{"id":415,"date":"2019-07-24T21:25:39","date_gmt":"2019-07-24T21:25:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/londondrinker.camra.org.uk\/wordpress\/?p=415"},"modified":"2019-07-24T21:26:18","modified_gmt":"2019-07-24T21:26:18","slug":"london-favours-the-dark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/londondrinker.camra.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php\/2019\/07\/24\/london-favours-the-dark\/","title":{"rendered":"London favours the dark"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Ealing Beer Festival in Walpole Park played host to CAMRA\u2019s third Champion Beer of London competition, featuring beers from all over London, as chosen from a combination of members\u2019 voting for the Champion Beer of Britain and recommendations from the London Tasting Panel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"517\" height=\"368\" src=\"https:\/\/londondrinker.camra.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/image-12.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-416\" srcset=\"https:\/\/londondrinker.camra.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/image-12.png 517w, https:\/\/londondrinker.camra.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/image-12-300x214.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 517px) 100vw, 517px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The judging panels were made up of members of the tasting panel plus specially invited beer writers, brewers and publicans who sipped and smelled their way through 26 cask ales. The bias this year was towards the dark, with Five Points Railway Porter taking gold, followed by Tap East\u2019s East End Mild and Wimbledon Brewery taking Bronze with XXXK Vintage Ale, a barley wine at a mere 10% ABV!<br> The other category winners were:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Old Ales &amp; Strong Milds: Twickenham Gothick Dark<br>Bitter: Twickenham Grandstand<br>Best Bitter: Sambrook\u2019s Junction<br>Strong Bitter: Fuller\u2019s ESB<br>Golden Ale: Twickenham Naked Ladies<br>Stout: London Brewing Co 100 Oyster Stout<br>Speciality Tap East: Coffee in the Morning<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>Christine Cryne<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ealing Beer Festival in Walpole Park played host to CAMRA\u2019s third Champion Beer of London competition, featuring beers from all over London, as chosen from a combination of members\u2019 voting&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":416,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-camra-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/londondrinker.camra.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415","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=415"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/londondrinker.camra.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":417,"href":"https:\/\/londondrinker.camra.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415\/revisions\/417"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/londondrinker.camra.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/londondrinker.camra.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/londondrinker.camra.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/londondrinker.camra.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}