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The longest-awaited beer competition in Italy also returns in the 2024 edition: the 19th edition of the Beer of the Year Award, a competition organised by Unionbirrai, which rewards the best craft beers and crowns the best Italian craft brewery of the year.

This year, the method of awarding the special prize "Brewery of the Year" will change. It will go to the producer who, in addition to having obtained the highest score with the best placements in three different beer categories, will also have received medals in different macrocategories, defined in the regulation on the basis of certain stylistic groupings.

Expert tasters, coming from abroad and from all over Italy, will gather around the tables for blind tastings that will decide the podiums of the 2024 edition of the competition between craft beers registered in 45 different categories.
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will be the winning beers for each category.

This year, the prize counts:

  • 2153 beers
  • 255 breweries

The jury for the Beer of the Year Award consists of 84 judges coming from the following countries:

  • AUSTRIA
  • AUSTRALIA
  • BULGARIA
  • DENMARK
  • FINLAND
  • GERMANY
  • ITALY
  • JAPAN
  • MEXICO
  • NETHERLANDS
  • PANAMA
  • POLAND
  • SPAIN
  • SWITZERLAND
  • USA

 

"The competition grows from year to year as well as the quality of craft beers registered. - commented Simone Monetti, General Secretary of Unionbirrai - This is confirmed by the demonstrations of esteem that come to us every year from foreign judges who take part in the tables. We expect a XIX edition with a higher quality level of the beers in competition".

All the information about the contest are available on the website www.birradellanno.it