Brewers Choice Awards 2025

We’re incredibly excited to share the news that we’ve been shortlisted in TWO categories at this year’s Brewers Choice Awards!

Firstly, we’re absolutely delighted to be up for Brewery of the Year, a huge honour as we head closer towards marking our first full year of employee ownership. We know we’ve got something special and unique here, reflected not just across our wonderful team but also in company growth, and to see that recognised is as humbling as it is rewarding.

And our treasured Black IPA, Black Mass, has been shortlisted for Beer of the Year too! Timeless, tasty, arguably unfashionable yet oozing its own sense of cool, it’s been part of our history since we first began and is a beer we’re incredibly proud of. Fun fact: our CAMRA brewery liaison officer Dave tells us it’s the only entry in the entirety of the Good Beer Guide which has its ABV specified to two decimal places (hey, that 6.66% is important!). Both categories look to be incredibly hotly contested with some absolutely fantastic breweries and beers in the mix – you can view the full shortlist here.

This is the third time we’ve had the privilege of being shortlisted for the Brewers Choice Awards, and we’re also really excited to find out who will be taking over our Jim’s title as Brewer of the Year, having brought home the prestigious glass tankard in 2024.

Organised by the team behind industry magazine The Brewers Journal, this year’s submissions were judged by a wealth of talent that included Lotte Peplow, Europe’s craft beer ambassador for the Brewers Association, Brew Resourceful founder Chris Lewington, Stuart Anderson (founder of one of London’s premier beer retailers Ghost Whale) and Alex Greig, the owner of the fantastic Fuggles Beer Cafe in Tunbridge Wells and Tonbridge. Tim Sheahan, editor of The Brewers Journal, chaired the judging session. The 2025 Brewers Choice Awards will be presented at a ceremony in London on the evening of 30th September. Wish us luck!

Cheers!

Team Abbeydale