Several branch breweries received certificates at the annual West Midlands CAMRA regional awards at the Firs Club in Codsall on Saturday, December 27.

Holden's Brewery in Woodsetton won gold in the barley wines and strong ales category of the West Midlands Champion Beer competition.

Enville Ales took home silver in the same category for Blizzard.

Enville won gold in the differently produced speciality category for Enville White. It also won silver in strong stouts and porters for Enville Gothic.

Holden's had a bronze for Black Country Mild in the milds category and silver in the premium bitter category for Golden Glow.

Kinver Brewery won three awards in the bottled beers categories. Bronze for Kinver Edge in the under 4.4 per cent category and bronze for Khyber and silver for Over the Edge in the over 4.4 per cent category.

The overall West Midlands Champion was Hobson's Dhustone Stout (4.3 per cent).

The Dudley and South Staffordshire branch was highly commended in the pub data section and won gold for most improved pub information in 2025.

*At the awards Simon Massey, director of the Sarah Hughes Brewery and the Beacon Hotel in Sedgley, appealed for CAMRA members across the West Midlands to support efforts to get business rates reduced for pubs.

He warned that more pubs would close unless the Government had a re-think.

"If we don't take up this fight more and more pubs are going to close. The few good pubs will survive, but many traditional pubs are going to be lost because they can't afford to go on.

"Only us and CAMRA are going to take up the fight," he said.

Gary Timmons, CAMRA's pubs and clubs campaigns director, said 15,000 pubs had been lost nationally since he became a CAMRA member.

"It is up to all of us to get in touch with our MPs. We have go to engage with whoever is in power," he said.

He urged member to write letters to their MPS in support of reducing business rates for pubs and branches to invite MPS to their beer festivals to lobby them. Dave and Carol Kelly of Kinver Brewery with the bottled beers awards.

Becky Braham of Enville Ales with the brewery's awards.