Pelican Brewing Company takes Bronze at 2017 Brussels Beer Challenge

From Pelican Brewing:

Tsunami Stout triumphs the second year in a row among Belgian beer experts and judges

Pacific City, Oregon (November 22, 2017)—Proost! Pelican Brewing Company has received another bronze medal for its multi-decorated Tsunami Export Stout at the Brussels Beer Challenge, an international beer competition providing a unique opportunity for beer producers to compete with the best international and Belgian brewers. This is the fifth medal for Tsunami Stout at the Brussels Beer Challenge.

According to organizers of the international competition, a panel of 80 internationally renowned beer experts judge 1,250 beers from all corners of the world. The participating beers are subdivided into categories based on origin, typology and style, and are then tasted. At the end of the tasting the best beers in each category are awarded with a gold, silver or bronze medal.

Like the force of nature for which it is named, Tsunami Stout delivers a sensory blast with its jet black color and dark seductive aroma. Roasted malts and unmalted barley give this full-bodied brew its dense creamy head and distinct dark chocolate and cappuccino flavors that swell to a clean, rounded malty finish. Ingredients include pale ale malt, flaked barley, chocolate malt, Black Patent malt, roasted barley, Magnum hops, Willamette hops, pure local water and pure ale yeast.

· ABV:7%

· IBU:45

· Plato:16.8°

"The variety and complexity of Belgian beers is world renowned, and for one of our oldest and most-decorated year-round beers to be recognized by Belgian brewers and beer experts now for the fifth time is a distinct honor, " says Darron Welch, founding brewmaster at Pelican Brewing Company.

About Pelican Brewing Company

Pelican Brewing Company was founded in 1996 by Jeff Schons and Mary Jones in Pacific City with Oregon’s only oceanfront brewpub. Celebrating its 21^st year, the brewing company has created masterpieces like Kiwanda Cream Ale, India Pelican Ale, MacPelican’s Scottish Ale, Tsunami Stout and Doryman’s Dark. With the vision, creativity and brewing expertise of founding brewmaster Darron Welch, Pelican Brewing has won over 450 awards including a Silver Medal at the 2016 Great American Beer Festival, 2014 World Beer Cup© Champion Small Brewing Company and Brewmaster of the Year. Pelican Brewing currently distributes 22oz bottles, 12oz bottles in 6-packs, a new mixed 12-pack, and 50 liter and 20 liter kegs via a network of distributors in Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Utah, and Hawaii. The company operates brewing and brewpub facilities in Pacific City, Tillamook and Cannon Beach.