At Blind Enthusiasm Brewing Company, we take pride in entering a wide range of beer competitions each year. Sure, we’re a competitive group—but these events also provide valuable expert feedback on the beers we work so hard to create. Because we focus on highly specialized, long-term fermentation styles, it’s always rewarding to see how they perform on the world stage.
Here’s a full look at the awards we brought home in 2025.
March 2025
One of the more unusual competitions we enter is the Concours International de Lyon, a very large European beer competition held yearly in Lyon, France. In the 2025 Concours International de Lyon, approximately 1,630 beers were judged, with entries representing 54 countries. It seems like the folks that judge beer in France really like our beers.
Our Results:
🥇 Gold – Fruitful Pursuits: Cherry 2023
🥇 Gold – Spontaneous Manifesto 2023
🥇 Gold – Substantially Complete 2023
May 2025
Run by the Brewers Association in the US, the World Beer Cup is one of the most prestigious competitions globally. The 2025 event included 8,375 entries from 1,761 breweries across 49 nations.
Our Result:
🥈 Silver – Spontaneous Manifesto 2023
June 2025
The Canadian Brewing Awards judged more than 1,600 entries from over 270 breweries nationwide.
Our Results:
🥇 Gold – Spontaneous Manifesto 2023
🥉 Bronze – Dry Hop Series – Galaxy & Saaz
August 2025
The World Beer Awards has been running for a number of years and is headquartered in the UK. They don’t publish the number of beers or countries represented in their competition but it is fairly significant judging by the geographic range of winners.
Our Results:
🥇 World’s Best Kriek – Fruitful Pursuits: Cherry 2023
🥇Gold (Canada) – Spontaneous Manifesto 2023
🥈 Silver (Canada) – Dry Hop Series – Galaxy & Saaz
October 2025
The Alberta Beer Awards, run by the Alberta Small Brewers Association, continue to highlight the best of the province’s craft beer.
Our Results:
🥈 Silver – 1923
🥉 Bronze – Spontaneous Manifesto 2023
October 2025
Organized by Culinaire magazine, this competition evaluates beverages from all categories—beer, wine, spirits, and more.
Our Recognitions:
🥈 Judges Selection – Greek Tragedy
🥈 Judges Selection – Spontaneous Manifesto 2024
🥈 Judges Selection – 1923
November 2025
One of Canada’s fastest-growing national competitions, the Canada Beer Cup received 1,800 entries from over 300 breweries this year.
Our Results:
🥈 Silver – Elder (Grand) Manifesto*
🥉 Bronze – Fruitful Pursuits: Cherry 2023
*Registered under a working title before the final release name “Grand Manifesto” was chosen.
2025 at a Glance
Several beers took home multiple awards throughout the year:
In total, we earned 16 awards in 2025—a testament to the dedication of our brewing team and to the unique, long-term beers we love making.
On October 25, 2025 we’re going to be hosting a very special day at our brewery – an Open Brew Day! It’s a free, community focused event that will allow fans of our beer to join us as we brew. Enjoy this rare opportunity to get behind the scenes and watch us brew a batch of our beer that will be fermented in barrels and eventually blended into one of our bottle releases. We’re very excited to have you join us and get behind the scenes as we brew.
We recently had the huge honor of our Fruitful Pursuits: Cherry being awarded the World’s Best Kriek at the World Beer Awards. But why don’t we call this beer a Kriek? As with all things, it’s complicated, but the main reason we don’t call Fruitful Pursuits: Cherry a Kriek is out of respect for our peers in Belgium. It’s their traditional term, and not ours.
Greg Zeschuk
Author
Greg’s career has ranged from physician, to videogame developer as founder of BioWare, and now trainee brewer. Greg is the prime enthusiast behind the Blind Enthusiasm Brewing Company.