{"id":386,"date":"2016-02-21T15:11:08","date_gmt":"2016-02-21T15:11:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sst.camra.org.uk\/wordpress\/?p=386"},"modified":"2016-02-21T16:30:09","modified_gmt":"2016-02-21T16:30:09","slug":"champion-winter-beer-of-britain-2016-congratulations-to-darwin-brewery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sst.camra.org.uk\/wordpress\/?p=386","title":{"rendered":"Champion Winter Beer of Britain 2016: Congratulations to Darwin Brewery"},"content":{"rendered":"

Earlier this week at the National Winter Beer Festival<\/strong> in Derby the judging of the Champion Winter Beer of Britain<\/strong> took place.<\/p>\n

Winter beers are those beers classified by CAMRA as “Porters”, “Stouts”, “Barley Wine Strong Old Ales” & “Old Ale Strong Milds”<\/em><\/p>\n

The full results are available on the CAMRA National website<\/a>\u00a0& Sunderland & South Tyneside CAMRA\u00a0are delighted to report Darwin Brewery, of Sunderland,<\/strong> were one of the eight finalists (see below) in the overall “Champion Winter Beer of Britain” competition.<\/p>\n

Darwin had reached the final “Overall Champion” competition as a winner of a Gold medal in the “Barley Wine Strong Old Ales<\/strong>” category with Extinction Ale 8.3% ABV<\/a>. Our congratulations for this achievement. Yesterday at the North East regional meeting NE Regional Director Dave Brazier was handed Darwin’s Gold certificate by a CAMRA HQ representative. So watch this space for details of the future presentation to Darwin.<\/p>\n

We would also like to take this opportunity to thank all CAMRA members who took part & voted online in the annual Champion Beer of Britain nomination process<\/strong>. It is these nominations by grass roots CAMRA members that put local beers into these competitions. If you are a member & didn’t vote last year we hope this success demonstrates a good reason to vote later this year.<\/p>\n

Put through to final judging for Champion Winter Beer of Britain 2016:
\nDarwin, Extinction Ale
\nMarble, Chocolate Marble
\nFacer’s North Star Porter
\nWibblers, Crafty Stoat
\nTring, Death or Glory
\nOld Diary, Snow Top
\nElland, 1872 Porter
\nPlain Ales, Inncognito<\/p>\n

CAMRA also announced next years 2017\u00a0National Winter Beer Festival<\/strong> will be held in Norwich.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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