Local Beers are World-Class, With the Hardware to Prove it

The World Beer Cup was historically a biennial event, but this year it rebranded itself as an annual competition. For comparative sake the 2021 Great American Beer Festival saw 9,680 entries. The 2022 World Beer Cup had 10,542 entries. There were 57 countries represented in this year’s competition with 2,493 breweries entering. The US entered the most beers by far (pdf), but Ireland was the country with the highest winning rate.

If you believe World Beer Cup judges, Denizens makes the best brett beer in the world (at press we were unable to confirm if Orval had been entered). Category 26, Brett Beer has 43 entries and the gold went to The Glow, from Denizens’ Silver Spring location.

The silver medal went to Saison 625, from Kros Strain Brewing Company in La Vista, NE. Interestingly, one of the founders of the brewery, Scott Strain, used to be local to the DC metro area and had produced very tasty wares (according to this reporter) as a DC Homebrewers club member. Denizens’ win is impre

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