Winners in 2023 NZ Beer Awards
The winners in the 2023 New Zealand Beer Awards have been announced, with Warkworth brewery 8-Wired named Overall Champion at the annual industry event.
In its 17th year, the New Zealand Beer Awards, managed by the Brewers Guild of New Zealand, recognises excellence in beer as well as other accolades across New Zealand’s brewing industry. The competition is open to commercial brewers of all production sizes in New Zealand.
The Guild says that this year’s awards received 825 entries from 80 entrants, which was an almost identical number to last year’s event.
The biggest category in 2023 was Juicy / Hazy with 135 entries, followed by NZ Styles with 103. The success rate at gaining a medal in the 2023 competition was 69%, which was an 11% increase from 2022.
CHAMPION TROPHIES - 2023 NZ BEER AWARDS
Overall Champion New Zealand Brewing Company 8 Wired Brewing (Warkworth)
Champion New Zealand Beer Wild Feijoa 2022, 8 Wired Brewing
Champion Large New Zealand Brewery Garage Project (Wgtn)
Champion Medium New Zealand Brewery Behemoth Brewing Company Ltd (Akld)
Champion Small New Zealand Brewery Shining Peak Brewing (New Plymouth)
Champion Micro New Zealand Brewery Workshop Brewing (Raglan)
Champion New Zealand Manufacturer bStudio (Napier)
Champion International Brewery Ballast Point Brewing Company (USA)
TROPHY WINNERS - 2023 NZ BEER AWARDS
INTERNATIONAL LAGER - Longboarder Lager, McLeod’s Brewery
EUROPEAN ALE - Chance, Luck & Magic 2020, Garage Project
NZ STYLES - Clayton F#$%ing Hops NZ IPA, Behemoth Brewing Company Ltd.
AMBER/ DARK ALE - Red IPA, Parrotdog
AMBER / DARK LAGER - Lock Bock Barrel, Sprig + Fern Brewing Co
INTERNATIONAL PALE ALE - Sawmill XPA, Sawmill Brewery
BRITISH ALE - Emerson’s Old 95, The Emerson Brewing Company
INDIA PALE ALE - Terrible Lizards, Brave Brewing Co
JUICY / HAZY - Music City Hazy IPA, Behemoth Brewing Company Ltd.
SPECIALITY AND EXPERIMENTAL - Solera, Deep Creek Brewing
STOUT & PORTER - Unforgiven Porter, Burkes Brewing Co
NO & REDUCED ALCOHOL - Little Mighty, Beer Baroness Brewing Company
WHEAT & OTHER GRAIN - Good George Hefe Mulligan, Good George Brewing
BARREL & WOOD AGED - Russet, Wilderness Brewing
FRUIT & FLAVOURED - Wild Feijoa 2022, 8 Wired Brewing
INDUSTRY AWARD WINNERS
BEER TOURISM AWARD Rhyme & Reason, Wanaka
PACKAGING AWARD Waitoa Beer
BREWING SUSTAINABILITY AWARD Sawmill Brewing Co.
MORTON COUTTS AWARD FOR INNOVATION Simon Ross - MicroBrewTech
W: Full results are available at brewersguild.org.nz
