Leap Beer: When you go to the bar intending to have just one beer and end up drinking four. e.g. Fred looks up from his empty glass to see his best pal walk in, "I guess this is gonna be a Leap Beer."
Awards
Congratulations to everyone who entered, everyone who won and Harrington's Breweries for taking out the Champion Brewery in New Zealand title in the Sutton Group Brewers Guild of New Zealand Awards 2012.
Firstly, Thanks to all our judges, led by Brian Watson.
ORGANISER / BREWERS GUILD LIAISON
Craig Bowen (NZ)
HEAD STEWARD
Helen Matthews (NZ)
JUDGES
| Richard Emerson (NZ) | Leon Mickelson (China) |
| Colin Page (Singapore) | Mark White (NZ) |
| Dave Nicholls (NZ) | Leon Dawson (NZ) |
| Lachie MacBean (Australia) | Shane Morley (NZ) |
| Jayne Lewis (Australia) | Geoff Griggs (NZ) |
| Tracy Banner (NZ) | Ian Kingham (Australia) |
| Søren Eriksen (NZ) | Dave Bonighton (Australia) |
| Warren Pawsey (NZ) | Kelly Ryan (NZ) |
TRAINEE JUDGES
| Matt Thompson | Tammy Vitakangas |
| Wendy Roigard | Sean Harris |
| Brendan Bransgrove |
MEDIA JUDGES
Head Judge: Russell Brown (Public Address)
Simon Morton (This Way Up)
Richard Scott (This Way Up)
James Smith (The Crafty Pint)
STEWARDS
| Heather McClean | Arron Cox |
| Cameron Jamieson | Luke Larsen |
| Elena Norris | Katie Ward |
| Justin Maher | Jane McBreen |
| Steph Coutts | Braden Rawinlson |
| Ryan McArthur | Kieran Rawlinson |
| Joshua Cummings | Paul Harrison |
| Chris Symonds |
We'd also like to acknowledge and thank our event organisers Dean and Lu from Convention Management NZ; our host Te Radar; all the volunteers - and many from SOBA - thanks again; Fork and Brewer for hosting our Mashing In launch night; and all who turned up and had a ball and Wellington for being a great place to host an Awards evening.
Thanks also to our sponsors, without whom we couldn't put on such an amazing evening, led by our naming sponsors Sutton Group.
| Sutton Group | Endeavour Glass |
| New Zealand Hops | Weyermann |
| O-I | Plant and Food |
| Cryer Malt | Zymus |
| Gladfield | Farra |
| Pall | Leading Label |
| Orica | Beer and Brewer |
| ENZAFOODS | PBT |
| Beervana | Labelmakers |
| DB |
The Full Details of the Trophy Winners are below:
New Zealand Champion Brewery
Harrington's Breweries
Champion International Brewery
Boston Beer Co
European Lager Styles
Wigram Brewing Company
Munchner Dunkel
International Lager Styles
Tuatara Brewing Company
Tuatara Pilsner
British Ale Styles
Emerson's Brewery
Regional Best Bitter
Other European Ale Styles
Golden Bear Brewing
Pirate Peach Saison
US Ale Styles
Liberty Brewing Co
Yakima Monster
International Ale Styles
ParrotDog
BitterBitch
Stout & Porter Styles
Wigram Brewing Company
The Czar
Wheat & Other Grain Styles
Tuatara Brewing Co Ltd
Tuatara Hefe
Flavoured & Aged Styles (incl. Fruit/Spice/Herb/ Honey/Smoke)
Garage Project
Dark Arts
New Zealand Specific Styles
Boundary Road Brewery
NZ Pure
Specialty, Experimental, Aged, Barrel & Wood-Aged Styles
8 Wired Brewing
Grand Cru 2011
Cider & Perry Styles
Bulmer Harvest
Harvest Pear Cider
Cask Conditioned
Townshend Brewery
HM’s Black Strap Porter
Packaging
Tuatara Brewing Company
Tuatara Range
Festive Brew
Garage Project
Ziggy’s Carrot Cake
Morton Coutts Trophy for Innovation
James (Jim) Pollitt
Brewers Guild New Zealand Beer Writer of the Year 2012
Phil Cook
Media & Marketing
There's been a good deal of media coverage which is great to see and we encourage all breweries who won access and use the official 2012 marketing materials.
We have created a page on the Guild site that contains all Awards marketing materials.
Access is by password only which is available on request.
We would remind all Members of the terms of use of these graphics, which was a condition of entry.
Photography
Jed Soane (The Beer Project) has provided the following links to two awards galleries:
These will be available in print resolution on request in the following days.
Certificates
All winners will receive certificates over the coming weeks and at that time digital copies will also be available on request.
All requests are to be made to media@brewersguild.org.nz
Don't Forget
Full details of all the Gold, Silver and Bronze medals and all awards can be downloaded by clicking here.
