BC Beer Awards

The BC Beer Awards & Festival celebrates the very best beer brewed in British Columbia.

The BC Beer Awards team has once again made the difficult decision to cancel the annual judging and festival for the second year running.

Although vaccination efforts are ramping up in B.C., it seems unlikely that restrictions will ease soon enough to allow us to offer an optimal BC Beer Awards and Festival experience. Both events depend on large groups of people and have many points of potential COVID-19 risk.

We recognize the ongoing impact that the lack of festivals and gatherings is having on BC breweries. But given the ongoing uncertainty, and while it saddens us to have to do so, we believe cancelling is best for our breweries and sponsors. We hope you'll understand.

Thanks to everyone who has taken part in the BC Beer Awards over the past 10 years. We look forward to having a beer with you all in 2022. And in the meantime, support your local breweries and restaurants!

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Watch previous years’ awards presentations and more on our YouTube channel.

Submitting Beer Entries for Judging in the 2022 BC Beer Awards

Who can enter?  We accept beer brewing in BC by breweries originating in BC, and the beer must be available for sale in BC. 

To clarify: BC Brewery X making its own beer - YES. BC Brewery X making beer for another BC business - YES. Out of province brewery opening a brewery in BC - only the beer made here can be entered. Out of province brewery hiring a BC Brewery to make beer here - NO. 

Step One:

Register your intent to enter beers for judging by completing our form that nominates the person at your brewery who will responsible for collating and submitting your entries - ie. labelling, packaging and sending them to us. See button above. 

We are stressing a few basic rules regarding beer submissions, that will help us to identify, stack and sort beer entries. Our form asks you to read and acknowledge that you understand these entry rules. Please read through it carefully and proceed with registering your brewery contact person. All information about judging rules, dates, and locations will be sent to the person nominated. No information about the festival, booths, tickets or sponsorship will be sent to this address (unless it's the same person responsible for both).

For your own planning purposes, start putting your beers away now and expect to ship by mid August. 

Rules for submitting entries for judging:

  1. All entries must have their own printed, official Bottle ID label that is affixed with tape. The commercial label must not be removed. If the beer does not have a commercial label, it may be entered with the competition label alone.

  2. Breweries must submit either one six-pack or 4 individual bottles/cans for each entry.

  3. Each bottle/can may have a minimum volume of 250mL and a maximum volume of 1L.

  4. All entries, including six-packs and growlers, must be packed in a box suitable for 650mL/750mL/1L bottles. Boxes must be packed in such a way that they can be stacked at the drop-off location. ALL ENTRIES MUST BE BOXED.

STEP TWO:

Beer submission entries are now open. To enter your beers, go to www.bcbeerawards.ca and log in with your account, or if this is your first year, register.

Information on how to enter your beer submissions, please refer to The Beer Submission Guide

Contact Information:

Judging & Entry - Matt Anderson - matt@bcbeerawards.com

Registration & Login - Jill Plotnikoff - jill@bcbeerawards.com

2024 BC Beer Awards