A beer award for Niagara College.
The teaching Brewery's Beer 101 won silver at hte 18th annual Canadian Brewing Awards in the Bock Traditional German Style category.
The national competition is widely recognized as a symbol of Canadian breweing excellence.
“Our Teaching Brewery’s success at national competitions demonstrates how Niagara College continues to lead the way in Canada’s growing craft beer industry,” said Steve Gill, general manager of NC’s Learning Enterprises. “It’s also a testament to the quality applied education we offer our Brewmaster students who gain hands-on experience crafting quality products that are applauded as among the best in Canada.”
College Brewmaster Jon Downing noted that this is the first award Beer 101 Bock has ever won. “It was one of the last beers brewed by the students before the lockdown and, as a result, we got to age it for a very long time before we kegged and packaged it for the competition,” he said. “Bock is a beer that historically would have been aged for several months, so this means we were really true to style, which is the goal for all of our Beer 101 branded brews.”
The recent national success of Beer 101 Bock follows a line of College brews that have proved their mettle at the Canadian Brewing Awards.
In 2019, its Beer 101 Bitter and Beer 101 Strong both won bronze, in 2018 Beer 101 Strong won silver and in 2013 Butler’s Bitter won gold.
Beer 101 Bock is available in 473 ml cans, and may be purchased at the Wine Visitor + Education Centre, located at the College’s Daniel J. Patterson Campus in Niagara-on-the-Lake.