Wisconsin Brewery Now One of the Best in the World According to 2025 World Beer Cup

The huge World Beer Cup awards were handed out on May 1st to breweries from all around the world! Among some of the top winners is a brewery in Wisconsin that we all know and love.

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What is the World Beer Cup

The World Beer Cup has been around since 1996 and celebrates "the art and science of brewing."

They say that sometimes they're referred to as “The Olympics of Beer Competitions”. I mean, it is "the most prestigious beer competition in the world" after all.

So when a brewery wins an award from the World Beer Cup, it's a big deal.

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There are all sorts of categories that breweries around the globe can enter beers for judging. Categories consist of your most common beers, like American Wheat Beer, and also some very unique categories like Chili Beer.

For each category, and there are A LOT of them, there's a gold, silver, and bronze award handed out.

When you win one award, it's pretty cool, but when you win multiple, you know you're doing something right. And a brewery in Wisconsin is being called one of the best breweries in the world because of the number of awards they won this year.

Wisconsin Brewery Named One of the Best in the World

The top brewery in the world won six awards at this year's World Beer Cup. That brewery is Breakside Brewery in Portland, OR.

As for the Wisconsin brewery, they won three awards at the event, which is no small feat. That brewery would be New Glarus Brewing in New Glarus, WI!

Most, if not all, of us are familiar with New Glarus, mainly because you can only get New Glarus beer in Wisconsin, so it's a hot commodity when someone shows up with New Glarus in Minnesota.

New Glarus won both gold and silver in the Belgian Fruit Beer category. The gold-winning beer is called Kriek, and the silver-winning beer is called Champ Du Blanc. The third award they won was in the Other Strong Beer category, where they took home bronze for their Imperial Pilsner.