Voting for the first round of the 2019 (yes, 2019!) competition is now underway. All CAMRA members are able to vote via the website at www.cbobvoting.org.uk. You can nominate up to five beers in each of the eleven categories to be put forward for the CBoB competition, but if you only want to nominate beers in one category, or even just one beer, that’s fine too. As Sheffield & District CAMRA covers both South Yorkshire and Derbyshire, our members are eligible to vote for breweries based in both the North East & Yorkshire and the East Midlands regions, but you will have to log on twice to do so.
The process for a beer winning this national competition is as follows: CAMRA members vote for the best beers brewed in their area (subject to certain eligibility criteria), then there is regional judging at local beer festivals to decide which beers progress to the national vote, and finally the prizes are judged and winners announced at Great British Beer Festival.
Happy voting!
Dominic Nelson Champion Beer of Britain
You might have seen by now that Church End Brewery’s Goats Milk won the coveted CAMRA Champion Beer of Britain prize at the recent Great British Beer Festival in London. Unfortunately there were no Sheffield winners in any of the categories this year, but now your chance is here to change that in the future.
Voting for the first round of the 2019 (yes, 2019!) competition is now underway. All CAMRA members are able to vote via the website at www.cbobvoting.org.uk. You can nominate up to five beers in each of the eleven categories to be put forward for the CBoB competition, but if you only want to nominate beers in one category, or even just one beer, that’s fine too. As Sheffield & District CAMRA covers both South Yorkshire and Derbyshire, our members are eligible to vote for breweries based in both the North East & Yorkshire and the East Midlands regions, but you will have to log on twice to do so.
The process for a beer winning this national competition is as follows: CAMRA members vote for the best beers brewed in their area (subject to certain eligibility criteria), then there is regional judging at local beer festivals to decide which beers progress to the national vote, and finally the prizes are judged and winners announced at Great British Beer Festival.
Happy voting!
Dominic Nelson
Voting for the first round of the 2019 (yes, 2019!) competition is now underway. All CAMRA members are able to vote via the website at www.cbobvoting.org.uk. You can nominate up to five beers in each of the eleven categories to be put forward for the CBoB competition, but if you only want to nominate beers in one category, or even just one beer, that’s fine too. As Sheffield & District CAMRA covers both South Yorkshire and Derbyshire, our members are eligible to vote for breweries based in both the North East & Yorkshire and the East Midlands regions, but you will have to log on twice to do so.
The process for a beer winning this national competition is as follows: CAMRA members vote for the best beers brewed in their area (subject to certain eligibility criteria), then there is regional judging at local beer festivals to decide which beers progress to the national vote, and finally the prizes are judged and winners announced at Great British Beer Festival.
Happy voting!
Dominic Nelson 
Find out the average price of your favourite pint, discover the most popular beers and breweries available in your area and see how the price of a pint is correlated with its strength. You can find the app at 
136 pubs were visited on the day and between them they offered 590 real ales. That equates to an average of 4.3 handpumps per pub, which is far higher than the number found by Manchester in their recent beer survey. In total, there were 360 unique beers from 148 different breweries. Real cider was available at 24 of the pubs surveyed, comprising 25 unique ciders from 20 different makers.
The average cost of a pint of real ale was £3.12, an increase of about 8p (or 2.6% for the mathematically minded) from last year. This is in line with 2% inflation, plus the 2p beer duty added in the March budget. Beers ranged in price from £1.79 to £5.60. The average amount paid for a pint of real cider was somewhat higher at £3.72.
Local breweries dominated the pumps, with Abbeydale (57), Bradfield (50) and Thornbridge (46) the top three most widely available breweries in Sheffield’s pubs. Abbeydale’s Moonshine took the top spot in the beer standings, being offered in 33 of the 136 pubs visited. Encouragingly, local beers held six of the top ten places.
Thanks to everyone who organised and took part in the census, and a special thank you to Phil Ellett who created an excellent online system for us to check-in our findings.