World Beer Awards - The Best Beers in the World

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

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World Beer Awards 2011

Welcome to the winners guide to the World Beer Awards 2011, the global awards selecting the very best internationally recognised beer styles from around the world.

Judging is blind with regional style heats held in Europe, the USA and Asia under the careful eye of a regional Chairman.

They select the style winner in each region, which is then tasted against the other regional winners to select the World’ss Best Style.

From these world winners judges can then select the World’s Best Ale, Lager, Stout & Porter and Wheat Beer. The pages of this year’s World Beer Awards guide identify winners by style and by category, we hope you enjoy this year’s findings and the fantastic range of beers they represent.

The Winners

World Beer Awards 2010

Following four rounds of judging, five bottled beers have been crowned ‘World’s Best Beers’ by the international, highly respected judging panel. Judges have now blind-tasted beers, from over five hundred entries in twenty-seven countries, in the annual World Beer Awards. Category winners and style trophies have also been named. These Awards are truly global as the ‘World’s Best’ winners in 2010 demonstrates; originating from the USA, Canada, Czech Republic, Japan and Germany. Organised by www.tastingbeers.com the competition selects, awards and promotes to consumers the best beers available internationally. For the first time this year, ‘The World’s Best Beers 2010 Book’ has been produced, which includes tasting notes on all style winners and those who have been highly recommended. The book will be available from July 2010 and available through all good bookshops, specialist beer shops and available to purchase directly from www.tastingbeers.com at the RRP of £7.95.

The international panel of judges is chaired by Roger Protz, with European chair Jeff Evans, US chair Stan Hieronymus and Japanese chair Bryan Harrell. The chairmen are supported by their panel of judges; leading beer experts Jay Brooks and Eric Warner in the US, Ben Vinken in Belgium, Sylvia Kopp in Germany, Sally Toms in the UK, and Tatsuo Aoki in Japan.

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.