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WINNERS Winners were announced at an awards ceremony on the final night of Craft Brewers Conference. The passion and pride on winners’ faces, as they bounded on stage to collect their Award was a sight to behold and the excitement was electric. WBC awarded gold, silver and bronze medals to 307 winners from 103 categories covering 176 different beer styles. ABOUT THE AUTHOR Lotte Peplow is the American Craft Beer Ambassador for Europe for the Brewers Association and is based in London, UK. She is a Certified Cicerone ® , BDI accredited Beer Sommelier, beer writer, author, beer communicator, international beer judge, homebrewer and beer lover ABOUT THE BREWERS ASSOCIATION The Brewers Association (BA) is the not-for-profit trade association dedicated to small and independent American brewers, their beers and the community of brewing enthusiasts. The BA represents 5,600-plus U.S. breweries. The BA’s independent craft brewer seal is a widely adopted symbol that differentiates beers by small and independent craft brewers. The BA organizes events including the World Beer Cup ® , Great American Beer Festival ® , Craft Brewers Conference ® & BrewExpo America ® , , Homebrew ConTM, National Homebrew Competition and American Craft Beer Week ® . The BA publishes The New Brewer ® magazine, and Brewers Publications ® is the leading publisher of brewing literature in the U.S. Beer lovers are invited to learn more about the dynamic world of craft beer at CraftBeer.com ® and about homebrewing via the BA’s American Homebrewers Association ® and the free Brew Guru ® mobile app. Follow us on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Issued on behalf of the Brewers Association, 1327 Spruce Street, Boulder, Colorado, 80302 USA. www.brewersassociation.org FOR FURTHER PRESS INFORMATION: Lotte Peplow: lotte@brewersassociation.org +44 (0)7973 698 414 FACEBOOK www.facebook.com/ BrewersAssoc/?fref=ts X (TWITTER) https://twitter.com/ brewersassoc INSTAGRAM https://www.instagram. com/brewersassoc/ GET INVOLVED Next year World Beer Cup and Craft Brewers Conference will be held in Las Vegas, 21-24 April 2024. Registration opens in November 2023. The Brewers Association publishes a wealth of resources to underastand and enjoy craft beer, downloadable free of charge from www.brewersassociation.org WORLD BEER CUP https://www. worldbeercup.org/ BREWERS ASSOCIATION https://www. brewersassociation.org/ 16 | Spring 2023 | ontapmag.co.za