Judging Process
Brief guidelines for our respectful judges and participants
Judging needs its experts!
Judging panels are the responsibility of the Technical Director (previous Head Judge). The categories guidelines for the judges are based on the ABA standards. To judge your samples in the right way, it is important to submit them in the proper category and fill in the details for your beer (yeast, barrel, fruits or other ingredients, bottle conditioned, haze, unfiltered, unpasteurized), please refer to the guidelines.
The main philosophy of the competition is to award beers for their complexity in aroma and taste. Great beers at all! Beers with off-flavors or negative impression, lose points. If your beer does not fit any style of our Beer Categories according to the Competition Guidelines, then enter it in the Specialty Lager or Ale, add all the necessary –asked– details, and add a note/request for a specific new style. We consider any proposals you have.
Every sample is evaluated by each judge, who is adding notes and points for every evaluation part on the form. The feedback is sent anonymously to you, without name and points, after the awards evening. If anything negative comes to the judge’s attention, the judge’s table can ask for a second sample from this beer.
The organization, in agreement with the Technical Director, reserves the right to merge, split, or add categories.
Decisions are made only by the Technical Director, who is also responsible for the samples classification and flights as well as the judges panel and Table Captains. The Technical Director is not participating at the tasting and has the obligation to remind the philosophy of the competition to the judges.
Greek Beer Awards invites judges from abroad to ensure the integrity and transparency of the tasting process and the outcome. If you want to become a judge or suggest someone please visit the page.
Have you seen the categories?
New tasting process
Beginning in 2024 the judging process will change. One more tasting round will be added before the decision on the medals and top of each type.
All beers will be judged in the first round. Then in the second round, all beers that have been evaluated for any medal will be judged again, in order to have the finalists. In both rounds, judges will keep notes for the feedback.
If there is anything that does not allow the judges for a clear decision on the Top Lager and Top Ale, then a third round only for those beers will be held.
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SCORE 71-80
Score 81-90
Score 91-100
top aLE & Lager
Markus Raupach
Technical Director
Journalist and Photographer. Founder of the German Beer Academy, host Podcast BierTalk, author of over 60 Books, Beer Educator, International Beer Judge all over the World. President of the German Beer Consumers Union, President of the Bavarian Spirit Sommeliers Association, Board Member of the Franconian Breweries Association.
Member of the Greek Beer Awards judges since 2021.
Beer is always about people, passion and stories. The Greek Beer Awards bring all of these together: outstanding beers, dedicated brewers, inspiring conversations and the opportunity to discover the rich culture, hospitality and unique character of Greece.
6th August 2026
Leading the process
The Technical Director
The Technical Director is a well respected and experienced person, chosen by the organizers to fulfill the following responsibilities: