Winners for the World Beer Awards’ Country and Style categories came from all over the globe when they were announced on Thursday, August 10. Countries represented on the podium included Cambodia, Brazil, Australia, Canada and the United Kingdom.
According to Chair of Judges, Adrian Tierney-Jones, ‘the competition is a great snapshot of the great interest in beer all around the world. I would also like to thank the judges, many of them British Guild of Beer members, who have done their work diligently and professionally’.
The final list of the category winners (World’s Best Lager, Dark, Pale, Wheat, Stout/Porter, Sour, Speciality, Flavoured) will be announced September 21.
WORLD’S BEST STYLE WINNERS
Dark Beer
American Brown Ale Edinburgh Beer Factory BUNK! Edinburgh Brown
Barley Wine Schwarzbräu Aged Bock 2012
Belgian Style Dubbel Collesi Rossa
Belgian Style Strong Samuel Adams Thirteenth Hour Stout
Black IPA White Sails Snake Island CDA
Brown Ale Jopen Bokbier
English Brown Ale Boar Brown
Mild Long Man Brewery Old Man
Oud Bruin Liefmans Goudenband
Strong Novo Brazil Cookie Muncher
Flavored Beer
Chocolate & Coffee Dama Fellas
Fruit & Vegetable Lohn Bier Catharina Sour UVA
Herb & Spice Taiwan Head Brewers Start of Autumn Tea Ale
Honey & Maple Maple Gold
Smoke Musta Lomittaja Black Saison
Spirit Gouden Carolus Cuvée van de Keizer Whisky Infused
Wood Aged Surtur 8,2
Lager
Alcohol Free Damm Free Damm
Amber / Vienna Schützengarten St. Galler Klosterbräu
Bock Bauhöfer Ulmer Maibock
Czech-stlye Pale Cisk Pilsner
Dark Hausen Bier Dunkel
Dortmunder Tazawako Beer Pilsner
German-style Pale Bauhöfer Ulmer Pilsener
Helles/Munchen Fujizakura Heights Beer Munchen Lager
Low Carb/Low Alcohol 0.1 – 2% Mica SIN
Seasonal Pyynikin Mosaic Lager
Strong Votus 003
Pale Beer
Altbier Les Trois Mousquetaires Sticke Alt
Amber Cevada Pura Irish Red ALE
Barley Wine Cameron’s Where the Buffalo Roam Barleywine
Belgian Style Ale Sunset Brew Sunset Saison
Belgian Style Blonde Leffe Blonde
Belgian Style Strong Leffe Rituel
Belgian Style Tripel Wäls Trippel
Biére De Garde / Saison Paljas Saison
Bitter 4% – 5% Ho! La! Ho! Captain Crow Extra Pale Ale
Bitter over 5% Stewart Brewing Radical Road
Bitter up to 4% Corsaire Kirke
Cream Ales Colorado Murica
Golden O Motim Hell de Janeiro
Imperial/Double IPA Man Overboard DIPA
IPA CLT India Pale Ale
Kölsch Mt Begbie Brewing High Country Kolsch
Low-Strength Big Drop Citrus Pale Ale
Pale Ale Whitefrontier Brewery Freeride World Tour
Seasonal Riviere d’Ain Thou
Session IPA McGargles Little Bangin’ Session IPA
Sour Beer
Flavoured Lambic Tilquin à l’ancienne Quetsche
Gueuze Les Trois Mousquetaires Ceci n’est pas une Gueuze
Kriek Samuel Adams American Kriek
Lambic Le Trou du Diable L’Hérisson-Brassin spécial
Sour Ale Rügener Insel-Brauerei Seepferd
Speciality Beer
Brut / Champagne Oud Beersel Bzart Lambiek
Experimental Reddot Sauvignon Ale
Gluten-free Brunehaut Triple
Rice Bossuwé Brewing Co. Betty B.
Rye Hook Norton Red Rye
Steam Maryensztadt Brewery Wunderbar13
Stout & Porter
Flavoured Stout / Porter Hideji-beer brewery Kurikuro
Imperial Stout Harvey’s Imperial Extra Double Stout
Porter Bilboquet La Corriveau
Stout Stonehead Dark Side
Strong Porter Guinness West indies Porter
Sweet/Milk/Oatmeal Stout Morena Celtica Stout
Wheat Beer
Alcohol Free Alpirsbacher Weizen Isotonisch
Bavarian Hefeweiss Hirsch Hefe Weisse
Bavarian Kristal Ketterer Ur-Weisse kristall
Belgian Style Witbier Búzios Brigitte
Dark Leavenworth Biers Boulder Bend Dunkelweizen
Strong Unibroue Don de Dieu
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Note to editors
This year the World Beer Awards saw 2000 beers entered from 400 breweries, with initial judging taking part in the USA, Canada, Germany, Brazil, Japan and the UK; on the final day of judging, nearly 100 judges from across the world took part. For more information please contact Anita Ujszaszi at Paragraph Publishing, anitau@paragraph.co.uk.