Wellington Brewery Wins 5 Medals at 2021 US Open Beer Championship

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Guelph, ON – For the 10th year in a row, Wellington Brewery took home awards at the US Open Beer Championship. Winning the most medals of any Canadian brewery, Wellington took home 2 Gold Medals and 3 Silver Medals which earned a 4th place overall ranking in this international brewing competition.

This year’s competition included over 8,000 beer entries in 140 different styles from craft brewers from around the world. Here are the awards by category:

🥇Gold (Brown Ale ) – County Brown Ale
🥇Gold (Chili Pepper Beer) – Raked Over IPA

🥈 Silver (English Pale Ale) – Special Pale Ale
🥈 Silver (British Imperial Stout) – Imperial Russian Stout
🥈 Silver (Bitter) – Arkell Best Bitter

Homebrewing & Industry 2021: 52 craft beer recipes from brewers

52 recipes from brewers in Canada, the U.S.A., France, the U.K., Spain, Switzerland, and Iceland. Taken from our 3 latest issues in French (Recettes de Bières et Industrie). The artwork cover is from Marc-André Filion from Messorem Bracitorium Brewery in Montréal. We have also interviewed 16 breweries and associations (from Canada, the U.S.A., and Ireland) about their challenges in 2021.

You can view a full list of the winners here.

Four of these award-winning beers including County Brown Ale, Special Pale Ale, Imperial Russian Stout, and Arkell Best Bitter are available year-round from the brewery. Raked Over IPA is a seasonal release which is still available at select LCBO stores but no longer available from the brewery.
You can find more information about the US Open Beer Championship awards on the Wellington Brewery website.