em Sauter - All About Beer Podcast - The Science Of Beer

  • Lloyd Lugsden - Pubs of the Shire - Episode 1: Liz at the Welly 

  • Natalya Watson - Cheers with Nat Ep 4 – Christina Wade: Beer historian, spooky girl, and castle person

  • Jaega Wise - Desi Pubs - Food Programme, BBC Radio 4 (credit: Producer - Sam Grist)


 

Best Beer News & Business Communicator
Sponsored by St Austell 

 

  • Ben Gibbs - It Tastes Great! (Honestly)

  • Matthew Curtis - With the ‘Irish pub pandemic’, does Manchester have too much of a good thing?

  • Pete Turner - Where's your beer from? (Instagram)

  • Rachel Auty - A Pint of Love - Yr Heliwr, Nefyn (Credit: Katie Greenhalf and Rachel Auty in partnership with CAMRA and Plunkett UK)

  • Tim Webb - Beer in the UK


 

Best Beer Publisher
Sponsored by DAMM UK

 

  • Belgian Smaak 

  • Final Gravity

  • Pellicle Magazine 

  • The Grocer 

 

Best Book about Beer or Pubs
Sponsored by HEINEKEN UK

 

  • Andreas Krennmair - Bavarian White Beer

  • Lloyd Lugsden - Pubs of Olney

  • Lydia Wood - LOCALS - An Illustrated Ode to London's Pubs

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Best Commissioned Beer Writing
Sponsored by Greene King

 

  • Adrian Tierney-Jones - A Scanner Dreckly — The Life and Legacy of St. Austell Proper Job IPA 

  • Anthony Gladman - Always Burning: 150 Years of the Carlsberg Research Laboratory

  • Breandán Kearney - Keeping the flame alive 

  • Jacopo Mazzeo - Cask Beer: A Suitable Case for Treatment

  • Joey Leskin - Birdhouse In Your Soul — Lucy Do and The Dodo Micropub in Hanwell, West London

  • Lana Svitankova - To irritate our foes to make our mothers happy

 

Best Communication about Beer and Travel
Sponsored by VISITFLANDERS

 

  • Adrian Tierney-Jones - The Shape of Pils to Come — 30 Years of Birrificio Italiano’s Tipopils 

  • Ben Gibbs - When Bathams Move 

  • Emma Inch - Bridges 

  • Jacopo Mazzeo - Sarajevska Pivara: A Well of Life in Sarajevo 

 

The Susanna Forbes Award for Best Communication about Cider

 

  • Adam Wells - On cider and voice and struggle and AI 

  • Alistair Reece - Apple Tree Woman 

  • Ben Gibbs - It's Not Apple juice 

  • Gabe Cook - Africa's Greatest Cider Maker 

  • Ruvani de Silva - American Heirloom Cider Apples Part Three 

 

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

 

  • Ben Gibbs - Welcome, On Certain Terms 

  • Emma Inch - My Round 

  • Jaega Wise - BBC Radio 4 - The Food Programme - Desi Pubs (credit: producer Sam Grist)

  • Joey Leskin - Birdhouse In Your Soul — Lucy Do and The Dodo Micropub in Hanwell, West London 

 

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

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  • Ben Gibbs - It Tastes Great! (Honestly) 

  • James Beeson - Low & no’s road to success

  • Jane Peyton - Why Do I Feel A Buzz From Non-Alcoholic Beer? 

  • Laura Hadland - Alcohol free - where are we now? 


 

Best Communication about Sustainability in Beer and Pubs

 

  • Jacopo Mazzeo - Cask Beer: A Suitable Case for Treatment

  • Laura Hadland - How brewing is meeting the climate challenge 

  • Lucy Corne - Out of Africa: a snapshot of the continent’s craft beer scene

 

Best New or Citizen Beer Communicator
Sponsored by Harveys

 

  • Elizabeth Townsend - First Draught Podcast: Episode 4 - Pints and Pivots

  • Imran Rahman-Jones - Brewdog and Innis & Gunn – Two breweries, one downfall 

  • Martin Avis - Inside Anspach & Hobday: The Rise of London Black 

 

Best Self-Published Beer Writing

 

  • Adrian Tierney-Jones - Idle Chatter — and potholes 

  • Ben Gibbs - Welcome, On Certain Terms 

  • Emma Inch - Haunting 

  • Will Hawkes - London Beer City: July Heatwave Special

 

Best Short-Form Beer Writing
Sponsored by Shepherd Neame

 

  • Adrian Tierney-Jones - Idle Chatter — and potholes 

  • David Bailey - Hundreds of Bottle Caps 

  • Elizabeth Townsend - On Loneliness (Instagram)

  • Emma Inch - My Round 

  • Katie Mather - The Highland Laddie, Leeds 

  • Ruvani de Silva - Young Americans Are Falling for Traditional British-Style Beer Service 

 

Best Technical Communication about Beer
Sponsored by WSET

 

  • Laura Hadland - Heritage Brewing: The Union Sets 

  • Matthew Curtis - Knees to the Earth — French & Jupps Maltings in Stanstead Abbotts, Hertfordshire 

  • Nick Law - Sludge, Soup and Everything In Between: Can You Re-use Dry Hops [with Garage Project, NZ]

  • Timothy O’Rourke - Birth of Pale Lager

 

Brewer of the Year
Sponsored by SIBA
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  • Dann Paquette and Martha Holley-Paquette - Saint Mars of the Desert

  • Kate Hyde - Hand Brew Co.

  • Mark Welsby - Runaway Brewery

  • Matthew Brown - Twice Brewed

  • Vinny Rosario - Moonwake Brewery

 

Beer of the Year

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  • Northern Helles - Donzoko Brewery

  • Oud Bruin - The Kernel

  • Pickle? - Barney’s Beer

  • Proper Job 0.5% - St Austell Brewery

  • Reverence -  Abbeydale Brewery

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