We're honoured to have been awarded three golds for the second year in a row at the Concours International de Lyon! Spontaneous Manifesto 2023 (in the category Lambic & Gueuze), Fruitful Pursuits: Cherry 2023 (Lambic & Gueuze) and Substantially Complete 2023 (Sour Beer) were all judged to be gold standard by a demanding panel of judges from across Europe.
Being one of the most awarded breweries at one of the world's most prestigious competitions is a huge honour. These wins follow up international awards for the previous vintages of Substantially Complete and Spontaneous Manifesto, and bring our total gold medal haul at Concours International de Lyon to eight! Our brewers have NOT been messing around.
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.
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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.