The Best of Alberta

We did this for the first time last year and had fantastic feedback! We looked across the entirety of the results from our 2025 Alberta Beverage Awards and pulled out all the top scoring beer (and non-alcoholic beer), spirits, mead, and full proof cocktails and put them into an easy to digest, clear list of the highest scoring, made in Alberta entries. 

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The competition itself is a major undertaking, and we publish the results in their entirety in our October issue, and online at culinairemagazine.ca. Our judges work exceptionally hard tasting all these entries blind – which means that they don’t know what it is they are tasting and are tasked, as beverage professionals, with finding the best products in each category, and also with an eye to what it is that the consumer is looking for. Armed with those results (and reams of data), we are proudly sharing our “Best of Alberta” for 2025.  

All these products are either Best in Class in their category, or a Judges Selection at the 2025 Alberta Beverage Awards, but more importantly, we’ve identified them by score. It’s still rather new for us to publish the scores, but we know scores out of 100 seem to resonate with consumers of fine beverages, and seem to work for those making these drinks, and wanting to share these accomplishments with their patrons, clientele, and partners. We are acutely aware of the perils of score inflation and the need to have near perfect scores of 96 or more to be considered “good” but we are completely confident in our recommendations of all these excellent, Alberta-made beverages below.