2022 World Beer Cup Winners Announced

Knoxville Tennessee is on the Board!!!
Go Xül your killing it.

 

Allagash are Belgian purists - how many other US breweries have the restraint to do witbier the "correct" way: low hops, creamy yet dry, subtle coriander + orange peel, and very lightly tart?

I'd expect someone like St Bernardus to place well; maybe they didn't enter...

 

Well, that was indeed the case for Celis Witbier 'back in the day'.

Christine Celis is continuing her father's tradition in Austin. I have not had the fortune to taste the present day beer.

I just visited the website to 'discover' they have over a dozen beer brands on tap at the taproom:

https://www.celisbeers.com/copy-of-core-beers-1

Cheers!

P.S. No way of knowing if Celis submitted a beer to the competition.

 

The 2022 WBC had no Gold or Silver medals in Category 68: Belgian-Style Witbier despite having 102 Entries. Were really 101 beers so bad as to not medal or were they outside of style guidelines and disqualified?

 

It's rigged

 

The final Judges table for this category probably had 9 samples to evaluate, and had been instructed to trust that the Judges in the preliminary and mid rounds had done their jobs advancing the best entries from those flights. It’s unusual, but the organizers have to trust that those 5 trained people came to that consensus for a reason.

 

Several years back we stopped in and had a Celis White. I was reminded as to how good it used to be, as a beer that exemplifies the style.

 

Right. Show your work.

 

I was Happy to see Union out of Baltimore took home silver for their “Blackwing” Scwartzbier. It’s solid.

 

Allagash won gold for their Tripel. Personally, I’ve never been a huge fan of their take on a Belgian Tripel but to each their own I guess. Their White should have won gold again, that was just weird how they didn’t give our gold or silver for that category.

 

https://thefullpint.com/editorial/n...VH4kVAV_70LFVopaFkcYUFgs_vJa4wO3EQGyPCGyrA4zA

 

Another article about the WBC – Witbier ‘controversy’ (see link below).

One extract from the article:

“In my expert opinion, Allagash White is a fantastic beer and is truly an exemplar of the style, but if you’ve got people from different countries who don’t have the same exposure to Allagash White, we can’t escape those biases,” Blair explains. “As judges, we try to be as objective as possible, but we’re not lab instruments.”

Yes, beer judges are people and not “lab instruments”.

Cheers!

https://www.goodbeerhunting.com/sig...-the-worlds-best-witbier-is-only-worth-bronze

 

At least he didn't say lab rats.

 

Well not sure why I haven't tried Industrial Arts Metric. Would be happy to find a local Pils to keep on hand. Will have to fix that