NORWICH, UK – The winners for the final round of the 2021 World Beer Awards have been announced, and for the first time, Canadian breweries took the highest number of World’s Best awards in the competition.
As noted by beer writer and World Beer Awards judge Stephen Beaumont on Twitter:
Over 96 styles grouped in 10 categories, Canada won 17 World’s Best awards! That was more than any other country — 5 more than Germany or Belgium, 10 more than the UK, and a dozen more than the US.
The full list of World’s Best winners from Canada includes:
World’s Best Flavoured Fruit & Vegetable – Microbrasserie Moulin 7 Grisette Framboise
World’s Best Flavoured Herb & Spice – Bad Tattoo Brewing Moscow Mule
World’s Best Flavoured Smoke – Unibroue Raftman
World’s Best IPA Milkshake/New England – Cameron’s Brewing Cruising Through The Galaxy
World’s Best IPA Specialty – Lagabière Ta Plus Meilleure
World’s Best Lager Czech-style Pale – Thornbury Pickup No. 26 Pilsner
World’s Best No & Low Alcohol Sour & Wild – Microbrasserie Le Bockale Aurora
World’s Best Pale Bitter up to 4.5% – La Voie Maltee L’ambiguë
World’s Best Pale Cream Ale – Mt Begbie Brewing Begbie Cream Ale
World’s Best Hazy Pale Ale – Stanley Park Brewing Waypoint Hazy Pale Ale
World’s Best Framboise – Microbrasserie La Souche Franc-Bois d’Hiver
World’s Best Gose – Microbrasserie La Souche Gose vie Sale
World’s Best Kriek – Microbrasserie Le Trou du Diable Le Coq
World’s Best Lambic – Indie Alehouse 10-4-20 (also won overall World’s Best Sour & Wild Beer category)
World’s Best Strong Porter – Les Trois Mousquetaires Porter Baltique
World’s Best Sweet Stout – Indie Alehouse Double Dutch
World’s Best Strong Wheat Beer – Unibroue Don de Dieu
For more details, see the full list of winners for 2021 on the World Beer Awards website.
Source & Photo: World Beer Awards