Fleurieu brews ‘best beer’ again
Smiling Samoyed Brewery has won the Best Beer in Show trophy at the Royal Adelaide Beer & Cider Awards for the second consecutive year.
As well as winning Best Beer in Show a second time, Smiling Samoyed – a boutique brewery based at Myponga – also received the top award for the Champion South Australian Beer and Dark Ale classes.
The Royal Adelaide Beer & Cider Awards were announced on the opening night of the Adelaide Beer & BBQ Festival held on the weekend at the Royal Adelaide Showground.
Chief beer judge Simon Fahey said the awards, which are run by the Royal Agricultural and Horticultural Society of South Australia, give recognition to Australia’s burgeoning $7 billion beer and cider industry.
“This year’s awards attracted 196 entries from 42 brewers of all sizes and from four states of Australia, with all entries judged blind by an expert industry panel,” Fahey said.
New to the awards were local brewers Pirate Life Brewing, which made a big impression on the judges, winning the Champion India Pale Ale and Champion American Style Pale Ale, as well as the Chief Judges Award for Best New Exhibit (Pirate Life IPA) and the Champion Large Brewery trophy.
Coopers, the nation’s largest Australian-owned brewery, won the Champion Australian Style Lager, Champion Traditional Australian Style Pale Ale and Champion Reduced Alcohol Beer trophies.
Other winners included McLaren Vale’s Goodieson Brewery (Champion Wheat Beer, Champion Porter and Champion Small Brewery), West End (Champion Stout Beer for its Southwark Old Stout), Woolshed Brewery’s Judas the Dark (Champion Hybrid Beer), Prancing Pony Brewery (Champion Pilsner) and Vale Brewing’s Vale Amber (Champion Other Lager). New South Wales’s Modus Operandi Brewing was the only non-South Australian brewery to win a trophy (Champion Medium Brewery).
In the cider section, The Hills Cider Company Apple Solera Series won two trophies – Best South Australian Cider Exhibit and Best in Show, while the Barossa Valley Cider Company won the Best Perry (pear cider) trophy for its Squashed Pear Cider.
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Royal Adelaide Beer and Cider Awards winners:
Champion Australian Style Lager
Coopers Brewery Ltd Premium Lager
Champion Pilsener
Prancing Pony Brewery Pty Ltd Achtung Helles
Champion India Pale Ale
Pirate Life Brewing IPA
Champion Traditional Australian Style Pale Ale
Coopers Brewery Ltd Sparkling Ale
Other Ale
Smiling Samoyed Brewery Dark Ale
Champion Wheat Beer
Goodieson Brewery Wheat Beer
Best Perry
Barossa Valley Cider Company Squashed Pear Cider
Champion American Style Pale Ale
Pirate Life Brewing Pale Ale
Champion Stout Beer
West End Brewery Southwark Old Stout
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Champion Porter Beer
Goodieson Brewery Brown Ale
Champion Hybrid Beer
Woolshed Brewery Judas the Dark
Champion Reduced Alcohol Beer
Coopers Brewery Ltd Premium Light
Champion Other Lager
Vale Brewing Vale Amber
Best Cider in Show
Hills Cider Company Apple Solera Series
Best New Exhibit
Pirate Life Brewing IPA
Champion Small Brewery
Goodieson Brewery
Champion Medium Brewery
Modus Operandi Brewing
Champion Large Brewery
Pirate Life Brewing
Best South Australian Cider Exhibit
Hills Cider Company Apple Solera Series
Champion South Australian Beer Exhibit
Smiling Samoyed Brewery Dark Ale
Most Outstanding Beer in Show
Smiling Samoyed Brewery Dark Ale
