Pelican Brewing Company last night snapped up 10 international awards including its third time as Champion Medium International Brewery at the 2017 Australian International Beer Awards, the largest annual competition of its kind in the world judging both draught and packaged beer. Pelican pulled in honors for:

CHAMPION: Medium International Brewery
Gold: Kiwanda Cream Ale
Gold: Mother of All Storms English-style Barleywine
Silver: Beak Breaker Double IPA
Silver: MacPelican’s Wee Heavy Scotch Ale
Silver: Stormwatcher’s Winterfest English Barleywine
Silver: Father of All Tsunamis Imperial Stout Ale
Bronze: Dirty Bird Northwest IPA
Bronze: Umbrella New World IPA
Bronze: Tsunami Export Stout
Bronze: Captain of The Coast Wee Heavy Ale

The brewery has consistently been recognized by the Australian International Beer Awards and was named Grand Champion Beer there two years running in 2004 and 2005. This is the third year in a row Pelican was named Champion Medium International Brewery.

The Australian International Beer Awards are presented annually by the Royal Agricultural Society (RASV) in partnership with Federation University Australia. The Australian International Beer Awards (AIBA) is the largest competition of its kind in the Asia Pacific region and is renowned for celebrating beer and brewing excellence in Australia and around the world. The AIBA provides brewers with an opportunity to benchmark their beers against international industry standards and aims to create greater consumer awareness of the quality and diversity of beer styles available in Australia and internationally.

“Thanks to our fellow brewers and industry colleagues, especially those who serve on the judge’s panel. As a fellow brewer and judge, I know firsthand what goes into this service. As members of the brewing community, I am proud of the camaraderie and collaboration that marks our industry. I hope we never outgrow it,” said Darron Welch, founding brewmaster at Pelican Brewing Company. “The real credit for our success has to go to the team at Pelican—we remain a small, local brewery that is family owned. From the servers, bartenders and sales staff who represent our brewery every day, to the chefs and cooks who create beer cuisine and elevate both the beer and the food, to the men and women wearing the rubber boots every day. The dedication, passion for quality and attention to detail that they demonstrate every day is what we build our brewery and our brand upon.”

Born at the Beach
Pelican was born at the beach 21 years ago as a small, stand alone brewpub in a small town on the Oregon coast—Pacific City. Pacific City is still a small town, but with consistent growth and demand for its products, Pelican has recently expanded to double brewing and bottling capacity at its Tillamook facility and opened a new brewpub in Cannon Beach.

According to Welch, Pelican has always been focused on creating as wide a range of beers as possible:
· designed and brewed with innovation and craftsmanship
· showing our customers and fans the many possibilities of flavor in the world of beer
· dedicated attention to detail in the pursuit of quality and consistency

“Many years ago—it doesn’t seem so long ago actually—Pelican was fortunate now for the third time in a row 12 years later by the judges here in Australia,” says Welch.

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