BRANCH AWARDS
Each quarter we make an award to our Pub of the Season (POTS).
To be successful a pub has to be nominated by a member at one of our regular Branch meetings. A short list of three or four is drawn up and over the next couple of months members make the effort to visit as many of the nominated pubs as possible, sometimes as part of one of our socials!
Members have to complete a judging form which covers everything from quality of the Real Ale, the most important point, to facilities, clientele, welcome from staff etc. Results are collated and then a pub is selected at a branch meeting. Arrangements are then made to make the presentation as well as as much publicity for the award as possible.
All Pub of the Season winners are automatically eligible to go forward to our most prestigious award the PUB OF THE YEAR. POTY)
We also select a Club of the Year as well
In 2008 we decided to introduce two new awards to be made at our Beer Festival. The first being our City Pub of the Year. The reason for this is to recognise that the city pubs are very different from a village or country one.
Second came the Branch Beer of the Year. Only breweries in our area are eligible.
Both are voted for by the membership.
Page updated 2 Nov 2009.
