Winners of the 2025 World Beer Cup® Announced
World Beer Cup was organized by The Brewers Association (BA) which the not-for-profit trade association dedicated to small and independent American craft brewers. The awards ceremony was held at the Indiana Convention Center in Indianapolis, in conjunction with the Craft Brewers Conference® & BrewExpo America®.
Here is the full listed of The winners of 2025 World Beer Cup.
Throughout 14 sessions spanning seven days, a panel of 265 judges from 37 countries methodically evaluated 8,375 entries from 1,761 breweries and cideries across 49 nations and bestowed 349 awards.*
World Beer Cup Competition Statistics
- 16th competition (skipped 2020; annualized starting 2022)
- Entries: 8,375
- Breweries & cideries: 1,761
- Countries: 49
- First-time brewery entries: 317
- Judges: 265
- International judges: 132 from 37 countries
- Judge countries: 37
- Judging sessions and days: 7 days, 14 sessions
- Beer style categories (including subcategories): 112
- Cider categories: 5
- Avg number of beers in each category: 73
Most entered style categories:
- Category 111, Juicy or Hazy India Pale Ale, 290 entries
- Category 112, West Coast-Style India Pale, 253 entries
- Category 110, American-Style India Pale Ale, 208 entries
- Category 43, German-Style Pilsener, 186 entries
- Category 39, Hoppy Lager, 155 entries
Editor’s note: Photos for media use are available on the World Beer Cup website. A recording of the awards ceremony can be viewed here. Previous years’ winners can be viewed here.
The 2025 World Beer Cup competition was made possible by the generous support of its sponsors: Fermentis, First Key, HAAS, Jenrey Ltd. Beverage Solutions, Rahr Malting Co., SAHM, and Siemens.