tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2558050635605413616.post6460227607321936798..comments2024-02-29T11:54:28.419+00:00Comments on Ed's Beer Site: The best Old Ale in BritainEdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13844169940650659196noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2558050635605413616.post-64225559821411399402016-02-23T22:39:06.762+00:002016-02-23T22:39:06.762+00:00Thanks, that explains it better. I wonder if this ...Thanks, that explains it better. I wonder if this means they'll want Snow Top in August?Edhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13844169940650659196noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2558050635605413616.post-15414309549419205962016-02-22T18:16:59.922+00:002016-02-22T18:16:59.922+00:00It's not so much hush-hush as just well public...It's not so much hush-hush as just well publicised or explained. Like most of what CAMRA does.<br /><br />Regional beers are nominated by members using an online system. Any member can do this for beers in their region, and the info on how to do it is circulated via email generally. The top 10 or so per-"style" are put up against each other via tasting panels at beer festivals. I.e. my last fest did the East Anglia stout & porter competition.<br /><br />This regional system is pretty crap really. I've never seen stats on how many folk actually do nominations but I expect it is a select few who know what's going on. And then not all beers are in the system. So it tends to be a usual-suspects sort of competition and, I suspect, the die easily loaded by breweries clued up on how it works. Branch officers can take nominations from less teched up members and enter them on their behalf, I've never seen a branch actively promoting this at all though.<br /><br />Regional winners for each "style" make it to GBBF, plus the winners of the NWAF. I believe entry to the GBBF CBOB requires that you can supply 4x kils of the beer from the same gyle... but I'm not sure. (That's a general GBBF supply rule.)<br /><br />That's what my vague perception of the process is from having been involved at some stages of it.Yvannoreply@blogger.com