Brussels Beer Challenge 2015

Last weekend the annual Brussels Beer Challenge was held, a prestigious competition with breweries, and judges, from all over the world. Medals were awarded in several categories, making it an interesting competition because most brewers these days don’t start brewing with the intention of making for example a triple. They make what they want to make, even if it makes the beer harder to categorize. Thinking in terms of beerstyles isn’t really something that fits to way we think of beer anymore in these post-modern beer days, but the organization came up with such a wide of array of categories that most beers could find a place. And if you’re doing a competition like this, it is the way to go.

International

It is interesting to see what other countries are starting to win medals. Most medals went, as was to be expected, to the US, Germany and Belgium. The group behind this is getting larger with Italy, France, the Netherlands and Spain winning quite a few. Brazil was a pleasant surprise

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