World Beer Awards

The World Beer Awards are the annual selection of the very best beers and promote the ‘Best Beers in the World’ to consumers and trade throughout the world. Judging is blind and held in three stages with the results announced each July.

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World Beer Awards 2010

The World Beer Awards are the global awards selecting the very best internationally recognised beer styles. Organised by tastingbeers.com, this annual tasting selects, awards and promotes the 'Best Beers in the World' to consumers throughout the world.

• Entry form
• Judging
• Timetable
• Styles

World Beer Awards 2009

After five months and three separate rounds of tasting, the third annual World Beer Awards is in the bag. The results are spread out over the next eight pages for your perusal and enjoyment, and I’m sure you’ll agree that there was a very high standard of entry this year, from every corner of the globe.

The thing that strikes me increasingly with every one of these we do, is the changeable nature of beer. It’s impossible to pin down; it’s like trying to put language in a box, or fill in a government form. I mean, it’s mostly there, but try as we might to squeeze beer into these tidy parameters, there will always be a few individuals that just don’t quite fit.

World Beer Awards 2008

Roger Protz, chairman of judges, said: “ This is an exciting time for beer drinkers. More and more craft brewers throughout the world are making beers bursting with distinctive and exciting aromas and flavours. The judges have been overwhelmed by the quality of the beers entered for the competition and it has been an immensely difficult task choosing the winners. I hope that not only the winners but all the beers in the competition will gain greater awareness and will delight drinkers, especially those new to beer. ”

World Beer Awards 2007

The World’s Best Beers have been crowned by Beers of the World, the international consumer beer magazine. These four bottled beers scooped the title of ‘World’s Best’ in the final round of the annual World Beer Awards.

An international panel of judges tasted their way through hundreds of entries from the United Kingdom, Europe, the United States, Australia and beyond to find the winners of each style. These style winners then went head to head at a blind tasting event, where the UK’s top brewers selected the best beers in each category: World’s Best Standard Lager, World’s Best Premium Lager etc.