Port Moody is now home to the top dog in B.C.’s beer scene, after one of the city’s microbreweries captured the big prize at Saturday’s B.C. Beer Awards.
Yellow Dog Brewing Co., which only opened in July, took home the best in show prize for its Shake A Paw Smoked Brown Porter, after that beer won the gold medal in the Browns and Porters category at an awards ceremony at the Croatian Cultural Centre in Vancouver.
Other big winners at the fifth annual awards included Steamworks, which won three gold medals for its Pilsner (Pilsner category), Kolsch (Hybrids) and Blitzen (Strong), the latter also earning an honourable mention for best in show.
Driftwood Brewery took two golds back to Victoria, for its White Bark witbier (Belgian/French category) and Bird of Prey Flanders Red (Fruit and Sours), both Moon Under Water of Victoria and Vancouver’s Parallel 49 won a gold, two silvers and a bronze, Surrey’s Central City Brewers + Distillers captured a gold, a silver and a bronze, and the barely-year-old Brassneck Brewery in Vancouver won a gold and two bronzes.
The other gold-medal-winning breweries were Granville Island, Main Street, Persephone, Tin Whistle, Tree, Turning Point and Whistler’s High Mountain Brewing Co., whose Five Rings IPA topped the hotly contested IPA category for the second time.
Special mention should go to Dead Frog, which won two medals with the same beer — albeit different vintages of its Commander Imperial Stout.
Congratulations to all, and especially to Yellow Dog. Better get brewing more of that porter.
Here’s the full list of winners:
Light Lager – 22 entries
Gold: Turning Point Brewing Company -‐ Stanley Park Noble Pilsner
Silver: OK Springs Okanagan Spring -‐ 1516
Bronze: Hoyne Brewing Co. -‐ Helios-‐ Dortmunder Golden Lager
Honourable Mention: Turning Point Brewing Company
Pilsner – 22 entries
Gold: Steamworks Brewery -‐ Steamworks Pilsner
Silver: Barley Station Brew Pub -‐ Canoe Creek Pilsner
Bronze: Russell Brewing Co. -‐ Lager 22
Special Lager – 17 entries
Gold: Tree Brewing Co. -‐ Captivator Doppelbock
Silver: Pacific Western Brewing Pacific Schwarzbock
Bronze: Persephone Brewing Co. -‐ Black Lager
Hybrids – 37 entries
Gold: Steamworks Brewpub -‐ Steamworks Brewpub Kolsch
Silver: Phillips Brewing Co. -‐ Slipstream Ale
Bronze: R&B Brewing Company -‐ Sun God Wheat Ale
UK Ales – 40 entries
Gold: Tin Whistle Brewing Co. -‐ Stag Apple Scotch Ale
Silver: Bowen Island Brewing -‐ Snug Cove ESB
Bronze: Moon Under Water Brewery -‐ Wee Woody
North American Ales – 48 entries
Gold: Main St. Brewing Co. -‐ Main Street Sessional IPA
Silver: Phillips Brewing Co. -‐ Coulrophobia IRA
Bronze: Rossland Beer Co. -‐ Paydirt Pale Ale
German Wheat/Rye – 10 entries
Gold: Moon Under Water Brewery -‐ This Is Hefeweizen
Silver: Moon Under Water Brewery -‐ Moon Berliner Style Weisse
Bronze: Big Ridge Brewing Co. -‐ Big Ridge Dunkleweizen
Belgian/French – 45 entries
Gold: Driftwood Brewing Company -‐ White Bark Witbier
Silver: Dageraad Brewing -‐ De Witte
Bronze: Four Winds Brewing Company -‐ Juxtapose Brett IPA
Honourable Mention: Brassneck Brewery -‐ Stockholm Syndrome
Browns and Porters – 30 entries
Gold: Yellow Dog Brewing Co -‐ Shake A Paw Smoked Brown Porter
Silver: Powell Street Brewing Co. -‐ Dive Bomb Porter
Bronze: Lighthouse Brewing Company -‐ Road Trip Fresh Hopped Dark Ale
Stouts – 24 entries
Gold: Persephone Brewing Co. -‐ Dry Irish Stout
Silver: Dead Frog Brewing Co. -‐ Commander Imperial Stout (2013)
Bronze: Dead Frog Brewing Co. -‐ Commander Imperial Stout (2014)
Vegetable / Spice Beer – 27 entries
Gold: Parallel 49 Brewing Co. -‐ Lost Souls
Silver: Howe Sound Brewing -‐ Pumpkineater Imperial Pumpkin Ale
Bronze: Fuggles & Warlock Craftwerks -‐ Bean Me Up Espresso Milk Stout
Specialty Beer – 29 entries
Gold: Granville Island Brewing -‐ Lost In The Barrels
Silver: Moon Under Water Brewery -‐ Year 2
Bronze: Parallel 49 Brewing Co. -‐ Salty Scot
Smoke/Wood – 16 entries
Gold: Central City Brewers and Distillers -‐ Thor’s Hammer Barrel Aged
Silver: Parallel 49 Brewing Co. -‐ Braggot
Bronze: Brassneck Brewery -‐ Inerita II
Strong – 16 entries
Gold: Steamworks Brewery -‐ Steamworks Blitzen
Silver: Townsite Brewing Co. -‐ Biere D’Hiver
Bronze: Howe Sound Brewing -‐ Wooly Bugger Barley Wine
Fruit and Sours – 24 entries
Gold: Driftwood Brewing Company -‐ Bird Of Prey-‐ Flanders Red
Silver: Parallel 49 Brewing Co. -‐ Schwarzwald
Bronze: Brassneck Brewery -‐ Peach Changeling
North American IPA – 44 entries
Gold: High Mountain Brewing Co. -‐ 5 Rings IPA
Silver: Four Winds Brewing Company -‐ Four Winds IPA
Bronze: Central City Brewers and Distillers -‐ Red Racer IPA
Imperial IPA – 14 entries
Gold: Brassneck Brewery -‐ One Trick Pony
Silver: Central City Brewers and Distillers -‐ Red Racer Imperial IPA
Bronze: Bomber Brewing Co. -‐ SuperPest
Best of Show: Yellow Dog Brewing Co -‐ Shake A Paw Smoked Brown Porter
Honourable Mention: Steamworks -‐ Blitzen
People’s Choice Award: Four Winds Brewing Co. — Sovereign Super Saison
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