2015 BCBA Winners List

The 6th Annual British Columbia Beer Awards drew nearly 800 entries from more than 70 breweries, judged across 20 style categories. Parallel 49 Brewing earned the most trophies overall with four, while Brassneck Brewery stood out with three—including two first-place finishes—making it the most decorated brewery at the top of the podium.

Special Honours

Best In Show

Brassneck Brewery – One Trick Pony Imperial IPA

CBC People’s Choice Award

Four Winds Brewing – Nectarous Bourbon Sour

The Brewer’s Challenge- Sour Beer

Main Street Brewing – Cantus Fermus Sour

Rookie of the Year

presented by Richards Buell Sutton

Doan’s Craft Brewing

Dan Small Homebrew Award

Sho Ogawa and Shih-Shan Chen – Kettle Sour Prune Plum Old Bruin

Beer Category Winners

North American Light Beer

1. Tofino Brewing – Tofino Blonde Ale
2. High Mountain Brewing – Lifty Lager
3. Granville Island Brewing – Island Lager

Light European Bier

1. Parallel 49 Brewing – Craft Lager
2. Central City Brewers + Distillers – Mayor Kolsch
3. Russell Brewing – Eastern Promises

UK Pale Ale

1. Big Ridge Brewing – Big Ridge Clover Ale
2. Forbidden Brewing – Forbidden Pale Ale
3. Bomber Brewing – Bomber ESB

Amber/Dark Lager

1. Steel & Oak Brewing – Dark Lager
2. Persephone Brewing – Oktoberfest
3. Tree Brewing – Captivator Doppelbock

UK Red/Brown Ale

1. Whistler Brewing – Whistler Brewing Black Tusk Ale
2. Lighthouse Brewing – Race Rocks
3. Parallel 49 Brewing – Old Boy

North American Pale Ale

1. Howe Sound Brewing – Sky Pilot Northwest Pale Ale
2. Persephone Brewing – Pale Ale
3. Russell Brewing – Hop Therapy ISA

North American Amber/Brown Ale

1. Big Rock Urban Brewery – Hollow Tree
2. Russell Brewing – Cream Ale
3. Brassneck Brewery – Brassneck Ale

German/Belgian Wheat

1. Barkerville Brewing – White Gold
2. Big Rock Urban Brewing – Dunkelweizen
3. Granville Island Brewing – Hey Day Hefeweizen

Fruit

1. Stanley Park Brewing – SunSetter
2. Tree Brewing – Mellow Moon Pineapple Hefeweizen
3. Strange Fellows Brewing – Framboise Noir

Spice/Herb/Vegetable

1. Tofino Brewing – Spruce Tree Ale
2. Stanley Park Brewing – IceBreaker
3. Tofino Brewing – Kelp Stout

Specialty

1. Brassneck Brewery – No Brainer Pre Prohibition Lager
2. Bridge Brewing – Wee Tipsy Peated Scotch Ale
3. Steamworks Brewing – Steamworks Gose

Stout/Porter

1. Doan’s Craft Brewing – American Rye Stout
2. Barkerville Brewing – 52 Foot Stout
3. Mission Springs Brewing – Fat Guy Oatmeal Stout

Wood/Barrel Aged

1. Bridge Brewing – Imperial White IPA
2. Four Winds Brewing – Pequeño Cabo Tequila Barrel Aged Berliner Weisse
3. Parallel 49 Brewing – Barrel Aged Vow of Silence

North American IPA

1. Central City Brewers + Distillers – Red Racer IPA
2. Red Truck Beer – Red Truck IPA
3. Hearthstone Brewing – Hearthstone IPA

Specialty IPA

1. Bridge Brewing – Black Rye IPA
2. Moon Under Water Brewery – Hip As Funk
3. Bomber Brewing – Blood From A Stone Red Rye IPA

Imperial IPA

1. Brassneck Brewery – One Trick Pony
2. Parallel 49 Brewing – 187 On An Undercover Hop
3. Parallel 49 Brewing C0 – Hopnotist

Belgian/French Farmhouse

1. Persephone Brewing – Multigrain Saison
2. Dageraad Brewing – Randonneur Saison
3. Ravens Brewing – Farmers Ale

Strong Ale

1. Swans Brewpub – Legacy Ale
2. R&B Brewing – Auld Nick Winter Ale
3. Swans Brewpub – Swans Scotch Ale

Belgian Abbey Ale

1. Dageraad Brewing – Dageraad Blonde
2. Tree Brewing – Trappist Artist Belgian Dubbel
3. Old Abbey Ales – Belgian Quad

Sours/Wild Ale

1. Four Winds Brewing – Juxtapose Wild IPA
2. Strange Fellows Brewing – Roxanne
3. Dageraad Brewing – De Witte