QUALITY SEAL FOR BEERS
UNLIKE THE USUAL BEER COMPETITIONS, THE FINEST BEER SELECTION IS
NOT A COMPETITION IN WHICH BEERS ARE COMPARED WITH OTHER
BEERS IN EACH CATEGORY. THE CONCEPT IS RATHER A SENSORY TEST OF
EXCELLENCE.
Each beer is individually analyzed aromatically and evaluated based on a transparent
100-point scheme. Only the best beers of a year with a Finest Beer Score of 90 points or
more make it into the exclusive circle of the Finest Beer Selection.
The tasting and thus the choice of the Finest Beer Selection is carried out each year by
an international jury of qualified experts in a blind tasting.
Behind the concept are Doemens and Meininger Verlag, two absolute experts with
several years of experience in analyzing and evaluating beers and in organizing highly
professional beer tastings.
The Finest Beer Selection, the reliable quality compass for breweries, the trade and
for all beer consumers.
JURY RATING –
FREE IN THE HEAD
Your style information serves as a sensory guide for the jury. With a high level of technical expertise, the taster groups describe and evaluate the beers, freed from guideline values and style guide discussions.
YOUR BEER –
OUR BENCHMARK
Instead, the benchmark for the tasting is your self-assessment of which style the beer corresponds to. Assign it to an established style when registering, or register it individually as a creative brewing experiment.
STYLE GUIDE OUT –
FOCUS ON QUALITY IN
The Finest Beer Selection does it without a style guide. We believe that rigid category descriptions and analytical thresholds are detrimental to unbiased tasting focused on beer quality.
FINEST BEER EXPERT JURY
Proven beer experts with many years of tasting experience analyze the beers aromatically and evaluate them - individually, singularly and without comparison with competitors.
FINEST BEER PROFILE
On the basis of numerous descriptors matched to each beer style, the jury creates an aroma profile in the form of a spider web diagram: the Finest Beer Profile.
FINEST BEER SCORE
Based on the proven 100-point tasting pattern, each beer receives its individual rating, the Finest Beer Score, which shows the classification in a transparent and comprehensible way.
FINEST BEER
SELECTION
All samples with a Finest Beer Score of 90 or more points are included in the selection of the best beers of a year.
USER ACCOUNT
After unlocking the registration (end-April), you can create an user account with all important data on your brewery in the first step.
BEER REGISTRATION
You can then register your beers one after the other. In a few clicks you can either register for the appopriate beer style or for your creative brewing experiment via an individual input.
PAYMENT
Pay immediately after the beer recording using a credit card or PayPal or have an invoice created, which you subsequently pay by bank transfer.
SHIPMENT
Send your samples between
April 22nd and May 16th, 2025 to
Doemens Academy GmbH,
Finest Beer Selection,
Lohenstraße 3, 82166 Gräfelfing.
Depending on the container size, 10 samples (< 0.5 l), 8 samples (0.5 l) or 6 samples (> 0.5 l) are required per beer.
CORRECTNESS CHECK
After receiving the beers, the organization team of the Finest Beer Selection checks the beer data recorded for correctness. If you have any questions, feel free to contact the team.
FINEST BEER EXPERT JURY
The carefully selected, staffed internationally Finest Beer Expert jury is made up of renowned beer experts with high subject expertise and tasting experience. The jury is intensely trained on the concept and tasting sheets.
TASTING
Each beer is described, analyzed and evaluated in a blind tasting by a jury group (and not in ranking comparison with other beers) in appearance, flavour and taste.
FINEST BEER PROFILE
The blind tasting takes place in two stages: First an aroma profile is created in the form of a spider web diagram: the Finest Beer Profile. It uses individual descriptors that match the specified beer style.
FINEST BEER SCORE
In the second step, an assessment value, the Finest Beer Score, is determined on the basis of a 100-point pattern.
RESULT
You will receive your result by email in a timely manner after the result evaluation. The result contains the objective tasting results including your individual Finest Beer profile, the Finest Beer Score and, if necessary, the award certificate.
FINEST BEER SELECTION
All beers with a Finest Beer Score of 90 or higher are included in the Finest Beer Selection and proudly carry their medal on the bottle or can.
COSTS
| Per beer registration with early bird discount: | 230 € |
| Per beer registration without early bird discount: | 260 € |
| Per beer with registration of min. 3 beers with early bird discount: |
200 € |
| Per beer with registration of min. 3 beers without early bird discount: |
230 € |
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All prices net, German brewers plus VAT, brewers from EU without VAT if tax ID is recorded.
Brewers outside EU without VAT upon presentation of appropriate proof of entrepreneurship.
