{"id":1664,"date":"2009-08-10T20:19:41","date_gmt":"2009-08-11T00:19:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.2beerguys.com\/blog\/2009\/08\/10\/cambridge-brewing-company-wins-gold-at-world-competition\/"},"modified":"2009-08-10T20:19:41","modified_gmt":"2009-08-11T00:19:41","slug":"cambridge-brewing-company-wins-gold-at-world-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/2beerguys.com\/blog\/2009\/08\/10\/cambridge-brewing-company-wins-gold-at-world-competition\/","title":{"rendered":"Cambridge Brewing Company wins gold at World Competition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In other news, <strong>TheyEnjoyOurStout \u00e2\u20ac\u201c CBC Wins at GBBF!<\/strong><br \/>\n<em><br \/>\nas written on cambrew.com<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/2beerguys.com\/images\/cbc.jpg\" alt=\"\" align=\"right\" \/><\/p>\n<p>CBC has just been informed that we were awarded \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Overall Champion Cask-conditioned American beer\u00e2\u20ac\u009d at this year\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s 2009 Great British Beer Festival (GBBF), a celebration of cask ale hosted by England\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Campaign for Real Ale (CAMRA).The winning beer? A firkin of our beloved YouEnjoyMyStout! From the official GBBF Press Release:<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153CAMRA would like to announce the winner of the annual competition for American cask-conditioned beer held on the Bi\u00c3\u00a8res Sans Fronti\u00c3\u00a8res bar at the Great British Beer Festival.<\/p>\n<p>An international panel of judges agreed that the overall champion cask-conditioned American beer was Cambridge Brewing Company \u00e2\u20ac\u201c YouEnjoyMyStout. The head brewer is Will Meyers and the brewery is based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The beer is a 10.5% abv Imperial Stout aged for two years in previously used American oak bourbon barrels. Very full-bodied with complex notes of caramel, treacle, and espresso mingled with vanilla and tannin from the oak.<\/p>\n<p>Bi\u00c3\u00a8res Sans Fronti\u00c3\u00a8res featured a record 55 different American cask-conditioned beers in 2009 from breweries as diverse as Stone Brewery in California, Dechutes Brewery in Oregon and Victory Brewing in Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n<p>Bi\u00c3\u00a8res Sans Fronti\u00c3\u00a8res is the International bar at the Great British Beer Festival and features 300 different beers from around the world. The bar is organised by Andy Benson and staffed by over 60 volunteers from afar away as America and Japan.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>To make the victory sweeter, CBC is joined on the podium by our good friends at Brooklyn Brewery for their East India Pale Ale and Stone Brewing Company for Levitation Ale. We couldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t be more proud!<\/p>\n<p>For more information please visit the official GBBF\/CAMRA website at http:\/\/gbbf.camra.org.uk\/bsfjudging.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In other news, TheyEnjoyOurStout \u00e2\u20ac\u201c CBC Wins at GBBF! as written on cambrew.com CBC has just been informed that we were awarded \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Overall Champion Cask-conditioned American beer\u00e2\u20ac\u009d at this year\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s 2009 Great British Beer Festival (GBBF), a celebration of cask ale hosted by England\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Campaign for Real Ale (CAMRA).The winning beer? A firkin of our [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":7600,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[718,2034,717,716],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/2beerguys.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/cbc10.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/2beerguys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1664"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/2beerguys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/2beerguys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/2beerguys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/2beerguys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1664"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/2beerguys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1664\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/2beerguys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/2beerguys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/2beerguys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/2beerguys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}