• Adnams Innovation
• Alhambra Reserva 1925
• Alltech Kentucky Light
• Arcobrau Pils
• Badger Harvester's Ale
• Baird Brewing The Carpenter's Mikan Ale
• Baltika No6 Porter
• Black Sheep Yorkshire Square Ale
• Brasserie de Brunehaut S.A. Monst St Aubert
• Brasserie de Brunehaut S.A. St Martin Dark
• Brasserie du Bocq Blanche de Namur
• Brasserie du Bocq Gauloise Amber
• Brasserie St. Feuillien Saison
• Brasserie St. Feuillien Triple
• BrewDog Zeitgeist
• Brouwerij De Halve Maan Brugse Zot Blond
• Brouwerij De Halve Maan Brugse Zot Dubbel Bruin
• Caledonian Great Scot
• Cameron's Lager
• Carlow Leann Follain
• Cervecería Mexicana Red Pig
• Chatoe Rogue Dirtoir Black Lager
• Clausthaler Classic
• Coopers Vintage Ale 2008
• Cruzcampo Gran Reserva
• DAB Original
• Dark Star Espresso
• Delirium Tremens
• Deschutes Cinder Cone Red
• Deschutes Hop Henge
• Deschutes Inversion IPA
• Deschutes Mirror Pond Pale Ale
• Deschutes The Abyss
• Deschutes The Dissident
• Distinguished Brands International Fruli Strawberry Beer
• Dragon Stout
• Fuller's 1845
• Fuller's London Porter
• Fuller's London Pride
• Fyne Ales Avalanche
• Fyne Ales Vital Spark
• Great Western Light
• Greene King Abbot Reserve
• Greene King Old Crafty Hen
• Harvey's Imperial Extra Double Stout
• Harvey's Lewes Castle Brown Ale
• Harvey's Old Ale
• Harviestoun Old Engine Oil
• Het Anker Gouden Carolus Classic
• Hijos de Rivera SA 1906 Reserva Especial
• Honda Sangyou Company Preston Ale Stout (Irish Ale)
• Hook Norton Double Stout
• Hook Norton Hooky Gold
• Hook Norton Old Hooky
• Innis & Gunn Canadian Cask
• Ise Kadoya Brown Ale
• Ise Kadoya Stout
• Jihomoravske Havban
• Konig Ludwig Hell
• Konig Ludwig Kaltenberg Ritterbock
• Koshihikari Echigo Beer
• Krusovice Cerne
• Krusovice Imperial
• Liefmans Kriek
• Lovibonds Gold Reserve
• Lovibonds Henley Dark
• Malheur 10
• Meantime London Pale Ale
• Meantime London Porter
• Minoh Beer Stout
• Oud Beersel Bersalis
• Oud Beersel Oude Gueuze
• Oud Beersel Oude Kriek
• Oxfordshire Pride of Oxford
• Primator Exklusiv 16%
• Primator Polotmavy 13%
• Primator Premium
• Primator Premium Dark
• Primator Stout
• Purity Pure UBU
• Radegast Premium
• Redoak Baltic Porter
• Redoak Bitter
• Redoak Framboise Frament
• Redoak IPA
• Redoak Rauch
• Robinson's Old Tom
• Rogue Chocolate Stout
• Rogue Dry Hopped Red
• Rogue I2PA
• Rogue Juniper Pale Ale
• Rogue Smoke Ale
• SA Damm Estrella Damm Apta Para Celiacos
• SA Damm Voll Damm
• Samuel Adams Black Lager
• Samuel Adams Boston Lager
• Samuel Adams Chocolate Bock
• Samuel Adams Double Bock
• Samuel Adams Honey Porter
• Samuel Adams Imperial White Ale
• Samuel Adams Irish Red
• Samuel Adams Light
• Schlappeseppel Schlappeseppel Special
• Sharp's 3
• Sharp's 4
• Sharp's Chalky's Bark
• Sharp's Chalky's Bite
• Sharp's Massive Ale
• Sharp's Single Brew Reserve 2010
• Shepherd Neame Kingfisher
• St Austell Admiral's Ale
• Swan Lake Amber Swan Ale
• Thornbridge Bracia
• Thornbridge Halcyon
• Waldhaus Diplom Pils
• Weihenstephaner Hefeweissbier Dunkel
• Wickwar Station Porter
• Woodforde's Nog
• Wye Valley Butty Bach
• Wye Valley Dorothy Goodbody's Country Ale

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.

Some styles are easily defined, we all recognise barley wines or IPAs for example, whereas some beers call themselves simply ‘pale ales’ and nothing more. It’s not so simple to say that a 5.4% ABV beer is ‘standard’ but a 5.5% beer is ‘strong,’ it depends entirely on personal preference, flavour, the country of origin, or other examples in the style.

This can be unbelievably frustrating when you’re trying to create a simple structure for something like the World Beer Awards. It’s like trying to catch smoke in a net. But at the same time it is what makes beer so wonderful, other drinks are more unyielding in their definitions – wine or whisky for example – but beer is a living thing, constantly changing, with a million different combinations of ingredient and process.

So no letters, please, about ale yeasts being used in cold fermentation or about why this standard pale ale is stronger than this strong pale ale Please allow us any little inconsistencies. Ultimately, what we’re trying to do is to wheedle out the world’s finest beers, and every one of the beers on the following pages deserves this recognition.

So grab a glass and join us in celebration of beer, in all its wonderful and endlessly frustrating variety.

World’s Best Lager Waldhaus Diplom Pils	World’s Best Ale Robinson's Old Tom
World’s Best Stout/Porter Baltika No6 Porter	World’s Best Wheat Beer Brasserie du Bocq Blanche de Namur
World’s Best Speciality Beer Dark Star Espresso

Category Winners

Style Trophies