{"id":5597,"date":"2025-07-28T08:57:42","date_gmt":"2025-07-28T08:57:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/londondrinker.camra.org.uk\/wordpress\/?p=5597"},"modified":"2025-07-28T09:02:47","modified_gmt":"2025-07-28T09:02:47","slug":"jos-brouwer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/londondrinker.camra.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php\/2025\/07\/28\/jos-brouwer\/","title":{"rendered":"Tribute &#8211; Jos Brouwer"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/londondrinker.camra.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/503811693_1350308299992844_6078612333319467307_n-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5598\" srcset=\"https:\/\/londondrinker.camra.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/503811693_1350308299992844_6078612333319467307_n-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/londondrinker.camra.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/503811693_1350308299992844_6078612333319467307_n-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/londondrinker.camra.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/503811693_1350308299992844_6078612333319467307_n-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/londondrinker.camra.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/503811693_1350308299992844_6078612333319467307_n-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/londondrinker.camra.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/503811693_1350308299992844_6078612333319467307_n.jpg 1365w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Jos was one of the sizeable contingent of European beer aficionados who regularly came to London every August to work on the Bi\u00e8re Sans Fronti\u00e8res bars at the Great British Beer Festival. &nbsp;A distinctive figure, many readers will have known him by sight.&nbsp; He was a leading member of PINT, CAMRA\u2019s equivalent in his native Netherlands, and he was active in the European Beer Consumers\u2019 Union.&nbsp; Christine Cryne remembers him as being very committed to fair and well run beer judging and that he helped set the standards for EBCU beer competitions. &nbsp;Above all, he was good company.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jos was one of the sizeable contingent of European beer aficionados who regularly came to London every August to work on the Bi\u00e8re Sans Fronti\u00e8res bars at the Great British&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5600,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tribute"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/londondrinker.camra.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5597","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=5597"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/londondrinker.camra.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5597\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5604,"href":"https:\/\/londondrinker.camra.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5597\/revisions\/5604"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/londondrinker.camra.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/londondrinker.camra.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/londondrinker.camra.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/londondrinker.camra.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}