The International Beer Cup 2025

The most historical annual beer competition in the world since 1996

The Craft Beer Association (CBA) will hold "The International Beer Cup 2025" (IBC2025) in Osaka, JAPAN on 15th - 18th of November, 2025.

The International Beer Cup 2025 Award Winner List

The International Beer Cup 2025 Category Champion List

Expert judges

The judging is conducted by a team of about 100 judges who have well tasting experience in one of the 5 major international beer competitions, brewing at commercial brewery at least 3 years, or being certified by CBA beer judge program.

120 Beer styles

The Beer Style Guidelines 2404 edition will be used as a standard of the competition. This guideline has 120 different beer styles which includes not only global standard with other international beer competitions but also our original beer styles which captures characteristics of Japan.

Feedback

Not only awarding the medals in each beer styles, all entrants will receive a feedback with many comments from judges to help the improvement of quality for future brewing.

Held in Osaka

IBC2025 will be held in Osaka City in western Japan which is known for its comedy and food culture as our 4th challenge to organize the IBC in regional cities to encourage local craft beer culture.

Mission

The mission of the IBC is to create greater consumer awareness around the world about the quality and diversity by the various beers of the world. Traditionally, most of beers in the competition have been registered by Japanese breweries. As we see expansion of Asia/Japanese craft beer market by quality and diversity, we started to open doors to beers and breweries outside Japan in recent years. In 2024, 90 judges from 24 countries/regions have evaluated 1423 beers of eligible beer styles from 20 countries/regions. You can find the result below.

With this global competition, we creates greater consumer awareness about differences and qualities by qualified judges to panel with gold, silver, and bronze awards in 120 beer styles. In this year, the IBC2025 will be expected more than 1500 beers. and will be judged by more than 90 judges from 25 countries/regions. And IBC2025 will be held in Osaka City in western Japan which is known for its comedy and food culture as our 4th challenge to organize the IBC in regional cities to encourage local craft beer culture. (Our 1st challenge in Matsumoto in 2019, 2nd challenge in Kanazawa in 2023 and 3rd challenge in Sapporo in 2024 were successful.) We believe that it helps spreading craft beer culture all over Japan.

The award ceremony will be held on Tuesday, 18th of November at "MYDOME OSAKA" in Osaka city. The Craft Beer Association, which was founded in 1994 by Ryouji Oda, is an independent organization based in Nishinomiya City, Hyogo Prefecture, Japan, with 30 years of experience in organizing successful beer competitions, events and seminars.

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