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Beard Liberation Front

14^th January

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Clapton Craft shaves Mother Kelly’s to win Beard Friendly Bottle Shop of Year vote

The Beard Liberation Front, the informal network of beard wearers, has said that the first ever vote for the Beard Friendly Bottle Shop of the Year has seen Clapton Craft bottle shops shave Mother Kelly’s bottle shops, both in London, for the accolade. The separate Bottle Shop in Roath Cardiff and Penarth was third.

The criteria for the trial poll were:

1] The shop must sell beard friendly beers and primarily beer, rather than being a general off licence that includes beer

2] The shop must be welcoming to the hirsute

BLF Organiser Keith Flett said, there was huge interest in the poll underlining that the market for craft beer has now created a new range of beard friendly shops. The vote will run again in January 2019 but in the meantime congratulations to the winners.

Beard Friendly Bottle Shop of the Year

Clapton Craft (London)

Mother Kellys (London)

Hop,Burns & Black (London)

Beermoth (Manchester)

Cotteridge Wines (Birmingham)

Little Leeds Beerhouse

Bottle Shop (Roath/Penarth)

Bottle Shop SE1

Hops’n’Pops (Cardiff)