ICBI Beer of the Year
ICBI Beer of The Year 2022
The Winners Are in!!
This is a different kind of competition, where small local independent craft brewers in Ireland submit their beer (unmarked and unidentified) to their peers in the microbrewing sector, who have also entered, for judging.
2022 is the second annual competition and breweries have submitted one beer of any style each. The submitted beer should be commercially available for most of the year.
We're really pleased to have created this unique competition, judged by breweries, we reckon all the breweries will have a good time rating and judging too!!
ICBI Members submit their beers unbranded and unmarked and they are sent out to all entrants to judge using BCJP Guidelines. Participants receive a scoring sheet which lists just the basic style of the beer so that they can taste in the appropriate order.
Winners 2022
We're thrilled to announce #ICBIBeerOfTheYear Winners for 2022!
Gold Medal went to Lough Gill Brewing Co. for their “Spear” Imperial Oatmeal Stout. Followed by Lineman for their "Astral Grains" Export Stout and then Dead Centre for their "Common Elements" Extra Pale Ale.
This is a unique competition, where small local independent craft brewers in Ireland submit their beer (unmarked and unidentified) to their peers in the microbrewing sector, who have also entered, for judging.
This year breweries have submitted one beer of any style each - we've asked that the beers submitted be available on the market for most of the year so that the beers can be sought out easily!
We're really pleased to have created this proper competition, judged by breweries.
We reckon all the breweries had a good time rating and judging too!
Press Picks 2022
For 2022, we invited a small selection of experts and beer writers to judge a seperate press pick competition for #ICBIBeerOfTheYear
From aggregated scores:
First pick went to the same beer as the gold medal in the main brewery judged competition - Lough Gill Brewing Co. for their “Spear” Imperial Oatmeal Stout.
Second Pick was Canvas "Sunday Cuddle" Belgian Quadruppel.
Third Pick was Lineman "Astral Grains" Export Stout (this year's Silver in main Competition).
Fourth Pick was Porterhouse "Around The Clock 3" Imperial Stout (ATC 1 was last year's overall winner).
Fifth pick went to Dungarvan Brewing Co. Coffee and Oatmeal Stout.
Massive thanks to our judges Aoife Carrigy, John Wilson, Leslie Williams, John Duffy & Judith Boyle.
ICBI Beer of the Year 2021
ICBI Members submitted their beers unbranded and unmarked and they were sent out to all entrants to judge using BCJP Guidelines. Participants received a scoring sheet which listed just the basic style of the beer.
Excited to announce #ICBIBeerOfTheYear Winners.
Gold Medal went to Porterhouse Brew Co. for their “Round the Clock” Imperial stout. Followed by Lineman for their Astral Grains Stout and then Kinnegar for their Thumper double IPA.
This is a really unique new competition, where small local independent craft brewers in Ireland submitted their beer (unmarked and unidentified) to their peers in the microbrewing sector, who have also entered, for judging.
This year breweries have submitted one beer of any style each...
We're really pleased to have created this proper competition, judged by breweries.
We reckon all the breweries had a good time rating and judging too!!