Real Cider Award For The Blue Bell Inn

Local CAMRA Cider Pub of the Year competition

Spokesperson for the local CAMRA group, Alan Gass explains “There’s only a handful of local pubs selling real cider in our area and we hope to encourage more and promote healthy competition to win awards in our annual competition.” Following discussions at a recent meeting of the Dumfries and Galloway branch, the following pub was selected for our first ever Real Cider award:

Winner – Dumfries & Stewartry Real Cider Pub of the Year 2017:

The Blue Bell Inn, Annan

The Blue Bell went into further heats to find CAMRA`s National Cider Pub of the Year 2017, and was awarded a certificate as one of two runners-up in Scotland.

The Scottish Real Cider Pub of the Year 2017 is The Pitcairngreen Inn in Tayside Region.

Dumfries & Stewartry Overall Winner and Scottish Runners-up presentation took place during the annual May Cider festival at the Blue Bell Inn, Annan on Sunday 28^th May 2017.

Michael Lindsay and Charmaine Kerr are presented with the awards by Phil Robinson (right) and Andrew Emmerson (Cider Rep) (left) from the local CAMRA Branch.

Also shown – their Dumfriesshire Area Winners award as Pub of The Year 2017.