Article nº 1
Organizer

1.1. Gonçalo Horta Poeira e Silva (Menu Magazine), with its head office at Rua de Ambriz, nº 29-3º B 2775-032 Parede – Portugal, Legal person nª 275 992.756 and Registration in INPI – Record no. 518319 – 733004 (National Institute of Industrial Property) promotes the event entitled “World Beer Challenge – XV International Brewery Awards 2025”, open to all brands complying with the international standards.

Article nº 2
Official registration way

2.1. Participants can register through our site www.worldbeerchallenge.org.uk with the following options: online or through a paper form together with a document confirming the bank transfer.

2.2. Companies will be able to register their brands in the official site as part of the means provided for online registrations.

2.3. The organizer of the event shall not be responsible for the wrongful use by users who have virus in their computer system and diffuse it in the network.

2.4. Online records will only be officially recognized when the organization confirms the completion of the entire registration process.

2.5. Each competing beer brand must use the appropriate registration form. Photocopies of the official registration form of the Contest are allowed.

2.6. The samples submitted to the contest must be delivered by 30.03.2025.

2.7. Registrations for the Contest outside the period established have an additional fee of 25%. Additional information requests may be submitted to registration@worldbeerchallenge.org.uk  | + 351211972375  | + 351912822068.

2.8. There is no limit for the number of samples submitted to the Contest.

Article nº 3
Samples

3.1. It is necessary a volume of 1.98 litres (6×33 cl) for each brand submitted to the Contest. The samples must be dispatched in the same conditions they are retailed and will not be accepted if erased or handwritten.

3.2. All costs will be the competitor’s responsibility such as transportation, customs duties and any other cost regarding the participation process.

3.3. Samples must be sent to the following address: Gonçalo Horta Poeira e Silva ( Menu Magazine ) (World Beer Challenge – XV International Brewery Awards 2025) Secretariado Internacional Rua do Ambriz, nº 29-3º B – 2775-032 Parede – Portugal.

Article nº 4
Infractions

4.1. In case of lack of correction in the labels or back labels or in the information which does not comply with the international law or the law of the country of origin.

4.2. The participant shall be excluded from the Contest and shall not have any right to the reimbursement of the amount paid upon registration.

4.3. The outside of each box must be marked with the words World Beer Challenge – XV International Brewery Awards 2025 and must be accompanied by the corresponding laboratory analysis, issued by an officially recognized laboratory in accordance with the legislation in force in the country of origin.

4.4. Beer brands submitted to the Contest must be delivered free of any charges, bank transfer, transportation or customs services costs.
All documents must be sent in water-proof envelopes.

4.5. The samples must be sent together with document confirming payment of registration by bank transfer.

 Article nº 5
Members of the International Jury

5.1 .The members of the “World Beer Challenge – XV International Brewery Awards 2025” international jury are qualified experts from 29 countries, in a total of 211 members.

5.2. A qualified expert shall be designated for each participating country to act as a member of the international jury.

Article nº 6
Prizes

6.1. The winning beer brands shall receive the following awards: Gold, Silver, Bronze, and Recommended Medal. Certificates and medals
shall be sent by mail.

6.2. The “World Beer Challenge – XV International Brewery Awards 2025” holds the registered rights to the stamps of awards.

6.3. The digital image of the award received will be provided upon request, without any charge for the awarded company.

6.4. Reproductions, format or colour change, copies or any other form of wrongful use are punishable by law.

Article nº 7
Award Notification

7.1. The companies holding the prize-winning brands shall be notified by e-mail no later than 15 DAYS after the contest ends. Each prize-
winning brand will be awarded a certificate identifying the name of the beer, company and country, and medal. the contest ends. Each
prize-winning brand will be awarded a certificate identifying the name of the beer, company and country, and medal.

7.2.  Unlimited  Gold, Silver, Bronze  (750 Euros).

7.3. Any reproduction, unauthorized copy of the original for the improper use and use of different categories of self-adhesive gold, silver or bronze medals awarded by the organization Gonçalo Horta Poeira e Silva (Menu Magazine) is strictly prohibited. They are protected by
law (TM, INPI) at the World Beer Challenge – International Brewery Awards, which is held annually in Estoril, Portugal.
Having a penalty in the amount of the payment of an irreducible fine and fixed at 50,000 €, in addition to indemnities for direct and indirect damages, as well as court costs, the Cascais Court – Portugal being selected to resolve any legal action, renouncing any other.

Article nº 8
Payments

8.1. Payment must be made through bank transfer to Gonçalo Horta Poeira e Silva (Legal Person 275 992 756 – Portugal)

8.2. All fees regarding bank transfers and other expenses shall be paid by the participant.

8.3. Where the amount paid is not according to clause 8.1, participants will be informed by e-mail for immediate adjustment, under penalty of exclusion.

8.4 The amounts corresponding to registration costs must be transferred to the following official bank of the event:

Company: Gonçalo Horta Poeira e Silva
Bank: Millennium BCP
NIB: 0033 0000 4577 0744 4660 5
IBAN: PT50 0033 0000 4577 0744 4660 5
BIC/SWIFT: BCOMPTPL

Article nº 9
Exemption from customs duties

9.1. Exemption from customs duties is foreseen within the European Union space for the following countries: Germany, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Croatia, Denmark, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Estonia, Finland, France, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Czech Republic, Romania and Sweden.

9.2. For Non-EU countries, in order to be exempt from custom duties, we recommend the brands use Euro.

Article nº10
Program

10.1. The testing sessions will take place on 28.29.30 and 31 May, at Estoril.

Article nº 11

11.1. To solve any disputes arising from the fulfilment of the contract, the parties agree to the jurisdiction and venue of the district court of Cascais, renouncing to any other. The losing party shall incur in all expenses related to such disputes, including the fees of the legal counsellors to whom the other party may have resorted in order to assert their rights.

Article nº 12
Categories

120.1 Adambier

120.2 Aged Beer

120.3 Altbier

120.4 Alternative Fermentables Beer

120.5 Alternative Grain Beer

120.6 Alternative Sugar Beer

120.7 Amber and Brown American Beer

120.8 Amber Bitter European Beer

120.9 Amber Malty European Lager

120.10 American Amber Ale

120.11 American Barleywine

120.12 American Brown Ale

120.13 American IPA

120.14 American Lager

120.15 American Light Lager

120.16 American Pale Ale

120.17 American Porter

120.18 American Porter and Stout

120.19 American Stout

120.20 American Strong Ale

120.21 American Wheat Beer

120.22 American Wild Ale

120.23 American-Belgo-Style Ale

120.24 American-Style Amber Lager

120.25 American-Style Amber Light Lager

120.26 American-Style Amber/Red Ale

120.27 American-Style Barley Wine Ale

120.28 American-Style Black Ale

120.29 American-Style Brown Ale

120.30 American-Style Cream Ale

120.31 American-Style Dark Lager

120.32 American-Style Extra Special Bitter

120.33 American-Style Ice Lager

120.34 American-Style Imperial Porter

120.35 American-Style Imperial Stout

120.36 American-Style India Pale Ale

120.37 American-Style Lager

120.38 American-Style Light Lager

120.39 American-Style Maerzen/Oktoberfest

120.40 American-Style Malt Liquor

120.41 American-Style Pale Ale

120.42 American-Style Pilsener

120.43 American-Style Sour Ale

120.44 American-Style Stout

120.45 American-Style Strong Pale Ale

120.46 American-Style Wheat Beer

120.47 American-Style Wheat Beer With Yeast

120.48 American-Style Wheat Wine Ale

120.49 Applewine

120.50 Australasian, Latin American or Tropical-Style Light Lager

120.51 Australian- or International-Style Pale Ale

120.52 Australian Sparkling Ale

120.53 Australian-Style Pale Ale

120.54 Autumn Seasonal Beer

120.55 Baltic Porter

120.56 Baltic-Style Porter

120.57 Bamberg-Style Bock Rauchbier

120.58 Bamberg-Style Helles Rauchbier

120.59 Bamberg-Style Maerzen Rauchbier

120.60 Bamberg-Style Weiss Rauchbier

120.61 Barley Wine-Style Ale

120.62 Belgian Ale

120.63 Belgian- and French-Style Ale

120.64 Belgian Blond Ale

120.65 Belgian Dark Strong Ale

120.66 Belgian Dubbel

120.67 Belgian Golden Strong Ale

120.68 Belgian Pale Ale

120.69 Belgian Single

120.70 Belgian Tripel

120.71 Belgian-Style Blonde Ale

120.72 Belgian-Style Dark Strong Ale

120.73 Belgian-Style Dubbel

120.74 Belgian-Style Dubbel or Quadrupel

120.75 Belgian-Style Flanders Oud Bruin or Oud Red Ale

120.76 Belgian-Style Fruit Beer

120.77 Belgian-Style Fruit Lambic

120.78 Belgian-Style Gueuze Lambic

120.79 Belgian-Style Lambic

120.80 Belgian-Style Lambic or Sour Ale

120.81 Belgian-Style Pale Ale

120.82 Belgian-Style Pale Ale or Blonde Ale

120.83 Belgian-Style Pale Strong Ale

120.84 Belgian-Style Quadrupel

120.85 Belgian-Style Sour Ale

120.86 Belgian-Style Table Beer

120.87 Belgian-Style Tripel

120.88 Belgian-Style Witbier

120.89 Berliner Weisse

120.90 Berliner-Style Weisse

120.91 Berry Mead

120.92 Best Bitter

120.93 Bière de Garde

120.94 Blonde Ale

120.95 Bohemian-Style Pilsener

120.96 Braggot

120.97 Brett Beer

120.98 British Bitter

120.99 British Brown Ale

120.100 British Golden Ale

120.101 British Strong Ale

120.102 British-Style Barley Wine Ale

120.103 British-Style Imperial Stout

120.104 Brown British Beer

120.105 Brown Porter

120.106 California Common

120.107 California Common Beer

120.108 Chili Beer

120.109 Chocolate Beer

120.110 Cider with Herbs/Spices

120.111 Cider with Other Fruit

120.112 Classic English-Style Pale Ale

120.113 Classic Irish-Style Dry Stout

120.114 Classic Style Smoked Beer

120.115 Clone Beer

120.116 Coffee Beer

120.117 Commercial Specialty Beer

120.118 Contemporary Gose

120.119 Cream Ale

120.120 Cyser

120.121 Czech Amber Lager

120.122 Czech Dark Lager

120.123 Czech Lager

120.124 Czech Pale Lager

120.125 Czech Premium Pale Lager

120.126 Cuban Style Ale

120.127 Dark American Wheat Beer with Yeast

120.128 Dark American Wheat Beer without Yeast

120.129 Dark American-Belgo-Style Ale

120.130 Dark British Beer

120.131 Dark European Lager

120.132 Dark Mild

120.133 Doppelbock

120.134 Dortmunder/European-Style Export

120.135 Dortmunder/Export or German-Style Oktoberfest

120.136 Double IPA

120.137 Double Red Ale

120.138 Dry Mead

120.139 Dunkles Bock

120.140 Dunkles Weissbier

120.141 Dutch-Style Kuyt Beer

120.142 Eisbock

120.143 English Barleywine

120.144 English Cider

120.145 English IPA

120.146 English Porter

120.147 English-Style Brown Ale

120.148 English-Style Dark Mild Ale

120.149 English-Style Extra Special Bitter

120.150 English-Style India Pale Ale

120.151 English-Style Mild Ale

120.152 English-Style Pale Mild Ale

120.153 English-Style Summer Ale

120.154 European Sour Ale

120.155 European-Style Dark/Muenchner Dunkel

120.156 Experimental Beer

120.157 Experimental Mead

120.158 Export Stout

120.159 Extra Special Bitter

120.160 Festbier

120.161 Field Beer

120.162 Flanders Red Ale

120.163 Foreign Extra Stout

120.164 French- & Belgian-Style Saison

120.165 French Cider

120.166 French-Style Biere de Garde

120.167 Fresh or Wet Hop Ale

120.168 Fruit and Spice Beer

120.169 Fruit and Spice Mead

120.170 Fruit Beer

120.171 Fruit Lambic

120.172 Fruit Mead

120.173 Fruit Wheat Beer

120.174 Fruited American-Style Sour Ale

120.175 Fruited Wood- and Barrel-Aged Sour Beer

120.176 German Helles Exportbier

120.177 German Leichtbier

120.178 German Pils

120.179 German Wheat Beer

120.180 German-Style Altbier

120.181 German-Style Bock or Maibock

120.182 German-Style Doppelbock

120.183 German-Style Doppelbock or Eisbock

120.184 German-Style Eisbock

120.185 German-Style Heller Bock/Maibock

120.186 German-Style Koelsch

120.187 German-Style Leichtbier

120.188 German-Style Leichtes Weizen

120.189 German-Style Maerzen

120.190 German-Style Oktoberfest/Wiesn

120.191 German-Style Pilsener

120.192 German-Style Rye Ale

120.193 German-Style Schwarzbier

120.194 German-Style Sour Ale

120.195 German-Style Wheat Ale

120.196 Ginjo Beer or Sake-Yeast Beer

120.197 Gluten-Free Beer

120.198 Golden or Blonde Ale

120.199 Gose

120.200 Grape Ale

120.201 Grodziskie

120.202 Gueuze

120.203 Hazy IPA

120.204 Helles Bock

120.205 Herb and Spice Beer

120.206 Historical Beer

120.207 Historical Beer: Gose

120.208 Historical Beer: Kellerbier

120.209 Historical Beer: Kentucky Common

120.210 Historical Beer: Lichtenhainer

120.211 Historical Beer: London Brown Ale

120.212 Historical Beer: Piwo Grodziskie

120.213 Historical Beer: Pre-Prohibition Lager

120.214 Historical Beer: Pre-Prohibition Porter

120.215 Historical Beer: Roggenbier

120.216 Historical Beer: Sahti

120.217 Historical Mead

120.218 Honey Beer

120.219 Ice Cider

120.220 Imperial India Pale Ale

120.221 Imperial Red Ale

120.222 Imperial Stout

120.223 International Amber Lager

120.224 International Dark Lager

120.225 International Lager

120.226 International Pale Lager

120.227 International-Style Lager

120.228 International-Style Pale Ale

120.229 International-Style Pilsener

120.230 IPA

120.231 Irish Beer

120.232 Irish Extra Stout

120.233 Irish Red Ale

120.234 Irish Stout

120.235 Irish-Style Red Ale

120.236 Kellerbier

120.237 Kellerbier or Zwickelbier

120.238 Kellerbier: Amber Kellerbier

120.239 Kellerbier: Pale Kellerbier

120.240 Kölsch

120.241 Lambic

120.242 Leipzig-Style Gose

120.243 Light American Wheat Beer with Yeast

120.244 Light American Wheat Beer without Yeast

120.245 Light Lager

120.246 Märzen

120.247 Melomel

120.248 Mixed Culture Beer Beer

120.249 Mixed-Fermentation Sour Beer

120.250 Mixed-Style Beer

120.251 Monastic Ale

120.252 Muenchner-Style Helles

120.253 Munich Dunkel

120.254 Munich Helles

120.255 New England Cider

120.256 New World Cider

120.257 New World Perry

120.258 Oatmeal Stout

120.259 Old Ale

120.260 Old Ale or Strong Ale

120.261 Ordinary Bitter

120.262 Ordinary or Special Bitter

120.263 Other Belgian- and French-Style Ale

120.264 Other Belgian-Style Abbey Ale

120.265 Other Belgian-Style Ale

120.266 Other Belgian-Style Sour Ale

120.267 Other Belgian-Style Strong Specialty Ale

120.268 Other International-Style Lager

120.269 Other Smoke Beer

120.270 Other Strong Ale or Lager

120.271 Other Strong Beer

120.272 Oud Bruin

120.273 Pale American Ale

120.274 Pale American-Belgo-Style Ale

120.275 Pale Bitter European Beer

120.276 Pale Commonwealth Beer

120.277 Pale Malty European Lager

120.278 Peated Scotch Ale

120.279 Pumpkin Beer

120.280 Pyment

120.281 Rauchbier

120.282 Robust Porter

120.283 Russian-Style Imperial Stout

120.284 Rye Beer

120.285 Saison

 120.286 Schwarzbier

120.287 Scotch Ale

120.288 Scottish Ale

120.289 Scottish Export

120.290 Scottish Heavy

120.291 Scottish Light

120.292 Scottish-Style Ale

120.293 Scottish-Style Export Ale

120.294 Scottish-Style Heavy Ale

120.295 Scottish-Style Light Ale

120.296 Semi-Sweet Mead

120.297 Session Beer

120.298 Session India Pale Ale

120.299 Smoke Beer

120.300 Smoke Porter

120.301 Smoked Beer

120.302 South German-Style Bernsteinfarbenes Weizen

120.303 South German-Style Dunkel Weizen

120.304 South German-Style Hefeweizen

120.305 South German-Style Kristal Weizen

120.306 South German-Style Weizenbock

120.307 Special Bitter or Best Bitter

120.308 Specialty Beer

 120.309 Specialty Cider and Perry

120.310 Specialty Cider/Perry

120.311 Specialty Fruit Beer

120.312 Specialty IPA

120.313 Specialty IPA: Belgian IPA

120.314 Specialty IPA: Black IPA

120.315 Specialty IPA: Brown IPA

120.316 Specialty IPA: Brut IPA

120.317 Specialty IPA: Red IPA

120.318 Specialty IPA: Rye IPA

120.319 Specialty IPA: White IPA

120.320 Specialty Mead

120.321 Specialty Smoked Beer

120.322 Specialty Spice Beer

120.323 Specialty Wood-Aged Beer

120.324 Spice, Herb or Vegetable Mead

120.325 Spice, Herb, or Vegetable Beer

120.326 Spiced Beer

120.327 Spiced Mead

120.328 Standard American Beer

120.329 Standard Cider and Perry

120.330 Stone Fruit Mead

120.331 Straight Sour Beer

120.332 Strong Ale

120.333 Strong American Ale

120.334 Strong Belgian Ale

120.335 Strong Bitter

120.336 Strong British Ale

120.337 Strong European Beer

120.338 Sweet Mead

120.339 Sweet Stout

120.340 Sweet Stout or Cream Stout

120.341 Traditional German-Style Bock

120.342 Traditional Mead

120.343 Traditional Perry

120.344 Traditional Scotch Ale

120.345 Trappist Ale

120.346 Trappist Single

120.347 Tropical Stout

120.348 Unfiltered German-Style Ale

120.349 Unfiltered German-Style Lager

120.350 Vienna Lager

120.351 Vienna-Style Lager

120.352 Wee Heavy

120.353 Weissbier

120.354 Weizenbock

120.355 Wheatwine

120.356 Wild Beer

120.357 Wild Specialty Beer

120.358 Winter Seasonal Beer

120.359 Witbier

120.360 Wood- and Barrel-Aged Beer

120.361 Wood- and Barrel-Aged Dark Beer

120.362 Wood- and Barrel-Aged Pale to Amber Beer

120.363 Wood- and Barrel-Aged Sour Beer

120.364 Wood- and Barrel-Aged Strong Beer

120.365 Wood- and Barrel-Aged Strong Stout

120.366 Wood Beer

120.367 Wood-Aged Beer