The world’s most historic worldwide beer and cider competitors, The Worldwide Brewing & Cider Awards, has introduced the enlargement of its prestigious awards into Manchester, UK, and the launch of a beer and cider competition.
The biennial competitors, referred to as the ‘Oscars’ of the brewing and cider world, will happen in March 2024 at Depot Mayfield Manchester, which is able to see trade professionals collect to rejoice the extraordinary and well-crafted beers and ciders from all corners of the world.
For the primary time in its 137-year historical past, the Awards will likely be accompanied by a public competition – The Worldwide Brewing & Cider Pageant, which will likely be a two-day ticketed occasion for the general public, showcasing the vary of beers and ciders entered into the competitors from all over the world, along with native producers.
The enlargement into Manchester, and the launch of the primary Worldwide Brewing & Cider Pageant, represents a big milestone within the Awards’ dedication to selling and supporting the brewing and cider industries.
The Pageant will happen following the tip of the competitors, on Friday 22nd March and Saturday 23rd March, providing for the primary time a uncommon alternative for attendees to style such a variety of native, nationwide and worldwide merchandise, together with award-winning beer and cider from the Awards. Tickets to the Worldwide Brewing & Cider Pageant will likely be out there for buy from November on the official competition web site: https://ibcfest.com/.
Based in 1886, The Worldwide Brewing & Cider Awards takes place each two years and has been the gold customary in rewarding the fervour and craftsmanship of breweries and cidermakers internationally. Its 2021 Awards attracted entries from worldwide breweries and cider mills, with winners coming from nations together with Australia, China, Japan, Luxembourg, South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand, USA and the UK.
Ruth Evans MBE, Director of the Worldwide Brewing & Cider Awards, stated: “We’re thrilled to be bringing the world-renowned Awards to Manchester for the primary time.
“The Worldwide Brewing & Cider Awards is probably the most historic worldwide competitors of its type, and it’s important that we innovate and increase, and our transfer to Manchester and the introduction of our Pageant is a part of that evolution.
“Town has a wealthy historical past in brewing and an up-and-coming cider scene making it a becoming location for the enlargement of our Awards. After being at our earlier location in Burton-Upon-Trent for a decade, we now stay up for invigorating the competitors, with an goal to additional increase the Awards and forge invaluable new partnerships with native organisations and neighborhood stakeholders.
“Our competitors has at all times been there to assist the brewing and cidermaking trade on a not-for-profit foundation and rejoice the very best beers and ciders from all over the world, offering the popularity they really deserve.
“The transfer to Manchester permits us to increase the data and appreciation of a win on the competitors to the patron, while selling excellence inside our trade.”
Registration for the Awards will open in October 2023 and shut on 1 February 2024. Brewers and cidermakers from all all over the world are inspired to submit their best beers and ciders for analysis by a panel of worldwide judges, who’re all training brewers and cidermakers and are revered inside the brewing and cider world.
For extra details about the Awards, together with an inventory of classes and entry standards, please go to Worldwide Brewing & Cider Awards’ web site.
