2014 BCBA Winners List

The 5th Annual British Columbia Beer Awards saw a record 465 entries judged in 21 categories, with two dozen judges evaluating beers at Vancouver’s Blackbird Public House. Although no Brewery of the Year was officially awarded, Parallel 49 Brewing and Moon Under Water Brewery each earned four trophies, the most of any brewery that year.

Special Honours

Best of Show

Yellow Dog Brewing – Shake A Paw Smoked Brown Porter

CBC People’s Choice Award

Four Winds – Sovereign Super Saison

The Brewer’s Challenge

Bridge Brewing – Purl

Dan Small Homebrew Award

1. Matt Anderson – Anderson Estate IPA – Fresh Hopped
2. Grayson Barke – Harvest Rye IPA
3. Brad Johnson – Squashmonster

Beer Category Winners

Light Lager – 22 entries

1. Turning Point Brewing – Stanley Park Noble Pilsner
2. Okanagan Spring – 1516 Bavarian Lager
3. Hoyne Brewing – Helios-Dortmunder Golden Lager

Pilsner – 22 entries

1. Steamworks Pilsner – Steamworks Brewing
2. Barley Station Brew Pub – Canoe Creek Pilsner
3. Russell Brewing – Lager

Special Lager – 17 entries

1. Tree Brewing – Captivator Doppelbock
2. Pacific Western Brewing – Pacific Schwarzbock
3. Persephone Brewing – Black Lager

Hybrids – 37 entries

1. Steamworks Brewing – Brewpub Kolsch
2. Phillips Brewing – Slipstream Ale
3. R&B Brewing – Sun God Wheat Ale

German Wheat/Rye – 10 entries

1. Moon Under Water Brewery – This Is Hefeweizen
2. Moon Under Water Brewery – Moon Berliner Style – Weisse
3. Big Ridge Brewing – Big Ridge Dunkleweizen

UK Ales – 40 entries

1. Tin Whistle Brewing – Stag Apple Scotch Ale
2. Bowen Island Brewing – Snug Cove ESB
3. Moon Under Water Brewery – Wee Woody

North American Ales – 48 entries

1. Main Sreet Brewing – Main Street Sessional IPA
2. Phillips Brewing – Coulrophobia IRA
3. Rossland Beer – Paydirt Pale Ale

Porter/Brown – 30 entries

1. Yellow Dog Brewing – Shake A Paw Smoked Brown Porter
2. Powell Street Brewing – Dive Bomb Porter
3. Lighthouse Brewing – Road Trip Fresh Hopped Dark Ale

Belgian/French – 45 entries

1. Driftwood Brewing – White Bark Witbier
2. Dageraad Brewing – De Witte
3. Four Winds Brewing – Juxtapose Brett IPA

Vegetable/Spice Beer – 27 entries

1. Parallel 49 Brewing – Lost Souls
2. Howe Sound Brewing – Pumpkineater Imperial Pumpkin Ale
3. Fuggles & Warlock Craftworks – Bean Me Up Espresso Milk Stout

Stout – 24 entries

1. Persephone Brewing – Dry Irish Stout
2. Dead Frog Brewing – Commander Imperial Stout (2013)
3. Dead Frog Brewing – Commander Imperial Stout (2014)

North American IPA – 44 entries

1. High Mountian Brewing – 5 Rings IPA
2. Four Winds Brewing – Four Winds IPA
3. Central City Brewers + Distillers – Red Racer IPA

Imperial IPA – 14 entries

1. Brassneck Brewery – One Trick Pony
2. Central City Brewers + Distillers – Red Racer Imperial IPA
3. Bomber Brewing – SuperPest

Fruit/Sour – 24 entries

1. Driftwood Brewing – Bird Of Prey- Flanders Red
2. Parallel 49 Brewing – Schwarzwald
3. Brassneck Brewery – Peach Changeling

Strong – 16 entries

1. Steamworks Brewery – Steamworks Blitzen
2. Townsite Brewing – Biere D’Hiver
3. Howe Sound Brewing – Wooly Bugger Barley Wine

Specialty – 29 entries

1. Granville Island Brewing – Lost In The Barrels
2. Moon Under Water Brewery – Year 2
3. Parallel 49 Brewing – Salty Scot

Smoke/Wood – 16 entries

1. Central City Brewers + Distillers – Thor’s Hammer Barrel Aged
2. Parallel 49 Brewing – Braggot
3. Brassneck Brewery – Inertia II