Renaissance Brewing Shortlisted For Best Brewery

Renaissance Brewing Shortlisted For World’s Best Small Brewery At Australian International Beer Awards

Marlborough based craft brewers, Renaissance brewing, have picked up 4 prestigious medals in the recently released results from the world’s second largest beer competition, the AIBA (Australian International Beer Awards). Renaissance picked up 4 silver medals in the awards and were one of five breweries shortlisted for the Champion Small Brewer award.

This continues the accolades bestowed on the beers of Renaissance this year, currently the Renaissance Elemental Porter is rated number one beer in New Zealand by consumers on the industry leading ratebeer.com database, and the RateBeer awards gave two gold medals to the brewery earlier this year.

Operations brewer Brian Thiel said he and the entire team were incredibly proud of the results in the AIBA, “Since the birth of Renaissance in 2005 this is our proudest moment, this rounds off our first five years of operation and shows that now we have the necessary maturity to continue to drive the craft beer renaissance in New Zealand. We like to think that ourselves, along with certain contemporaries, are pioneers of craft beer in New Zealand, it’s been a slow journey but we feel we are starting to get somewhere.”

Thiel added, “I’m sure ourselves and other craft brewers were in awe of the task they had in front of them, we had to search around for the niche market where beer drinkers wanted flavour to their beers and didn’t want to be drinking coloured sugar water. Now this is changing and mainstream consumers are starting to demand more flavour and craft from their beers, much like they do from their wines.”

The Brewer Guild of New Zealand, of which Renaissance brewer Soren Eriksen is a board member, have been integral in driving the craft message throughout New Zealand. Last week David Cryer, Chairman of The Brewers Guild of New Zealand, outlined how the craft segment was growing in New Zealand, whilst more commercial offerings were decreasing, he put this down to the craft brewers finally finding routes to market and distribution that had previously been the domain of the larger, more commercial brewers.

Renaissance recently appointed agents in Canada, and are continuing to work alongside partners to create a strong distribution network in Australia, locally within New Zealand and more recently the United States.

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