Beer Awards 2025
Join us in celebrating the best of the best in 2025
Robyn Gilmour
Monday 20 October 2025
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Beer Awards 2025
issue 123
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Blimey, another year gone! We’ve started to mark the passing of time with our Awards issue, the only one in our repertoire that’s an annual occurrence and seems, these days, to come around all too quickly. That sentiment seems to be shared by all the breweries featuring in this issue. Where historically, craft beer has moved and changed at the speed of light, 2025 was a year of slow, hard graft. Many breweries have looked up from the grindstone to find themselves changed, perhaps even, to have come into their own, and found new strengths. As frightening as change can feel in the moment, it's a privilege to witness and reflect on with just a few degrees of separation.
We ask all the breweries we speak to for this issue three questions; what’s been new? Do you have any goals for next year? What’s a trend or change that you’d like to see in the beer industry over the next year? The answers might surprise you. Many are praying, not quite for the demise of the NEIPA, but for something new to take its place. Others, perhaps similarly fatigued, are manifesting the return of clean, clear brewing, free of adjuncts. Where last year, brewers were still coming to terms with working slower, smarter and steadier to survive turbulent times, now, they seem hungry for change and newness. Could combining skills honed over the last year, with this impetus for experimentation yield styles or flavours that will define 2026? Observing and projecting, dreaming and scheming has always been the purpose of this issue. It gives us a reason to look up at the settling dust, debrief, and hazard a guess as to what comes next.
Find out the winners of 2025
• • • Technical Brewing Award • • •
• • • One for the Road Award • • •
• • • Sustainability Award• • •
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