Ickle Brewery's founder has received the award for beer of the festival from last summer's Wolverhampton Summer Festival of Beer and Cider. Stu Betts receives his award from Shelly Bentley.

Members of the Wolverhampton branch of CAMRA visited the Stripey Oss in Upper Gornal on Thursday to present the award to Stu Betts.

Stu, a former Dudley and South Staffordshire CAMRA branch chairman, launched Ickle from his home in Dudley last year.

Shelly Bentley from the Wolverhampton branch presented Stu with is certificate.

Ickle's Trident  - a 4.3 per cent American pale ale - was voted best by visitors to the festival at Wolverhampton Arts Centre last July.

The Stripey Oss, which opened last year in The Arcade, is regularly featuring Ickle's brews on handpull.

To celebrate the win the microbar is having a Black Country weekend featuring three Ickle beers including Oss, a new 4.5 per cent ale in honour of the bar, running to Sunday, February 1.

Ickle T-shirts are on sale and grey paes and bacon is available.