For the complete list of winners check the Canada Beer Cup<\/a> site.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/bc.thegrowler.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Joe_Wiebe-665x719.jpg\")
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This is the first time a brewery from Eastern Canada has won the Canada Beer Cup<\/h3>\n
Canadian craft breweries celebrated brewing excellence at the Canada Beer Cup Awards Gala in Qu\u00e9bec City on November 10. The trophy for Best Beer in Canada went to Qu\u00e9bec\u2019s own Microbrasserie Charlevoix<\/strong> for its Flacatoune Belgian Blonde<\/strong>, with second place going to Dwarf Sour Cherry Fruited Saison <\/strong>by Blindman Brewing<\/strong> of Alberta, and third to Halifax brewery Garrison Brewing\u2019s Spruce Ale<\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n Judging for the Canada Beer Cup took place in mid-September in Calgary, Alberta. The panel of 44 judges included international adjudicators from Belgium, Germany, Scotland, Mexico, and the USA, as well as across Canada.<\/p>\n Notably, breweries from British Columbia took home the majority of the beer awards by a wide margin. Overall, BC craft breweries won <\/span>36.8% of the beer prizes, almost twice as many as the next best province, Qu\u00e9bec, which won 19.7%. Alberta was third at 18.4%, and Ontario claimed 13.8%, with Manitoba, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and Saskatchewan all coming in around 3%.<\/span><\/p>\n In total, BC breweries won 56 out of the 152 beer-specific awards, including first place in 18 of 51 different categories. Breweries from BC swept four of the categories, including the Feature Category: Western Canadian Gambrinus Pilsner Malt, American Amber Beer, Single Packaging, and, fittingly, the highly contested West Coast IPA style. Notably, BC breweries also took first and second in the Canadian Spruce Tip Pale Ale category, a style that has a strong connection to our west coast forests.<\/p>\n Beva Brewing & Blending<\/strong> (North Vancouver):<\/span><\/p>\n Deadfall Brewing<\/strong> (Prince George):<\/p>\n Gladstone Brewing<\/strong> (Courtenay):<\/p>\n Smithers Brewing<\/strong>:<\/p>\n Steamworks Brewing<\/strong> (Burnaby):<\/p>\nBC Breweries Win Big<\/h3>\n
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Notable winners from British Columbia included:<\/h3>\n
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