The Can Can Awards is the premier beer competition focused solely on canned craft beers. In their second year, over 400 beers were entered from across the globe, including entries from both big breweries and small breweries alike.
The Can Can Awards invites beer industry professionals to blindly sample canned beers submitted from breweries and brewpubs around the world. Each beer submitted is submitted in a specific category. Our Judges Panel sips submitted beers in order to award Gold, Silver, and Bronze medals to the three beers that best represent each individual category of beers. Beers are assigned to Judges with specific and applicable experience with the particular category in question.
The Can Can Awards are trying to elevate the conversation and speed up the adoption of canned craft beer. There are still some beer styles that are seen as “not good for cans” and that should not be the case. It is our sincere hope that a can-only competition can help make a dent in that perception over time.
Medal Winners of the Can Can Awards
Golden/Blonde Ale
1. BJ’s Brewhouse, BJ’s Brewhouse Blonde (Gold)
2. Three Creeks, Knotty Blonde (Silver)
3. Black Abbey, Crossroads (Bronze)
Kolsch
1. Bier Brewery, Special Kolsch (Gold)
2. Daredevil, Daredevil Vacation (Silver)
3. Bomber, Over The Mountain (Bronze)
English-Style Pale Ale
1. McClellan’s, Wulver (Gold)
2. No Silver Awarded
3. No Bronze Awarded
American-Style Pale Ale
1. Epic, Rino APA (Gold)
2. Full Sail, Session EZ IPA (Silver)
3. Bier Brewery, PDG Pale (Bronze)
English-Style India Pale Ale
1. Sante Fe, Happy Camper (Gold)
2. Three Creeks, Hoodoo Voodoo (Silver)
3. No Bronze Awarded
West Coast-Style India Pale Ale
1. Mother Earth, Boo Koo (Gold)
2. Atlas Brew Works, Ponzi (Silver)
3. Nebraska, IPA (Bronze)
New England-Style India Pale Ale
1. Upstate, 2018 Ale (Gold)
2. Aviator, GigaBlaster (Silver)
3. Moonraker, Hazy Duz It (Bronze)
Black IPA / Cascadian Dark Ale
1. Bomber, Absolute Horizon (Gold)
2. BJ’s Brewhouse, BJ’s Hopstorm IPA (Silver)
3. No Bronze Awarded
Other American-Style India Pale Ale
1. Hops & Grain, Pellets & Powder (Gold)
2. GoodLife, Descender (Silver)
3. Three Taverns, Rowdy and Proud (Bronze)
Session India Pale Ale
1. Griffin Claw, Gateway IPA (Gold)
2. Oskar Blues, Pinner (Silver)
3. Third Street, Sainty Break (Bronze)
Extra Special Bitter
1. Sante Fe, Sante Fe Pale Ale (Gold)
2. Bomber, Bomber ESB (Silver)
3. Redhook, ESB (Bronze)
Scottish- or Scotch-Style Beer
1. Eventide, Highlander (Gold)
2. Boundary Bay, Scotch Ale (Silver)
3. Kettlehouse, Coldsmoke (Bronze)
Irish Red Ale
1. Tractor, Farmer’s Tan (Gold)
2. Noble Rey, Off The Leash (Silver)
3. No Bronze Awarded
Amber Ale
1. Station 26, American Copper (Gold)
2. Fat Bottom, Ruby (Silver)
3. BJ’s Brewhouse, BJ’s Jeremiah Red (Bronze)
Brown Ale
1. Sante Fe, Nut Brown (Gold)
2. Wibby, Moondoor (Silver)
3. Noble Rey, Baracus (Bronze)
Porter
1. Three Creeks, Fivepine Chocolate Porter (Gold)
2. Bier Brewery, Backpackin Brown (Silver)
3. Beards, Serendipity (Bronze)
Stout
1. Chapman’s, Valiant (Gold)
2. Tractor, Milk Mustachio (Silver)
3. Aviator, BlackMamba (Bronze)
German-Style Hefeweizen
1. Bier Brewery, Weizengoot (Gold)
2. Eventide, Citrus Grove (Silver)
3. BJ’s Brewhouse, BJ’s Harvest (Bronze)
Saison
1. Foolproof, La Ferme Urbaine (TIE – Gold)
2. Lift Bridge, Farm Girl (TIE – Gold)
3. Fat Bottom, Wallflower (Bronze)
Other Belgian-Style Beer
1. Blacklist Artisan Ales, Or de Belgique (Gold)
2. Fat Bottom, Ida (Silver)
3. Broken Bow, Old Split-foot (Bronze)
Belgian-Style Dubbel or Quadruple
1. Black Abbey, The Special (Gold)
2. No Silver Awarded
3. No Bronze Awarded
Belgian-Style Tripel
1. Aviator, Devils Tramping Ground (Gold)
2. No Silver Awarded
3. No Bronze Awarded
Imperial India Pale Ale
1. Bomber, Superpest (Gold)
2. Foolproof, The Depths (Silver)
3. Urban South, Finial (Bronze)
Imperial Stout
1. Bomber, Bomber Russian Imperial Stout (Gold)
2. Blacklist Artisan Ales, Dark (Silver)
3. Nebraska, Little Betty (Bronze)
Belgian-Style Witbier
1. Saint Benjamin, Wit or Witout (Gold)
2. Blacklist Artisan Ales, Classic Wit (Silver)
3. Southern Barrel, Betty Wit (Bronze)
American-Style Lager
1. Third Street, Minnesota Gold Lager (Gold)
2. Atlas, District Common (Silver)
3. Wormtown, Maxican (Bronze)
German-Style Pilsner
1. Serda, Hook, Line, & Lager (Gold)
2. Upstate, Pilsner (Silver)
3. Daredevil, Daredevil Pils (Bronze)
Marzen or Oktoberfest
1. Motorworks, V Twin (Gold)
2. Bomber, BC Beer Oktoberfest Collaboration (Silver)
3. Daredevil, Daredevil Marzen (Bronze)
Helles
1. Nashville Brewing, Nashville Original Lager (Gold)
2. Southern Barrel, Helles Lager (Silver)
3. Bomber, Skyline Lager (Bronze)
American-Style Wheat Beer
1. Third Street, Hunny Do (Gold)
2. Griffin Claw, Mr. Blue Sky (Silver)
3. Full Sail, Blood Orange Wheat (Bronze)
Herb and Spice Beer
1. Tailgate, Peanut Butter Milk Stout (Gold)
2. Due South, Mexican Standoff (Silver)
3. Station 26, Tangerine Cream (Bronze)
Out Of Bounds Beer
1. Urban South, White Oak IPA (Gold)
2. Mazama, Salud (Silver)
3. Mother Earth, Cali Creamin’ (Bronze)
American-Style Sour Ale
1. Blue Point, Beach Plum Gose (Gold)
2. Noble Rey, Bridesmaids Tears (Silver)
3. Motorworks, Bizarre Gardening Accident (Bronze)
Wood- and Barrel-aged Beer
1. Kettlehouse, Freeze Out (Gold)
2. Griffin Claw, Downtown Bourbon Brown (Silver)
3. Pigeon Hill, YGOFT (Bronze)
Shandy
1. Wibby, Lightshine Radler (Gold)
2. No Silver Awarded
3. No Bronze Awarded
Chocolate or Coffee Beer
1. Sante Fe, Java Stout (Gold)
2. Urban South, Ca Phe Vietnamese Stout (Silver)
3. Epic, Son of a Baptist (Bronze)