At the hop industry's annual challenge 2004 inviting brewers to produce beers which utilise English hops to best effect, Harveys have taken the Gold Award in two of the three categories. Armada Ale was the outright winner from twenty-two entries in the challenge to produce a balanced beer with a good hop character using one old and one new hop variety. It had been brewed using Fuggles and a new 'dwarf' variety of hop, TA200.

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