IMMEDIATE PRESS RELEASE - 5/24/2017
Prescott Brewing Company® receives two prestigious Bronze Medal beer awards from the world-renowned Australian International Beer Awards competition. The 25th annual AIBA competition was held in May 2017 celebrating 25 years this year, and is the largest annual beer competition in the world judging both draft and package beer.
The AIBA is conducted by The Royal Agricultural Society of Victoria (RASV) and judged by a panel of high caliber experts with extensive experience across the Australian and International beer industry. According to the AIBA, the panel of over 60 international beer experts judged 1892 BEER entries across three days in Melbourne, with beers received from Australia and around the world..1063 Australian and 979 International entries.
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This early pioneer of the microbrewing industry in Arizona has been voted in the top 10 every year since 2000, and has garnered anywhere from the #6 spot in 2000 up to the #1 spot for multiple years, and #5 in this 20th Anniversary edition of the publication.
John Nielsen was in craft beer before it was cool—when craft beer was still something of an oddity on the American landscape. The self-professed “chief hose dragger” opened Prescott Brewing Co.® on the Ides of March (March 15) in the year of our beer 1994. 
