For the third year running, Truro-based Skinners Brewery won the Cornish champion beer title at the CAMRA Falmouth Beer Festival to qualify once again for next year’s Champion Beer of Great Britain competition.

 

This time it was the turn of Ginger Tosser – originally created for Pancake Day but now a

permanent fixture in the Skinners stable -  to take the honours at Falmouth.

 

Ginger Tosser won the speciality beer class and Skinners were also in the limelight

elsewhere at the festival.    Their newly-launched Betty’s Big Sister, now the second

strongest in the Cornish brewery’s range, was the first barrel to be emptied at the trade night.

 

Ginger Tosser was second overall in the entire festival, while Pennycomequick took silver in

the stout class.  Pennycomequick is the stout specially brewed to launch the Falmouth

Oyster Festival, which ran earlier in October, and it is now available across the county.

 

It added up to another outstanding festival performance for Skinners, whose Betty Stogs was

judged champion best bitter at the CAMRA South Devon Beer Festival at Newton Abbot last

month.

 

In August, Skinners took silver in the best bitter category of one of the UK’s biggest festivals

at Peterborough with its Cornish Knocker Ale.

 

“It all reflects a great team effort by everyone involved in our hard-working brewery team and

our Cornish barley growers,” said chief executive Steve Skinner.

 

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