BREW York and Rooster’s Brewery have won the two top awards in the SIBA North East Independent Beer Awards, hosted at the B-Fest Beer, Blues and Folk festival held at the Barbican Centre.
The competition is entered by breweries from across Yorkshire, Humberside, Cleveland, Durham, Tyne and Wear and Northumberland.
Brew York took home the overall Gold in the cask competition with their Keras American Pale Ale,and Rooster’s Brewery in Knareborough was named overall small pack (bottle and can) winner for their Twenty-Four-Seven Session IPA.
Co-owner and brewer Wayne Smith said: ""We're over the moon,. The beer festival is in our home town so we only have to walk five minutes from our brewery to get here, so we hoped we would be in with a chance.
"Keras is our one-off pale ale so to win gold overall is amazing. The cask that we sent in for the competition is the last cask we had, so we might have to brew some more.
"It's a classic pale ale with two American hops and obviously it's a crowd pleaser so we're quite excited to brew it again."
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