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Invercargill Brewery was among the Kiwi Breweries to triumph at the Australian International Beer Awards for 2012.
Our summer seasonal Boysenbeery fruit beer won a silver medal, a nice synergy with Saison’s silver medal in 2011.
While Pitch Black, always a consistant player, won its third consecutive Bronze medal in the sweet stout category – a good showing for a stout which actually sits outside traditional categories.
In 2012 AIBA recieved 1,344 entries from 258 breweries across 41 countries.
A third Invercargill Brewery manufactured beer, Yeastie Boys ‘Gunamatta’ took out the People’s Choice Awards at the Great Australian Beer Spectacular the previous weekend.
Other New Zealand medalists at AIBA 2012 were:
8-Wired (Blenheim),four silver, one bronze
Deep Creek Brewing(Auckland) one bronze
DB (Monteiths, Tui & DB); three silver, two bronze
The Garage Project (Wellington)one gold, one bronze Lion (Macs, Speights, Steinlager)five silver, five bronze
McCashins (Nelson) four bronze medals
Moa (Blenheim) five silver, eight bronze
Renaissance (Blenheim) one silver, six bronze
Sprig and Fern (Nelson)two silver, two bronze
Steam Brewing (Auckland) three silver
The Croucher Brewing Company (Rotorua), one gold, one silver
Wigram Brewing Company (Christchurch), two bronze