The 2025 World Beer Cup winners were announced on Thursday, May 1st. I share the list of Washington winners and Oregon winners in this story, along with other info. Washington and Oregon breweries secured nearly 50 medals this year, earning 24 medals each. And that’s not including the medals awarded for cider: Oregon cidermakers killed it this year. You can see the complete results here. (Above: Icicle Brewing celebrates a win at the 2025 World Beer Cup, a bronze medal for its Premium Pilsner.)
Washington Winners
Oregon Winners
Competition Stats
Most-Winning States
Most-Entered Categories
Oregon Dominates Cider
How Did Kendall Perform This Year?
Yay For Me! And Them
On a personal note, I suffer from impostor syndrome. I found this year’s results affirming on an individual level.
- I regularly tell people that No-Li Brewhouse’s Wrecking Ball is a vastly underrated imperial stout. This year, it earned a gold medal.
- Icicle Brewing’s Premium Pilsner is a regular visitor to my beer fridge and is one of my go-to beers. It earned a bronze medal in a hotly contested category.
- When writing for Seattle Magazine some years ago, I named Seapine Brewing’s Rainbow Suspenders the best beer in the city—or something like that. It won a medal this year.
- Though I’m not alone in thinking this, Three Ryes Men from Reuben’s Brews is probably one of the best beers I’ve ever tasted. It raises the hairs on my arm and makes me a bit verklempt. It won another medal this year.
- I was raised in Bellevue. Two of my hometown breweries earned medals this year. Bellevue Brewing and Resonate Brewing! Representing a place I once called a barren wasteland of beerlessness. Yay for Bellevue!
2025 World Beer Cup Stats
A panel of 265 judges from 37 countries evaluated 8,375 entries from 1,761 breweries and cideries across 49 nations. The judges awarded 349 awards in 112 style categories. The judges determined that no beer earned gold medal honors in some categories. Most of the medals were awarded to breweries in the USA, but many went to breweries in other nations. Japan had an outstanding showing this year with 13 medals, including some in hotly contested categories. See the complete results here.
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Most-Winning States
Understandably, California won the most medals. That state has nearly twice as many breweries as any other state, and many of those breweries are great. Oregon and Washington tied this year, so no bragging rights were awarded.
- California 74 medals
- Oregon 24 medals
- Washington 24 medals
- Colorado 21 medals
Most-Entered Categories
Once again, the IPAs received the most entries. It’s nice to see that one of the Pilsener categories and another lager category made the top five this year.
- Category: Juicy or Hazy India Pale Ale, 290 entries
- Category: West Coast-Style India Pale, 253 entries
- Category: American-Style India Pale Ale, 208 entries
- Category: German-Style Pilsener, 186 entries
- Category: Hoppy Lager, 155 entries
Washington Winners
Washington brewers brought home 24 medals. I list them all below. But first, Washington took home two of the three medals in the following categories:
- American-Style Imperial Stout category (Volholl Brewing and Project 9 Brewing)
- International-Style Pilsener (Victor 23 Brewing and Icicle Brewing)
- Export Stout (Barrel Mountain Brewing and Stoup Brewing)
Reuben’s Brews, Robust Porter
Category: Robust Porter
Silver Medal
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Georgetown Brewing, Gusto Crema
Category: Coffee Beer
Bronze Medal
Seapine Brewing, Rainbow Suspenders
Category: Experimental IPA
Bronze Medal
Fair Isle Brewing, Bobbi
Category: Mixed-Culture Brett Beer
Silver Medal
Lumberbeard Brewing, Anniversary 5
Category: Wood- and Barrel-Aged Strong Beer
Silver Medal
Victor 23 Brewing, Birkebeinerpils
Category: International-Style Pilsener
Gold Medal
Icicle Brewing, Icicle Premium Pilsner
Category: International-Style Pilsner
Bronze Medal
Bellevue Brewing, 1882 Lager
Category: American-Style Pilsener
Silver Medal
Cloudburst Brewing, Ebb and Flow
Category: American-Style Amber Lager
Silver Medal
Formula Brewing, Loyal to the Soil
Category: New Zealand-Style IPA
Silver Medal
Reuben’s Brews, Three Ryes Men
Category: Barleywine-Style Ale
Silver Medal
Four Generals Brewing, Gose
Category: Gose
Silver Medal
Wander Brewing, Champagne Toast
Category: Berliner-Style Weisse
Gold Medal
Dru Bru, Hefeweizen
Category: German-Style Hefeweizen
Bronze Medal
Resonate Brewing, Lithium
Category: German-Style Altbier
Gold Medal
Silver City Brewery, Ridgetop Red
Category: Irish-Style Red
Gold Medal
Grains of Wrath Brewing, Punchface Champion
Category: Imperial IPA
Gold Medal
Stemma Brewing, First Amber
Category: American-Style Amber/Red
Silver Medal
Cloudburst Brewing, Peaked in High School
Category: Strong Red Ale
Gold Medal
Project 9 Brewing, Lights Out
Category: American-Style Imperial Stout
Bronze Medal
Volholl Brewing, Thunderbolt Stout
Category: American-Style Imperial Stout
Silver Medal
Silver City Brewery, The Magnificent Scotch Ale
Category: Scotch Ale
Silver Medal
Barrel Mountain Brewing Starway
Category: Export Stout
Gold Medal
Stoup Brewing – Capitol Hill, Stoup Export Stout
Category: Export Stout
Bronze Medal
No-Li Brewhouse, Wrecking Ball Imperial Stout
Category: British-Style Imperial Stout
Gold Medal
Victor 23 Brewing, Coconspirator
Category: German-Style Doppelbock or Eisbock
Bronze Medal
Oregon Winners
Oregon breweries took home 24 medals. Below is the list of Oregon’s winning breweries and beers. Okay, Breakside, we get it. You are one of the best breweries in the entire nation. Now you’re just showing off. Breakside won six medals: three gold, two silver, and one bronze.
Von Ebert Brewing, Clubhaus Lager
Category: American Light Lager
Gold Medal
Sunriver Brewing Co., Fuzztail
Category: American Wheat Beer
Gold Medal
Breakside Brewery & Taproom, Breakside Spring Day
Category: American-Belgo-Style Ale
Gold Medal
Breakside Brewery & Taproom, Breakside Cheat Codes
Category: American-Style Black Ale or American-Style Stout
Gold Medal
ColdFire Brewing – Production, American Stout
Category: American-Style Black Ale or American-Style Stout
Silver Medal
Breakside Brewery & Taproom, Breakside IPA
Category: American-Style India Pale Ale
Bronze Medal
Wild Ride Brewing, Cole’s Light Lager
Category: American-Style Lager
Silver Medal
Breakside Brewery & Taproom, Breakside Woodlawn Pale Ale
Category: American-Style Pale Ale
Silver Medal
Breakside Brewery, Breakside Hello My Alien
Category: Australian-Style Pale Ale
Gold Medal
Monkless Belgian Ales, Dubbel or Nothing
Category: Belgian-Style Dubbel
Silver Medal
Oregon City Brewing Co., Cactus Makes Perfect
Category: Berliner-Style Weisse
Bronze Medal
Breakside Brewery, Breakside All Yellow
Category: Chili Beer
Silver Medal
Bend Brewing Co., Built to Chill
Category: Contemporary American-Style Lager
Bronze Medal
Old Town Brewing, Shanghai’d IPA
Category: English Ale
Bronze Medal
Hopworks Brewery, Velvet Organic ESB
Category: Extra Special Bitter
Bronze Medal
Deschutes Brewery – PDX Pub, Hachimitsu Mai
Category: Honey Beer
Gold Medal
pFriem Family Brewers, Cold IPA
Category: Hoppy Lager
Gold Medal
Wayfinder Beer, Secret Secret
Category: International Dark Lager
Silver Medal
pFriem Family Brewers, Pale
Category: International Pale Ale
Silver Medal
pFriem Family Brewers, Hazy IPA
Category: Juicy or Hazy Strong Pale Ale
Gold Medal
Deschutes Brewery, Kirkland Signature Helles Lager
Category: Munich-Style Helles
Silver Medal
StormBreaker Brewing, Opacus Oatmeal Stout
Category: Oatmeal Stout
Silver Medal
ColdFire Barrel House, Saison Lily
Category: Session Beer or Belgian-Style Table Beer
Bronze Medal
Deschutes Brewery – PDX Pub, Sensationator
Category: Wood- and Barrel-Aged Beer
Bronze Medal
2 Towns Ciderhouse Rules
This year, the World Beer Cup included five categories for cider. Of the 15 medals awarded for cider, nine went to Oregon cider producers. Two Towns Ciderhouse won a whopping six medals. Oregon swept the tannic category. A big year for Oregon cider!
2 Towns Ciderhouse, 2019 Pommeau
Category: Experimental, Barrel-Aged or Specialty Cider
Gold Medal
2 Towns Ciderhouse, Imperial Bad Apple – Westward Whiskey Barrel Cider
Category: Experimental, Barrel-Aged or Specialty Cider
Bronze Medal
2 Towns Ciderhouse, Raspberry Cosmic Crisp
Category: Fruited Cider
Gold Medal Medal
Portland Cider Co., Original Gold
Category: No/Low-Tannin Cider
Gold Medal
2 Towns Ciderhouse, Cosmic Crisp
Category: No/Low-Tannin Cider
Silver Medal
2 Towns Ciderhouse, 14th Anniversary
Category: No/Low-Tannin Cider
Bronze Medal
2 Towns Ciderhouse, 2023 Cidre Bouché
Category: Tannic Cider
Gold Medal
Portland Cider Co., English Pub
Category: Tannic Cider
Silver Medal
Bauman’s Cider, Kingston Black
Category: Tannic Cider
Bronze Medal
