Taiwan Beer, produced by the Taiwan Tobacco and Wine Board, has won a silver medal in the Brewing Industry International Awards 2002, held in the UK.
The award ceremony took place Tuesday in the Guildhall of London. George T. K. Li, director of the Public Affairs Division of the ROC Representative Office in the UK, received the award on behalf of the Taiwan Tobacco and Wine Board.
Judging for the biennial competition began in February in Burton, England, but the final stage of the competition took place in London Tuesday to give the competition a higher profile. The competition is informally referred to as "the Oscars of the brewing industry."
Altogether, 683 brands of beer from 30 countries were submitted for judging. The entries were then divided into 23 classes in eight categories according to alcohol content and packaging.
The beers were graded by a panel of 27 judges, all professional beer tasters, selected from 12 countries.
In the category of bottled and canned lager, Taiwan Beer won the silver medal in Class Two for lager with an alcohol content range of 4.5 percent to 5.5 percent.
Beamish & Crawford Co of Ireland was awarded the gold medal for its Miller Genuine Draft, while the silver medal went to the Samuel Adams Boston Lager produced by Boston Beer Co in Washington State.
Japan's Kiuchi Syuzou Kaisha Co captured a gold medal in the specialty beer category of draught and packaged beer with its Hitachino Nest Beer White Ale.
According to judges who evaluated the winning beers, the brews were judged on four criteria: appearance (color and clarity), aroma, taste and commercial acceptability.
Asked how the commercial worth of a beer was determined, one judge explained that a consumer may find that a particular beer tastes good but may not want to have a second glass.
It is the desire to want to drink more that makes the beer more commercially acceptable, he said.
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