The UK’s best beer has been named!

Raise your glasses please to Crouch Vale Brewery’s Amarillo, which was crowned by Real Ale’s 2024 Champion Beer of Britain campaign.

Crouch Vale’s Amarillo (5% ABV) was praised by jury organizer Christine Cryne for its “pungent aroma with a slight biscuit note”. The flavor is full of tropical notes and citrus over a sweet cookie base. Dry, sweet and bitter finish. A beer full of flavors.

She added that there were “exceptionally strong competition”, but that Amarillo was still a worthy winner. Judging takes two years and is done entirely by blind tasting. The Crouch Vale Brewery was founded in 1981 and has won CAMRA gongs before, but this was its first in almost two decades.

Crouch Vale Brewery Directors, Colin and Fiona Bocking, commented on the win, saying: “We are delighted. We’ve been doing this for half our lives. We won in 2005, then in 2006, and there was a 19-year hiatus. Hopefully this will demonstrate to people that we are still here and still producing good beer. It’s a beer that’s been brewed for 30 years, back when a lot of these really interesting American hops were coming onto the market, we decided to use Amarillo hops from Washington State in the USA, and we always use. Today.’

Silver prize winner was The IPA (6% ABV) from South London‘s Anspach & Hobday, and the bronze winner was Trawlerboys Best Bitter (4.6% ABV) from Green Jack Brewery in Lowestoft, Suffolk.

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