Judged blind, by people who do this for a living.
Two golds at the World Beer Awards, a gold at the World Cider Awards, a style winner, two silvers and a bronze for the vodka. All of it judged without the label showing.
Every award, and what it was for.
| Drink | Award | Year |
|---|---|---|
| Premium Lager | World Beer Awards Gold, and England Country Winner in the Lager category | 2024 |
| Premium Lager | Great Taste Award | — |
| IPA | World Beer Awards Gold | 2024 |
| Cider | World Cider Awards Gold | 2025 |
| Session Lager | World Beer Awards Silver | 2025 |
| 3.8 Pils | World Beer Awards Silver | 2024 |
| Hedgerow | World Cider Awards Style Winner | — |
| Vodka | World Vodka Awards Bronze | 2024 |
Why blind judging is the only kind that counts.
A brand attached to a television programme with ten million followers can win almost any award that involves a public vote. That is not an achievement, it is arithmetic.
Blind judging is different. The label is covered, the judges are brewers and sommeliers, and the beer either stands up or it does not. Being named England’s best in the lager category at the World Beer Awards means something precisely because nobody in the room knew whose it was.
And what the press said.
Hats off. They have created something really rather special.
Almost tripled its sales to £21.3 million in the year to March 2025.
Now available in 2,000 pubs, up from 500 last summer.
Try the gold-winning ones.
Premium Lager and the cider, both gold, both in the mixed case.
What people actually ask.
The two questions this page gets most, answered without a support ticket.
Not from this site. Hawkstone reaches ten European countries through distributors, and the stockist finder is the honest route.
The lager and the pils are brewed with barley grown here. The cider is pressed from British apples, never concentrate. The spirits use British grain but not exclusively our own, and we say which is which on each page.
Elsewhere on the estate.
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