World Beer Awards 2025 Winners Revealed
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On Wednesday 13 August, the World Beer Awards 2025 winners were announced at The Great Hospital in Norwich, UK. This event, one of the World Drinks Awards’ biggest competitions, saw an increased volume of entries this year! Amidst a growing global beer industry, recognising excellence remains the awards’ number one priority. With an increasing number of brewers joining us each year, we continue to taste and applaud a broad range of new products.
The first round of the World Beer Awards saw style winners from each country awarded the title of Country Winner. The second round saw those winners in their chosen style go on to compete against other countries in the same style of beer. The Style winners of the second round then went on to compete for the World’s Best title in each category.
Winners such as Buckskin Kolsch for World’s Best Pale Beer, Opa Bier Hop Lager for World’s Best Lager, and Daisen B Beer Barley Wine for World’s Best Dark Beer impressed our judges throughout this competition and earned them the title of World’s Best for their style category. To see the full list of World’s Best winners for 2025, please see below.
Those who entered the awards were also encouraged to submit entries for the Icons of Beer Awards — an award that aims to celebrate the achievements of hard-working individuals throughout the industry. Brewers, brand ambassadors, visitor centre managers, and more are all welcome to put themselves forward for this award. This award is designed to celebrate the achievements of all those who deliver exceptional work in the beer industry.
Pete Brown, global chair of judges for the awards, commented: “We had over 3000 entries for this year’s awards. And while I obviously didn’t get to taste them all myself, going by how happy our judges have been, the standard must have been very high! The scope of entries was truly worldwide, as was our panel of judges. Even when you think you know a lot about beer, the joy of this competition is that you always discover something new.”
Anita Ujszaszi, director of the World Beer Awards, added: “As we expected, this year’s competition has been met with a very welcomed, huge number of entries! Knowing that beer makers from all over the world continuously want to bring us their very best products for our judges to taste is a real honour. The collective wisdom of our judges is a very unique thing to experience in this industry — it’s an honour to help showcase it!”
World’s Best Beers
Veldensteiner
Hefe Weißbier Alkoholfrei
No & Low Alcohol
Retour De Feu
Bière Blonde
Flavoured Beer
Brouwerij Noordt
Simcoe Porter
Stout & Porter
Sosab
Flemish Red Ale Xii
Sour & Wild Beer
Buckskin
Kolsch
Pale Beer
Hiddenseer
Weizen
Wheat Beer
Wildshut
Bio-perlage
Speciality Beer
Opa Bier
Hop Lager
Lager
Daisen G Beer
Barley Wine
Dark Beer
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Wolf Gang
IPA
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