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Sussex Best Bitter — full label as filed with TTB
Label as filed · tap for full resolutionPLATE Nº 26147001000919 · cleared 28 May 2026
English Pale Ale / Bitter · cleared 28 May 2026 · imported

Sussex Best Bitter

Harvey's Brewery
  1. Filedwith the TTB
  2. Cleared28 May 2026
  3. SpottedNot yet — watching

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The Weekly Docket

This filing went on record 28 May 2026, before the beer reached a shelf. Every week's new filings, read and delivered Tuesday morning.

In the register

This is the 2nd of 2 label filings we hold from Harvey's Brewery. It is one of 5 english pale ale / bitter labels approved in May 2026. It cleared 1 day after it was filed. It was brewed under contract — B. UNITED INTERNATIONAL, B. UNITED INTERNATIONAL INC. holds the permit, which is ordinary in the register and easy to miss on a shelf. It is an imported label, filed for US distribution.

Certificate of Label Approval
StyleEnglish Pale Ale / Bitter
Alcohol4%
VesselDraft
FamilyPale Ale
Serial26-919
Cleared28 May 2026
ProvenanceUS TTB COLA — the filing itself
From the label

“Label explicitly states 'BITTER' as the style designation beneath 'SUSSEX BEST'; 7.9 US GALLONS / 30 Liter keg format; brewed by Harvey's & Son (Lewes), Lewes, Sussex, United Kingdom, imported by B. United International Inc., Oxford CT 06478 — foreign producer/US importer relationship.”

Extracted from label art by hopgrail · fields verified against the filing

The house

Applicant
B. UNITED INTERNATIONAL, B. UNITED INTERNATIONAL INC.
Location
7 FOX HOLLOW RD, OXFORD, CT, 06478
Production
Contract-brewed

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A starting-point recipe from the style and the filed ABV — derived, not tasted, and the sheet says which is which.

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The hunt

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