{"id":2668,"date":"2022-05-25T09:47:31","date_gmt":"2022-05-25T09:47:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/londondrinker.camra.org.uk\/wordpress\/?p=2668"},"modified":"2022-05-25T09:47:33","modified_gmt":"2022-05-25T09:47:33","slug":"harveys-at-their-imperial-best","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/londondrinker.camra.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php\/2022\/05\/25\/harveys-at-their-imperial-best\/","title":{"rendered":"Harvey\u2019s at their Imperial Best!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Having missed two years because of the pandemic, CAMRA\u2019s Champion Bottled Beer of Britain competition returned in early May. The final round, the culmination of a series of local member voting and regional judging events throughout the year, was held at Coventry Beer Festival.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The winner was Harvey\u2019s Imperial Extra Double Stout (9% ABV). This was the second time that this beer had won the competition, having been successful in 2015. Harvey\u2019s brew in Lewes, East Sussex, and their joint managing director and head brewer (and recent High Sheriff of East Sussex), Miles Jenner, said, \u201c<em>We are all thrilled to learn of this award. The beer is an authentic recreation of a classic style that was popular in the early nineteenth century, when Harvey\u2019s commenced trading. It has received many accolades since we first brewed it in 1999. For it to take the Championship twice, in the space of seven years, speaks volumes for this uncompromising strong stout<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"349\" src=\"https:\/\/londondrinker.camra.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/image-28-1024x349.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2755\" srcset=\"https:\/\/londondrinker.camra.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/image-28-1024x349.png 1024w, https:\/\/londondrinker.camra.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/image-28-300x102.png 300w, https:\/\/londondrinker.camra.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/image-28-768x262.png 768w, https:\/\/londondrinker.camra.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/image-28.png 1488w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>The judges at work<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>This year there was a tie for the silver award between Hobson\u2019s (Cleobury Mortimer, Shropshire) Dhustone Stout (4.3% ABV) and Runaway Brewery\u2019s (Manchester M4) Runaway IPA (5.5% ABV.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The announcement was made by Laura Emson of CAMRA\u2019s National Executive, who said, \u201c<em>The Champion Bottled Beer of Britain competition is a national celebration of bottle-conditioned beer and is the culmination of hard work by local brewery teams from across the country and CAMRA members who select and judge the beers regionally. The pandemic helped remind <\/em><em>us all just how important bottled and canned beer is, and we\u2019re incredibly lucky to have such a huge breadth and variety <\/em><em>available in bottles these days. Alongside these fantastic winning brews, I\u2019d recommend consumers keep their eye out for our <\/em><em>\u2018One to Try\u2019 sticker, a true indication of quality.<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Having missed two years because of the pandemic, CAMRA\u2019s Champion Bottled Beer of Britain competition returned in early May. The final round, the culmination of a series of local member&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2755,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-beer","category-camra-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/londondrinker.camra.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2668","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/londondrinker.camra.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/londondrinker.camra.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/londondrinker.camra.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/londondrinker.camra.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2668"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/londondrinker.camra.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2668\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2756,"href":"https:\/\/londondrinker.camra.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2668\/revisions\/2756"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/londondrinker.camra.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/londondrinker.camra.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/londondrinker.camra.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/londondrinker.camra.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}