Winners Announced for Ontario Brewing Awards 2015



TORONTO, ON – The winners of the 2015 edition of the Ontario Brewing Awards were announced last night during an awards presentation attended by beer industry and media members at Corus Quay in Toronto.

The winners were chosen from a pool of more than 400 beers submitted by 70 breweries from across the province. BJCP-certified judges chose Gold, Silver and Bronze winners in 30 categories.

The winners in each category are as follows:

North American Light Lager

Gold: Cool Beer Stonewall Light

Silver: Flying Monkeys Antigravity

Bronze: Laker Light

North American Lager

Gold: Triple Bogey Premium Lager

Silver: Laker Lager

Bronze: Sleeman Original Draught

Pilsner

Gold: Steam Whistle Pilsner

Silver: Creemore Springs Lot 9

Bronze: Kichesippi Donny’s Dort

Amber Lager

Gold: Old Flame Red

Silver: Hop City Barking Squirrel

Bronze: Cool Beer Millennium Buzz

Dark Lager

Gold: Silversmith Black Lager

Silver: Hop City 8th Sin Black Lager

Bronze: F&M StoneHammer Dunkel

Bock

Gold: Lake of Bays Crazy Eyes Darcy Tucker

Silver: Creemore Springs UrBock

Bronze: Cameron’s Rye Bock

Honey / Maple Beers

Gold: Haliburton Highlands Honey Brown Ale

Silver: Railway City Shambock

Bronze: The 3 Brewers Maple Ale

Hefeweizen

Gold: Side Launch Wheat

Silver: Smithworks Hefeweizen

Bronze: Muskoka Summer Weiss

Witbier

Gold: Mill St. Belgian Wit

Silver: Northwinds Moonlit Wit

Bronze: Flying Monkeys Solstice Saison

Flavoured Beer

Gold: Wellington 2014: A Spice Odyssey

Silver: Trafalgar Ginger Beer

Bronze: Mill St. Lemon Tea

Farmhouse Ales

Gold: Nickel Brook Le Paysan Saison

Silver: Cameron’s Into the Shade Saison

Bronze: Amsterdam Howl

Lagered Ales

Gold: Sawdust City Gateway Kolsch

Silver: Nickel Brook Cause and Effect

Bronze: Sleeman Cream Ale

British Pale / Bitter

Gold: Big Rig ESB

Silver: Wellington Arkell Best Bitter

No Bronze Awarded

American Pale Ale

Gold: Great Lakes Canuck Pale Ale

Silver: Nickel Brook Naughty Neighbour

Bronze: Liberty Village 504 Pale Ale

British IPA

Gold: Longslice Hopsta La Vista

Silver: Railway City Dead Elephant Ale

Bronze: Sleeman India Pale Ale

West Coast IPA

Gold: Sawdust City Twin Pines IIPA

Silver: Stone City Green Goddess Imperial IPA

Bronze: Stone City Uncharted IPA

Dark IPA

Gold: Nickel Brook Malevolent Black Imperial Ale

Silver: Manantler Dark Prince

Bronze: Flying Monkeys Netherworld

Amber Ale

Gold: Kilannan New Zealand Red Ale

Silver: Orange Snail Rattle N’ Nemo

Bronze: Old Tomorrow Canadian Pale Ale

Dark Ale

Gold: Wellington County Dark Ale

Silver: Clocktower Bytown Brown

Bronze: Wellington Iron Duke Strong Ale

Porter

Gold: Clifford Brewing Porter

Silver: Innocente Charcoal Porter

Bronze: Block Three Pushbroom Porter

Stout

Gold: Trafalgar Schwartzy

Silver: Liberty Village Black Blessing

Bronze: Flying Monkeys Cadillac Graveyard

Imperial Stout/ Baltic Porter

Gold: Wellington Imperial Russian Stout

Silver: Big Rig Cherry Bomb Imperial Chocolate Cherry Milk Stout

Bronze: 5 Paddles Midnight Paddler

Fruit Beer

Gold: Mill St. Frambozen

Silver: Trafalgar Raspberry Mint

Bronze: Amsterdam KLB Raspberry Wheat

Vegetable Beer

Gold: Trafalgar Pumpkin Ale

Silver: Wellington Farmers’ Market Rhubarb Saison

Bronze: Garden Brewers Green Thumb IPA

Flavoured Porters / Stouts

Gold: Trafalgar Schwartzy Xpresso

Silver: Barley Days Scrimshaw Oyster Stout

Bronze: Amsterdam Full City Double Tempest

Strong Beer

Gold: Smithworks Blonde

Silver: Side Launch Belgian Hat Trick

Bronze: Amsterdam Vicars Vice

Gluten Free

Gold: Snowman The Rambam

Silver: Trafalgar Ginger Mead

No Bronze Awarded

Barrel Aged – Whisky

Gold: Amsterdam Double Tempest

Silver: Cameron’s Deviator Doppelbock

Bronze: Amsterdam Recidivist

Barrel Aged – Wine

Gold: Nickel Brook Winey Bastard

Silver: Amsterdam Sour Cherry Imperial Stout

Bronze: Sawdust City ODB

Smoked Beer

Gold: Black Oak Nox Aeterna

Silver: Covered Bridge La Cabane à Sucre

Bronze: Mill St. Rauchbier

Newcomer of the Year

Trafalgar Brewing

(Note: While Trafalgar has been open since 1993, they had not entered any beers into the OBA competition for close to a decade, so they were given this award based on this loose definition of “Newcomer”. A fuller explanation has been posted online by an OBA representative.)

Beer of the Year

Amsterdam Double Tempest