Nine Island breweries are on the Canadian Brewing AwardsB次元官网网址� 2022 winners list, with beer slingers up and down the Island winning.

Awards were given in 58 different beer categories based on judgesB次元官网网址� blind taste testing of the beers.

Three Victoria breweries won four awards between them: Lighthouse Brewing (bronze for European-style lager and bronze for dry stout), Moon Under Water (silver for specialty IPA) and Whistle Buoy Buoy Brewing Company (silver for historic/regional beers).

Up Island, two breweries from Port Alberni won. Twin City Brewing Company won two silvers (traditional German-style and English-style pale ale) and gold in the smoked beer category while Dog Mountain Brewing won two bronze awards (for Belgian-style dubbel or quadrupel and Belgian-style abbey ale/pale ale). Two Courtenay breweries also picked up awards. Gladstone Brewing Company won a silver (for cream ale) and bronze (for session ale) while Ace Brewing won a bronze award (for North American-style pale ale).

In Sooke, Sooke Brewing Company picked up bronze for Belgian-style strong specialty ale and an honourable mention in the European-style amber to dark lager category while Sooke Oceanside Brewery took bronze in the Baltic porter category. Sooke Brewing Company also won its first gold award in the barley wine-style ale category B次元官网网址� having won silver in that category last year.

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Adair said theyB次元官网网址檙e always making changes to the beer to try and improve it, including sourcing the barrels locally this year.

The brewing awards are also having an increasingly local focus on the Island, which is good to see, said Adair.

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