Windhoek Draught bags German beer award

08 December 2016 – The favourite beer of many Namibians, Windhoek Draught was recognised for its taste and quality at a recent European event where 44 countries entered their beer products for adjudication by an international panel.

Windhoek Draught received a bronze medal at the annual European Beer Star Awards, held early in November in Nuremberg, Germany.

Windhoek Draught bagged the bronze medal in the category ‘European Style Mild Lager’.

The Head Brewer at Namibia Breweries Ltd, Christian Müller, said “Only one beer of the same category is allowed to enter per brewery. Therefore only Windhoek Draught participated this year. Annually we rotate amongst Windhoek Lager, Tafel Lager and Windhoek Draught. The European Beer Star Awards is one of the most coveted awards on the international brewing scene. Every year, visitors to the world’s leading brewing industry trade show are given the opportunity to discover for themselves the excellent quality of the award-winning beers. The winners of the gold, silver and bronze medals were selected by a 124-member expert jury from 2,103 beers in 57 categories.”

The tasting was done at the Doemens Brewing Academy in Gräfelfing near Munich, Bavaria.

The competing beers came from Australia, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Cambodia, Canada, China, Colombia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Great Britain, Greece, Guatemala, Hungary, Iceland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Latvia, Malta, Moldavia, Myanmar, Namibia, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Russia, San Marino, Slovakia, South Korea, Sweden, Switzerland, Spain, Taiwan, Thailand, Ukraine and the USA.