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Custom Medals
The winners from each category will be awarded a Gold, Silver, or Bronze medal engraved with your Name, Entry Name, Competition Year, and Award Category Name!
Additionally, each medal winner will be awards with gift cards and/or prizes as provided by our fabulous sponsors!
Major Awards
In addition to the medals and prizes above, the following special major awards will be crowned:
Best of Show – Awarded to the single best beer entry, as determined in a final judging round with the best beers from the whole competition. Second and third BOS winners will also receive special prizes.
Toronto Brewer of the Year – Awarded to the GTA Brews entrant with the highest medal point count from beer categories. (Gold = 3 pts, Silver = 2 pts, Bronze = 1 pt)
Jon Mains Award (Top Overall Brewer) - Awarded to the top overall entrant with the highest medal point count from beer categories. (Gold = 3 pts, Silver = 2 pts, Bronze = 1 pt)
Mead Maker of the Year – Awarded to the single best mead entry
Cider Maker of the Year – Awarded to the single best cider entry, by score
*A minimum score of 30 is required to medal.
Sponsors and Prizes
Click Here to see Brew Slam 2019 Sponsors and Prizes.
Thank you to our wonderful sponsors for helping to make this competition possible! We work with our sponsors to supply prizes for our winners, volunteers, and even participants. The current prize tally is:
Over $7,600 in prizes and volunteer perks, and counting!
More sponsors will be added as the competition approaches! If you are interested in sponsoring our competition please email: sponsorship@gtabrews.ca
Title Sponsor
 $15 gift card for each Silver Medalist |
Platinum Sponsors
 CF5 Fermenter |  |
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Gold Sponsors
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Silver Sponsors
 Gift Cards |  Gift Cards |
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Bronze Sponsors
Pro-Am Sponsors:
Pro-Am: Brew a collaboration beer, with your name on it, at the sponsoring brewery
Toronto Brewer of the Year (TBOY): Described above in Major Awards
Medal Category Sponsors:
Brewer for a Day: Hang out at the sponsoring brewery for a brew day, pick their brains, and pick up some tricks.
Click Here to see which styles map to each of the Brew Slam 2023 Award Categories.
| 1 - Light Lager | 2 - Pale Malty Beer |
| 3 - Pale Bitter Beer | 4 - Amber Lager |
| 5 - Dark Lager | 6 - Bock |
| 7 - Pale English Ale | 8 - Scottish & Irish Ale |
| 9 - Pale American Ale | 10 - Amber & Brown American Ale |
| 11 - English Brown Ale | 12 - Porter |
| 13 - Stout | 14 - Strong Stout |
| 15 - Classic IPA | 16 - Hazy IPA |
| 17 - Specialty IPA | 18 - Wheat & Rye Beer |
| 19 - Belgian & French Ale | 20 - Belgian Strong Ale |
| 21 - Strong Ale | 22 - Brett Beer |
| 23 - Sour Beer | 24 - Specialty Wild & Sour Beer |
| 25 - Fruit Beer | 26 - Spice / Herb / Vegetable Beer |
| 27 - Smoke-Flavoured and Wood-Aged Beer | 28 - Specialty Beer |
| 29 - Traditional Mead | 30 - Specialty Mead |
| 31 - Traditional Cider | 32 - Specialty Cider |