Bristol brewery Butcombe’s first low-alcohol beer has been named as one of the best in the world just a year after its launch.
Goram IPA Zero claimed both Gold and Country Winner titles in the No/Low IPA category at this year’s prestigious World Beer Awards. 
Wrington-based Butcombe, which has been making beer since 1978 and is now part of Channel Islands-based Liberation Group, describes Goram IPA Zero as an easy-to-drink and refreshing ale made with a punchy blend of English, US and New Zealand hops which balance stone fruit, citrus and bitter notes.
The brewery’s first foray into the rapidly growing no and low-alcohol drinks market, the beer mirrors its original recipe for its Goram IPA, named after Bristol’s legendary giant.
Thousands of beers from across the world, ranging from strong Belgian wheat beers to lagers and bitters, enter the globally recognised annual World Beer Awards, with the tipples sampled by more than 200 international industry experts.
Liberation group managing director, brewing & distribution, Marc McGuigan said: “Goram IPA Zero is a relatively new product for us so to earn recognition from world-renowned industry experts so soon is a huge achievement.
“This award pays testament to the quality of our products and the skill, passion and dedication of the team at Butcombe Brewing Co and I’d like to take this opportunity to raise a glass to them all.”
Success in the World Beer Awards follows Goram IPA Zero’s triumph at the SIBA (The Society of Independent Brewers) Bottle and Can Beer Independent Beer Awards for the South West, where it landed Gold in the no/low alcohol beer category within a few months of its launch.
Butcombe owns more than 60 pubs – many of them gastropubs or inns with accommodation – in an area stretching from Bristol to the South, South West and the West Midlands.
In Bristol it owns The Cottage Inn at Baltic Wharf, The Ostrich on Lower Guinea Street and The Whitmore Tap on Whiteladies Road, which it converted last year to become Butcombe’s first taproom and named after brewery founder Simon Whitmore.
