GABS Hottest 100 Craft Beers 2021 Results
3rd Mar 2022
Australia's biggest annual craft beer poll into Australia's favourite craft beer has once been run and the results are in! Bentspoke's Crankshaft IPA has once more taken out first place, making it two years in a row in the number 1 spot.
Bentspoke Brewing Co's Crankshaft American IPA held off Balter Brewing's XPA which took the title in 2017 and 2018 and was named this year's second-placed brew, and Stone & Wood Pacific Ale, which came third and was a previous winner of the 2011, 2015, 2016 and 2019 editions.
Bentspoke had a great showing in the polls with five beers in the top 100 list in total, including twelfth for its Barley Griffin Australian Pale Ale, 41st for its Sprocket American IPA, 45th for its Cluster 8 Imperial IPA and 91st for its Red Nut Red IPA.
Richard Watkins head brewer and co-owner said the team at Bentspoke were "blown away that our small independent brewery from Canberra can take Crankshaft to the number one spot in Australia's biggest beer poll. Crankshaft holds a very special place in our hearts as one of our original beers on tap when we first opened in Canberra in 2014. We are thrilled with the support for Crankshaft from Canberra and around Australia."
The poll run by GABS, or the annual festival also known as the 'Great Australian Beer SpecTAPular' is a people's choice poll decided by beer-lovers around the country. Now in its 14th year, over 40,000 people took part, a new record.
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GABS HOTTEST 100 AUSSIE CRAFT BEERS OF 2021:
12 beers made the top 100 for the first time with 57 breweries in total making the top 100. If you're particularly keen on either, GABS has also released rundowns of the Hottest 100 New Craft Beers and the Hottest 100 Indie Craft Beers (those owned independently) plus the next 100 from the main countdown.
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THE FULL LIST.
- Bentspoke Crankshaft
- Balter XPA
- Your Mates Larry
- Stone & Wood Pacific Ale
- Black Hops G.O.A.T
- Better Beer Zero Carb
- Capital XPA
- Ballistic Beer Hawaiian Haze
- Capital Coast Ale
- Young Henrys Newtowner
- Coopers Original Pale Ale
- BentSpoke Barley Griffin
- Balter Hazy
- Bridge Road Beechworth Pale Ale
- Beerfarm Royal Haze
- Pirate Life South Coast Pale Ale
- Gage Roads Single Fin
- KAIJU! KRUSH! Tropical Pale Ale
- Black Hops East Coast Haze
- Heaps Normal Quiet XPA
- Heads of Noosa Japanese Lager
- Brick Lane One Love Pale Ale
- Little Creatures Pale Ale
- Moon Dog Old Mate
- Philter XPA
- Mountain Goat Very Enjoyable Beer
- Feral Biggie Juice
- Brookvale Union Ginger Beer
- 4 Pines Pacific Ale
- Big Shed Boozy Fruit
- Hawke's Patio Ale
- Bright Alpine Lager
- Grifter Pale Ale
- Blackflag Rage Juicy Pale Ale
- Green Beacon Wayfarer
- Stomping Ground Gipps St. Pale Ale
- Akasha Hopsmith IPA
- Dainton Blood Orange NEIPA
- Revel Strawberries & Cream Soul Ale
- Coopers Sparkling Ale
- BentSpoke Sprocket
- Capital Hang Loose Juice Blood Orange ENIPA
- Coopers XPA
- Your Mates Sally
- BentSpoke Cluster 8
- Black Hops Neverland
- Balter Eazy Hazy
- Ballistic Hawaiian Haze IPA
- Capital West Coast NEIPA
- Coopers Pacific Pale Ale
- Bodriggy Speccy Juice
- Colonial Pale Ale
- Grifter Serpents Kiss
- Sunday Cryotherapy
- Deeds Juice Train
- 10 Toes Pipeline Pale Ale
- Burleigh Bighead No Carb Lager
- Hop Nation J-Juice
- Range Lights + Music
- Black Hops Hop Swap
- Black Hops Pale Ale
- Your Mates Macca
- Balter Captain Sensible
- Capital Trail Pale Ale
- Hawke’s Brewing Co Hawke’s Lager
- Burleigh Twisted Palm
- One Drop Double Vanilla Custard Pancake Imperial Nitro
- Cronulla Next Level XPA
- Sobah Pepperberry IPA
- Jetty Road Pale Ale
- Brouhaha Strawberry Rhubarb Sour Ale
- Stone & Wood Cloud Catcher
- Blackman's Juicy Banger
- 4 Pines 4 Pines Pale Ale
- Brick Lane Sidewiner Hazy Pale Ale
- Hop Nation Rattendhund
- Sunday Road Enigma Ale
- Otherside Anthem IPA
- Bad Shepherd Peanut Butter Porter
- Ballistic Beer Mexican Hot chocolate Stout
- Black Hops Hornet
- Little Creatures Pacific Ale
- Your Mates Eddie
- Dainton Jungle Juice
- Bodriggy Utropia Pale Ale
- Young Henrys The Unifier
- Hawkers West Coast IPA
- Mismatch Session Ale
- Gage Roads Side Track All Day XPA
- Little Bang Face Inverter
- BentSpoke Red Nut
- Tumut River Ginja Ninja
- Eumundi Alcoholic Ginger Beer
- Deeds Once More Into the Fray
- Akasha Mosaic IPA
- Ballistic Low Ha
- Capital Rock Hopper IPA
- Wayward Raspberry Berliner Weisse
- Willie the Boatman Nectar of the Hops
- Balter CryoHaze