What were the Champion Beer of Scotland 2025 results?

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Five Kingdoms Dark Storm won Gold at the Champion Beer of Scotland 2025, with Five Kingdoms McGregor's Mild taking Silver and Cairngorm Wildcat taking Bronze. The final was a blind tasting by a panel of judges at the 24th Ayrshire Real Ale Festival on Friday, 3 October 2025, according to the CAMRA Scottish Branches (SCOTB) website.

The 2025 results at a glance

Award Beer Brewery
Gold Dark Storm Five Kingdoms
Silver McGregor's Mild Five Kingdoms
Bronze Wildcat Cairngorm

The trophy was presented to Five Kingdoms head brewer Brendon Dennett by RD Stuart McMahon, alongside fellow brewer Nathan Walls.

What the result tells you

  • One brewery took the top two places. Five Kingdoms earned both Gold and Silver, so its range performed strongly with the judging panel in a single session.
  • The judging method was blind tasting. Judges assessed the beers without seeing which brewery produced them, which is the format CAMRA uses for this final.
  • The venue was a CAMRA festival. The result was decided at the Ayrshire Real Ale Festival rather than at a separate standalone competition.

A related result worth knowing

The same page also records a national win: Cairngorm Black Gold was judged Champion Winter Beer of Britain 2025 at CAMRA's National Winter Ales Festival, held in Burton on Trent in February 2025. That gives Cairngorm a British-level title in the same year its Wildcat took Bronze in Scotland.

Where this fits

SCOTB is the portal for all ten CAMRA branches in Scotland and represents a membership of over 4,000 within CAMRA's UK-wide branch network. Competition results like these are the kind of branch and regional news the site carries alongside its branch information.