New York International Beer Competition

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SEE NYIBC 2025 WINNERS

The Result for 14th Annual New York
International Beer Competition are out!

Congratulations to all participants, especially this year’s medal winners for their
outstanding products. Don’t miss out! Explore all the incredible brands that
wowed out tastebuds this year. Check out the link below to see the full list
of winners and their amazing beers!

NYIBC 2025 WINNERS

Winners will be notified shortly

Be sure to mark your calendar for next year’s competition 15th
Annual NYIBC: March 2026

Discover the Best
of Craft Brewing

Where the world’s brewers meet New York’s discerning palates. Each entry is
judged by real trade buyers, ensuring medals reflect genuine market value—not
marketing hype. Explore this year’s standout breweries, styles, and award-
winning innovations that define excellence in the global beer scene.

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The 16th Annual New York International Wine Competition May 2025

Inviting wines from around the world to be blind tasted by top wine buyers by category and actual price. Sommeliers, Wine Bar Owners, Restaurant Beverage Directors, Distributors and Importers judging as if buying for their own business.

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The 16th Annual New York International Wine Competition April 2025

Opportunity for your spirits, Ready To Drink (RTD), Mixers and Non Alcohol Spirits by mixologists, retailers, distributors and importers by category and price.

2026

The 17th Annual New York International Cider Competition March 23rd 2025

The only international cider competition judged by real trade

What Makes This International Beer Competition Special?

The New York International Beer Competition (NYIBC) is the only international beer competition where all the judges are real trade buyers judging the beers, non alcohol beers and hard seltzer in a blind taste test by its category and actual price. The trade buyers include beer cicerones, retail store buyers, craft beer bar owners, distributors and importers. The trade buyers you want to introduce to your new product too as well as reconnect with established buyers.

We have only raised our entry fees once in 14 years because we love this industry and we want to support it. Winners will receive a physical 2″ medal, free use of the digital medal image in their marketing materials, the option of buying authorized medal stickers or medal license fee for your bottles and packaging.

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Blind Judging By Top Trade Buyers By Category And Price

Top Trade Buyers who are Beer Cicerones, Craft Beer Bars Owners, Retailers, Distributors and Importers will be judging by category and category. Judging as if buying for their business.

Winner Assets Goes To The Winners

Winners receive a 2″ physical medal, digital medal images to use free of charge in marketing materials, opportunity to buy authorized medal stickers or medal license for bottles and packaging Plus the famous Booze Pays The Bills T Shirt!

Marketing Benefits

Top winner are showcased with our media partners including our own Professor Media Group including the websites the Alcohol Professor, Cheese Professor, The Chocolate Professor and more with over 150,000 Unique Hits a month.

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Frequently
Asked Questions

Find quick answers to common questions about our competitions, judging
process, and registration. Learn how to participate, submit your entries, and
connect with our international network of beverage experts.

We are always interested in creating shipping programs with US Domestic and especially International Beer Organizations for their members to submit to the NYIBC. Please immediately contact us if you are interested in creating such a program for your organization.

Trade buyers who have daily interactions with consumers are the best people to rank products. They are constantly checking in with the market to ensure that their buying decisions line up with what the consumer wants and what will sell, based upon quality and price. Their livelihoods depend on it–a wrong buying decision means that products gather dust on shelves and have negative impacts on their bottom lines.

The Press and other non-buyers/professional tasters do not have access to this valuable information.  Our experienced trade buyers will sample a wine and either one of three things may happen.  The first is “I personally like it…but it won’t sell”.  The second is “I personally don’t like it…but it will sell”.  The third is “I like it and it will sell”. This feedback is invaluable to other buyers, who have come to rely on our awards to make their own buying decisions.

All of the beers are judged within their appropriate price range because our judges are deciding whether or not each product will sell in their local market. Price is a very big factor in determining value for the consumer, and it is information that they would consider when making a real buying decision. We wanted our judging to be as close to the real-world buying process as possible, so we provide our judges with the actual retail price of each product in order to gain the most accurate insights from them.

Our trade-only judges award medals based upon the following criteria:

  • Bronze Medal– Our judges will sell it, distribute it and or import it
  • Silver Medal– Our judges really like it and will sell it, distribute it and or import it.
  • Gold Medal– Our judges love it and will sell it, distribute it and or import it.
  • Double Gold– All of the judges on the panel award it a Gold Medal
  • Winners that stand out in their category and or from their region/country have the opportunity to win individual medals.

For more details, check out our Judging Process

After we review all the medal winners we will poll the judges for their opinion on the possibility of awarding other special awards such as: 
“Brewery of the Year”
“Distributor of the Year”
“Importer of the Year”
Though an individual medal will not be awarded unless the judging panel as first awarded it a Bronze, Silver, Gold or Double Gold Medal.