Which beers are the best in the world? Taste competitions are usually regional or national in scope, but one award that encompasses the entire globe is the World Beer Cup. The awards take place every two years and the 2022 award winners have been named. Like past years, the award ceremony took place at the conclusion of the Craft Brewers Conference, held this year in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Gold, Silver, and Bronze medals were awarded in 103 categories, an increase of two categories from the 2018 awards (2020 was cancelled, due to COVID). There were, of course, the common categories like American Wheat Beer, German- Style Pilsener, and Vienna- Style Lager. But there were also lesser- known categories of competition like Experimental Wood- Aged Beer and Mixed Culture Brett Beer.
American breweries still dominated the awards, winning 252 total medals. But there were plenty of other nations taking home a Gold, Silver, or Bronze. Canada ranked second in the world with 14 medals. Germany won 11 medals. And Colombia received its first ever World Beer Cup recognition, taking home a Gold Medal for Saison Con Miel, an entry in the Specialty Saison category.
Most impressive of all was the number of entries: 10,542 from 57 countries! The last World Beer Cup in 2018 had 8,234 entries. An increase this large proves that craft beer is making great inroads on an international scale.
Here is a complete list of 2022 World Beer Cup Winners, sorted by category:
Such a fabulous post on beers…, very Informative.
I need to show this to my husband. He’s a huge fan of beer, and I know he’d love to try all of these.
It’s great to see which beers are popular, there are so many types of beer, great to know the good ones.
This is great. I love trying new beers and will have to write some of these down to see if my local total wine has them to try!
To be honest, I didn’t know such an event existed but now it looks interesting. The list of winners is awesome, they are truly the beer cup champion.
Wow! This must have been interesting seeing all these different beer brands competing for the grand prize! Kudos to the winners.
Wait, did I read World beer cup? This is the first time to know about this and it seems nice event. I know so many things about beer from your posts haha.
I didn’t know that World Beer Cup exist! I am sure this is a fun event. Congratulations to the winners!
World Beer Cup sounds like an amazing event for beer lovers. This list is pretty impressive.
I guess I need to let my friends know about this! Surely they will be astonished and probably we can try to visit this too and add to our travels
My ex loved beer, he would have loved it still I will send it so him. I personally found it really cool.
I love beer and this is a great list! I will be taking note of some of these 🙂