2011 SCOTTISH BEEFBURGER AWARDS

There was justification for Craig Douglas
postponing the holiday arranged by his wife to celebrate his 40th birthday on
Thursday 11th May. The reigning Scottish Pork Sausage and Scottish Beef Sausage
Champion wanted to attend the Scottish Meat Trade Fair on Sunday prior to his
major milestone and when his Beefburger was named the best in Scotland, not only
was he relieved to have cancelled his wife, Kelly's plans, but he had something
more to celebrate.

After the selection of the top five in the
recent evaluation held in Dunfermline, the best five beefburgers were mystery
shopped and then submitted before three expert judges at the St Andrews Links
Trust.

The judges were:_

Scott Dougal from Strathtyrum Catering, (former Scottish Chef of the year
2000),

Ewen Bowman operations director for St Andrews Links Trust, and

Ian Macdonald, Executive head chef for St Andrews Links Trust and vice
president of the Federation of Chefs Scotland.

The Links Trust serves hundreds of burgers to
golfers every year and although the three judges were very impressed with all
the finalists, they proclaimed the St Boswells burger as their favourite.

DIAMOND
AWARD
J
C Douglas Quality Butcher, St Boswells
.
GOLD
AWARDS
Boghall
Butchers, Bathgate
Forbes
Raeburn, HuntlyÂ
Forbes
Raeburn, HuntlyÂ
Scott
Brothers, Dundee
A
D Paton, Largs
Auchengree
Farm Shop
Christies
the Butchers, Glasgow and Hardgate
J
B Houston, Dumfries
J
C Dawson, Elgin
James
Chapman (Butchers) Ltd. Wishaw
.
SILVER
AWARDS
A
& I Quality Butchers, Culloden
A
& I Quality Butchers, Inverness
A
Davidson Butchers, Scone
Bertram's
Quality Butchers, Kirriemuir
D
G Lindsay & Son, Perth
David
Faulds & Sons, Kilmarnock
David
Faulds & Sons, Kilmarnock
Hillfoots
Country Butchers, Tullibody
James
Rae & Son, Polmont & Kincardine
John
Lawson, Uphall
MacDougall
& Hastie, Inverness
R
George, Lhanbryde
Shaws
Fine Meats, Lauder
T
Baillie & Son, Saltcoats
Thornhill
Stores, Thornhill, Dumfries & Galloway
W
F Stark, Buckhaven
We
Hae Meat, Girvan