Pelican Brewing Wins Big at the 2016 Australian International Beer Awards

The brewery has consistently been recognized by the Australian International Beer Awards and was named Grand Champion Beer there two years running in 2004 and 2005. This is the second year in a row Pelican was named Champion Medium International Brewery.

The Australian International Beer Awards are presented annually by the Royal Agricultural Society (RASV) in partnership with Federation University Australia.  The Australian International Beer Awards (AIBA) is the largest competition of its kind in the Asia Pacific region and is renowned for celebrating beer and brewing excellence in Australia and around the world.  The AIBA provides brewers with an opportunity to benchmark their beers against international industry standards and aims to create greater consumer awareness of the quality and diversity of beer styles available in Australia and internationally.

“All of us at Pelican Brewing Company are deeply honored to win this award at the 2016 Australian International Beer Awards—it’s amazing to be chosen from so many world class breweries,” said Darron Welch, highly-decorated brewmaster at Pelican Brewing Company. “The Australian International Beer Awards have been an integral part of our journey so far dating back to 2003 when we first entered beers—the feedback and opportunities from this event have been an immense benefit for Pelican Brewing. It has helped us make better beer, reach more customers, and spread the word about great beer.”

Pelican was born at the beach 20 years ago as a small, stand alone brewpub in a small town on the Oregon coast—Pacific City.  Pacific City is still a small town, but with consistent growth and demand for its products, Pelican has recently expanded to double brewing and bottling capacity at its Tillamook facility and opened a new brewpub in Cannon Beach. Pelican also recently won another medal at the World Brew Cup℠.

According to Welch, Pelican has always been focused on creating as wide a range of beers as possible:

· designed and brewed with innovation and craftsmanship

· showing our customers and fans the many possibilities of flavor in the world of beer

· dedicated  attention to detail in the pursuit of quality and consistency

“Many years ago—it doesn’t seem so long ago actually—Pelican was fortunate to win Grand Champion Beer two years in a row.  It is so inspiring to be recognized again eleven  years later by the judges here in Australia,” says Welch.