Liquorland BrewNZ Awards 2010 Winners Announced

Submitted by tim.deflux on Thu, 26 Aug 2010 11:39am

The Liquorland BrewNZ Beer Award winners have been announced and we'd like to congratulate all winners, including Champion Brewery DB Breweries.

This year saw a record number of entrants - 446 entries were received, up from 348 entries last year - and the standard across the board was incredibly high. 

TO VIEW THE FULL CATALOGUE OF RESULTS CLICK HERE.

In its ninth year, the Awards are run by the Brewers Guild of New Zealand, which represents the majority of New Zealand brewers.

Chief Judge, David Logsdon from the USA, says that the 2010 BrewNZ Beer Awards hosted the largest field of entries ever, surpassing last year’s competitions by a great margin.  “Brewers from around the world competed with the best of New Zealand beers in a world class challenge.  The results show that New Zealand stands tall amongst the best beers in the world.”

A asummary of the Trophy Winners for 2010 are as follows:

CLASS TROPHY WINNER & WINNING BEER
Class A: New Zealand Champion Brewery DB Breweries
Class B: Champion International Brewery Boston Beer Company
Class C: European Lager Styles DB Breweries - Monteith’s Black
Class D: International Lager Styles The Croucher Brewing Company - Pilsner
Class E: European Ale Styles Steam Brewing Company - Cock & Bull Fuggles
Class F: New Zealand, US & International Ale Styles Steam Brewing Company - Cock & Bull Monks Habit
Class G: Stout and Porter Styles Three Boys Brewery - Three Boys Oyster Stout
Class H: Wheat and Other Grain Styles Emerson’s Brewery - Emerson’s Dunkelweiss
Class I: Flavoured & Aged Styles (incl. Fruit/Spice/Herb/ Honey/Smoke) 8 Wired Brewing - The Big Smoke
Class J: New Zealand Draught DB Breweries – Tui
Class K: New Zealand Lager & Premium Lager Styles DB Breweries - Tui Blonde
Class L: Reduced Alcohol, Reduced Carbohydrate & Gluten-free Styles DB Breweries - Export 33
Class M: Specialty, Experimental, Aged, Barrel & Wood-Aged Styles Epic Brewing Company – NZ - Epic Barrel Aged IPA
Class N: Cider and Perry Styles Bulmer Harvest Cidery (Foster’s NZ Ltd) - Bulmers Original Pear Cider (Perry)
Class O: Packaging Aotearoa Breweries NZ Ltd – Mata
Class P: Festive Brew Three Boys Brewery - Three Boys Pineapple Lump Porter
Class Q: Cask Conditioned The Twisted Hop – Nokabollokov
Morton Coutts Trophy for Innovation Independent Liquor NZ Ltd

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