Awards received by Harveys since 1952

Any of these 57 accolades would be considered a major award by any brewer. Not listed are the many prizes for beermats/labels or the countless local beer festival rosettes which are also cherished by the company. The 13 most pre-eminent championship titles are marked in gold.

2009

Harveys Head Brewer, Miles Jenner wins Brewer of the Year award from the British Guild of Beer Writers annual awards dinner in London.

International Beer Challenge. Prince of Denmark outright winner in the Stout and Porter class.
Bill Brewer outright winner of the Low alcohol/No alcohol class.
Our two barley wines, Elizabethan and Christmas Ale received Silver and Bronze respectively.

Best Regional Cask Beer Brand in the South East.
Voted by 10,000 licensees in the Morning Advertiser.

World Beer Awards: Harveys dark beers win four prizes. The Imperial Extra Double Stout, Old Ale and Lewes Castle Brown Ale were all judged best of their style and received Style Trophies. Additionally, the Old Ale was deemed to be the 'World's Best Standard Dark Beer'.

Harveys of Lewes is voted 'Best Sussex Drink Producer of the Year' at the Taste of Sussex Awards

2008

World Beer Awards. Lewes Castle Brown Ale receives the accolade World's Best Dark Beer'

Old Ale is awarded 'World's Best Mild' in the same Competition

Christmas Ale and Prince of Denmark (a bottled commemorative) are both listed in the world's top 50 beers

2007

Harveys Best Bitter is voted "the Favourite beer in South & South East England" by a public ballot in the Nation's pubs conducted by Cask Marque & the Daily Telegraph.

The same beer is voted as the Runner-up in the London area

2006

CAMRA Great British Beer Festival at Earls Court

Champion Best Bitter - (2nd consecutive year)

2005

CAMRA Great British Beer Festival at Olympia

Champion Best Bitter

2004

Harveys wins the S.E.D.A (South East England Development Agency) Sustainable Business Award. (The 'Greenest' Business between Oxford & Dover)

Blue Label wins Gold at the Bottlers Institute Competition and

Christmas Ale wins Silver.

Armada Ale wins the Beauty of Hops Competition.

Copperwheat wins 'Assertively Hopped Wheat Beer Class' in Beauty of Hops Competition.

Blue Label wins 1st prize inBBI awards.

Christmas Ale wins 2nd prize at BBI Awards.

2003

Copperwheat wins bronze medal in the British Style category at SIBA's Wheat Beer challenge.

Elizabethan Ale wins Association of Bottled Beer Collectors Jubilee prize Blue Label & Old Ale win 1st and 2nd prize at the 1st Eastbourne Beer Festival.

2002

Bonfire Boy wins 'Ultimate Beer with BBQs' in National Hop Association and the Horticultural Research International Competition.

The International Beer and Cider Competition.

Imperial Extra Double Stout wins Gold Award in the Stout class
Porter wins Silver Medal in the Cask Dark Beer Class two.
Tom Paine wins Silver Medal in the Cask Conditioned Ale Class two

2001

Copperwheat is the Runner up at the SIBA Wheat Beer Challenge.

Imperial Extra Double Stout wins Silver Medal at the International Beer and Cider Competition.

2000

Christmas Ale wins Silver Medal at the BBI Awards.

1999

Armada Ale wins Silver Medal at the Great British Beer Festival.

Porter wins the Ultimate Pizza Beer contest at the Beauty Of Hops English Ale Awards.

1998

Dark Mild wins Bronze Medal at the Great British Beer Festival.

Old Ale wins Silver Medal in the BII Awards.

Blue Label wins Gold Medal at the BII Awards.

Sussex Stout wins Bronze Medal at the CAMRA Champion Beer Of Britain Awards.

1997

Dark Mild wins Silver Medal at the Great British Beer Festival.

1996

Elizabethan wins Bronze Medal at the International Beer And Cider Competition.

Blue label wins Bronze Medal in the International Beer And Cider Competition.

Harveys win the Green Business Award in the Sussex Business Awards.

1995

Draught Porter wins Gold in its section at the Great British Beer Festival.

Draught Porter wins Championship Runner Up at the Great British Beer Festival.

Liberation Ale wins Bronze Medal at International Beer And Cider Competition.

India Pale Ale wins Gold Medal at the International Beer And Cider Competition.

1993

Tom Paine wins Silver Medal at the BBI Awards.

1992

Christmas Ale wins Silver Medal at the Great British Beer Festival.

1990

Armada Ale wins Gold Medal in the Draught Pale Ale awards at the Great British Beer Festival.

Bill Brewer wins Bronze at the Brewex Burton On Trent.

Sweet Sussex Stout wins Silver Medal at Brewex Burton On Trent.

1980

Draught Best Bitter wins Gold at Brewex.

1976

Sussex Keg Bitter wins Bronze Medal at Brewex.

Blue Label wins Gold Medal at Brewex.

1972

Elizabethan Ale wins 3rd Prize Diploma at Brewex.

Blue Label wins 2nd Prize at Brewex.

Exhibition Brown wins 1st Prize at Brewex.

1968

Sussex Stout wins 3rd Prize Diploma at Brewex.

Draught XXXX wins 2nd prize at Brewex.

Draught Elizabethan wins 3rd Prize Diploma at Brewex.

1964

Elizabethan Ale wins the Championship Gold Medal at Brewex.

Exhibition Brown Ale wins 2nd prize at Brewex.

Draught XXXX (Old Ale) wins 1st Prize at Brewex.

1952

Draught XXXX (Old Ale) wins Silver Medal (1st Prize) at Brewex.