Cisk Lager, brewed by Simonds Farsons Cisk plc, has been awarded a silver medal in the lager, international style pilsner category at the Brussels Beer Challenge 2014, held last week in Leuven, Belgium.

There were 725 entries from 25 countries in this year’s edition of the competition, up from 592 last year. These included 200 Belgian beers from 79 breweries, 177 US beers and 110 Italian beers. Sixty-one international professional tasters awarded 160 medals to the winning beers.

Eugenio Caruana, head of production and head brewer at Farsons, said: “We are extremely proud that our flagship brand has once again been recognised as a world-class beer. This is testament to our brewing and operations teams’ unwavering dedication to quality and consistency and a commitment to delivering outstanding beers.”

Other prestigious awards won by Cisk Lager include gold in the UK Brewex Award in 1980, a gold award and overall winner in the Australian International Beer Awards in 1995, silver in the Brewing Industry International Awards in 2005, world’s best standard lager in the World Beer Awards 2007 and silver in the International Beer Challenge 2013.

www.brusselsbeerchallenge.com

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