The International Brewing Awards, previously known as the Brewing Industry International Awards (BIIA), is a biannual

brewing Brewing is the production of beer by steeping a starch source (commonly cereal grains, the most popular of which is barley) in water and #Fermenting, fermenting the resulting sweet liquid with Yeast#Beer, yeast. It may be done in a brewery ...

competition with its origins dating to 1886. It is believed to be the oldest international brewing competition in the world. The Awards are owned and organised by Brewing Technology Services Ltd (BTS). Only beers that pay to enter (£192 per entry as of November 2015) are judged. The Awards are known by some as the "Brewing Oscars" and are judged only by commercially practising brewers. The 2013 competition took place 13–15 February in

Burton upon Trent Burton upon Trent, also known as Burton-on-Trent or simply Burton, is a market town in the borough of East Staffordshire in the county of Staffordshire, England, close to the border with Derbyshire. In United Kingdom Census 2011, 2011, it had a ...

. New for the 2013 competition was a cider category, comprising two classifications - for

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and cider incorporating other fruit, juices or flavours. Also new is a Special Hop Beer class within the Speciality Beer category, designed for beers with a “uniquely innovative or intense hop character”. The Awards were presented on 24 April 2013 at

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. In 2015 bronze, silver and gold medal winners were announced after three days of judging at the National Brewery Centre in Burton-upon-Trent, where a panel of 43 judges assessed close to 1,000 beers and ciders submitted from 50 countries. There were 39 categories, each with up to three medals, and ten additional trophies for winners of wider categories. The International Brewing Awards 2019 Champion's Trophy Winners * Small Pack Lager Competition Champion's Trophy Winner - Firestone Walker Brewing Co, Firestone Lager * Small Pack Ale Competition Champion's Trophy Winner -

Bentspoke Brewing Co Bentspoke Brewing Co is a Canberra-based brewing company initially founded as a Brewpub in 2014 by brewers Richard Watkins and Tracy Margrain. Bentspoke now supports both a Brewpub in the central Canberra suburb of Braddon, and a commercial ...

, Barley Griffin * Keg Lager Competition Champion's Trophy Winner - Fuller, Smith & Turner Plc, Frontier * Keg Ale Competition Champion's Trophy Winner - Purity Brewing Company, Longhorn IPA * Non & Low Alcohol Competition Champion's Trophy Winner - Big Drop Brewing Co, Citra Four Hop Pale Ale – Small Pack * Dark Beer Competition Champion's Trophy Winner -

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, Milk Stout – Small Pack * Strong Beer Competition Champion's Trophy Winner -

St Austell Brewery St Austell Brewery is a brewery founded in 1851 by Walter Hicks in St Austell, Cornwall, England. History Originally named ''Walter Hicks & Co: brewers and wine merchants'', the brewery company was renamed St Austell Brewery and significa ...

, Black Square Small Pack * Speciality Beer Competition Champion's Trophy Winner -

Alken-Maes Alken-Maes is a Belgian brewery created out of the 1988 merger of two small breweries, Maes located at Kontich-Waarloos and Cristal-Alken located at Alken. It was bought by Scottish & Newcastle in 2000, who were taken over by Carlsberg and H ...

, Mort Subite Botanic Lambic Small Pack * Cask Conditioned Ale Competition Champion's Trophy Winner - The Wimbledon Brewery Company, Wimbledon Copper Leaf The International Brewing Awards Champions 2017 * Champion Cask Ale - Encore: Lacons Brewery, Great Yarmouth, UK * Champion Dark Beer - Kala Black IPA: Saltaire Brewery, Shipley, UK * Champion Keg Ale - Maltings Irish Ale: Sullivan’s Brewing Company, Kilkenny, Ireland * Champion Keg Lager - Frontier: Fuller Smith & Turner, London, UK * Champion Smallpack Ale - Easy Jack: Firestone Walker Brewing Company, California, USA * Champion Smallpack Lager - Pils Unfiltered Lager: Camden Town Brewery, London, UK * Champion Speciality Beer - Coolship Fruit: Elgood’s Brewery, Wisbech, UK * Champion Strong Beer - Rurik Russian Imperial Stout: The Galbraith Brewing Co, Auckland, New Zealand * Non and Low Alcohol Beer - Birell: Plzenský Prazdroj a.s, Nošovice, Czech Rebublic * The International Cider Awards Champion 2017 - Cidre Demi-Sec: Zeffer Cider Co., Auckland, New Zealand The International Brewing Awards Champions 2015 * Champion Smallpack Lager – Riegele Feines Urhell, Brauhaus Riegele, Augsburg, Germany. * Champion Keg Lager – Clonmel 1650 Irish Lager, C&C Ireland, Clonmel, Ireland. * Champion Smallpack Ale – Armory XPA, Deschutes Brewery Inc., Oregon, USA. * Champion Keg Ale – Revisionist Rye Pale Ale, Marston’s PLC, Wolverhampton, UK. * Champion Non and Low Alcohol Beer – Manns Brown Ale, Marston’s PLC, Burton, UK. * Champion Dark Beer – Black Butte Porter, Deschutes Brewery Inc., Oregon, USA. * Champion Strong Beer – Brugse Zot Dubbel, Brouwerij De Halve Maan, Bruges, Belgium. * Champion Speciality Beer - Red Chair NWPA, Deschutes Brewery Inc., Oregon, USA. * Champion Cask Conditioned Ale - Green Devil IPA, Oakham Ales, Peterborough, UK. * Champion Cider – Traditional Dry Cider, Mac Ivors Cider Co., County Armagh, Northern Ireland.

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