At Blind Enthusiasm Brewing Company, we tend to enter a fair number of competitions to see how our beers stack up. Sure, we’re a little competitive, but these events are also a great source of expert, structured feedback. Because we focus on a highly specialized style of beer, it shouldn’t be too surprising that we’ve been fortunate enough to earn recognition in many of the competitions we enter.
Below is a quick summary of awards we received across various competitions in calendar year 2024:
March 2024
One of the more unusual competitions we enter is the Concours International de Lyon, a major European beer competition held every year in Lyon, France. In 2024, the competition organized the tasting of 1,860 samples from 49 countries.
It seems the French judges continue to appreciate our beers. Our results:
🥇 Gold Medal – Fruitful Pursuits: Riesling 2022
🥇 Gold Medal – Fruitful Pursuits: Quince 2022
🥇 Gold Medal – Homage to the Old Ones
May 2024
The World Beer Cup is widely considered one of the most prestigious beer competitions in the world. Organized by the Brewers Association in the USA, it typically receives an extensive range of entries. In 2024 the competition saw 9,300 entries from 2,060 breweries across 50 countries.
Our result this year:
🥇 Gold Medal – Homage to the Old Ones
🥈 Silver Medal – Bière des Charentes
🥉 Bronze Medal – Spontaneous Manifesto 2022
October 2024
A mainstay in Alberta’s brewing community, the Alberta Beer Awards—run by the Alberta Small Brewers Association—continues to attract significant participation across the province.
Our results:
🥇 Gold Medal – Spontaneous Manifesto 2022
🥈 Silver Medal – Buffalo Meadows 2023
🥉 Bronze Medal – The Monolith Rosé
🥉 Bronze Medal – Mon Chester
October 2024
Another province-wide competition, the Alberta Beverage Awards (run by Culinaire magazine), features categories across all alcoholic beverages.
Our recognitions:
🥇 Best in Class – Buffalo Meadows
🥇 Best in Class – Dry Hop Series – Galaxy & Saaz
🥈 Judges Selection – Zesty Zee
🥈 Judges Selection – Substantially Complete 2022
🥈 Judges Selection – Mon Chester
Summary of 2024 Performance
We had a couple beers that earned multiple recognitions across competitions:
In total, Blind Enthusiasm Brewing Company received 15 awards/medals in 2024.
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
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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.