News / Food & drink awards
A BREWERY, cheese-maker and fish and chip shop in Shetland have been nominated in this year’s Highlands & Islands Food & Drink Awards.
The Lerwick Brewery is up for the best drink award with its 60 North lager, while Shetland Cheese Ltd’s St Ninian’s soft cheese is up for best new product and Frankie’s Fish & Chips will be hoping to add the best eatery award to its growing array of prizes.
All three businesses were shortlisted for the Scottish Food and Drink Excellence Awards earlier this year.
In all there are 41 finalists in 12 award categories chosen by 14 judges, headed by sponsor Gordon & MacPhail’s director of UK sales Steven Rankin.
The winners will be announced at a dinner in the Kingsmills Hotel, Inverness, hosted by broadcaster and comedian Fred MacAulay, on Friday 24 October.
Lerwick Brewery’s Scottish sales manager Alison Graham said the latest nomination demonstrated how its “flagship” Pilsener lager was “proving a hit with beer drinkers”.
“Drinkers love the depth of taste coupled with the lack of artificial fizz so redolent of many mass-market lagers,” she said.
“We are delighted that 60° North has been recognised by the Highlands & Islands Food & Drink Awards. It’s a fantastic accolade to be a finalist.”
Frankie’s manager John Gold said the business was “honoured to have been shortlisted” for the second successive year.
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