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)

*A minimum score of 30 is required to medal.

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 $14,761 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

Platinum Sponsors

Gold Sponsors

Silver Sponsors

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 Muddy York Brewing Co
3 – Pale Bitter Beer Godspeed Brewery	4 – Amber Lager Common Good Beer Company
5 – Dark Lager Silversmith Brewing co	6 – Bock Paniza Brewing Co
7 – Pale English Ale Granite Brewery & Tied House	8 – Scottish & Irish Ale Folly Brewpub
9 – Pale American Ale	10 – Amber & Brown American Ale
11 – English Brown Ale	12 – Porter
13 – Stout	14 – Strong Stout Rouge River Brewing Company
15 – Classic IPA Great Lakes Brewery	16 – Hazy IPA
17 – Specialty IPA Indie Alehouse	18 – Wheat & Rye Beer Paniza Brewing Co
19 – Belgian & French Ale Sonnen Hill	20 – Belgian Strong Ale
21 – Strong Ale	22 – Brett Beer Bellwoods Brewery
23 – Sour Beer	24 – Specialty Wild & Sour Beer Burdock
25 – Fruit Beer	26 – Spice / Herb / Vegetable Beer
27 – Smoke-Flavoured and Wood-Aged Beer	28 – Specialty Beer Rorschach Brewing Co.
29 – Mead Backed by Bees
31 – Traditional Cider	2 – Specialty Cider KW Craft Cider